Our Children’s ED uses a triage system to ensure the sickest or most severely injured children are seen first.

This can mean your child may have to wait longer to be assessed by a clinician.

Check out our symptom checker for useful info: belfasttrust.hscni.net/symptom-checker

Our new digital system allows staff that are caring for you to access your information at the touch of a button.

This means that staff will be using more devices, including mobile phones, to access and update your records.

For more info, visit: bit.ly/3wOM9Go

Across the Trust, many teams have been taking part in the Bedded Cutover process, so that all patient data is transferred onto the digital system before 6th June 💻📱

Here are nurses, Orla and Julie, from our Acute Mental Health Inpatient Centre, explaining what this means for👇

As we launch encompass, our staff will be adjusting to the new digital system and you may notice more activity across our sites.

To help you as a patient, service user or visitor, we have informative signage, and staff may answer any questions.

Visit: bit.ly/3wOM9Go

Patient safety is at the forefront of the encompass programme.

Nicky explains how they’re supporting staff to ensure patient safety during go-live and explains how the new system improves safety for patients and staff.

#encompassNI

Our Corporate Comms team have been busy this week helping with our encompass Go-Live preparations.

With 800 boxes carried, 9,000 bags packed and ready, and 9,000 t-shirts sorted, the team have certainly got their steps up this week

#encompassNI #BeingBelfast

Carers Week 2024 is fast approaching.

Our Carer Support Service have created are a great programme of events and activities scheduled for carers across the week, focusing on health, are aware of or support through your work.

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Our Children’s Emergency Department is currently extremely busy. Please only attend if your child has a serious medical emergency.

If your child does not need urgent medical attention consult our symptom checker below for expert advice and guidance.

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We understand that when your child gets sick, it's unsettling.

That's why our Children's Symptom Checker is here to help you, before attending the Emergency Department 🚨

Find out more: bit.ly/4azyRM9

We anticipate significant disruption to our services due to industrial action on Wednesday 22 May and Thursday 23 May.

You should attend your scheduled appointment unless you have been directly contacted to advise it will be rescheduled.

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Our encompass Nursing and Midwifery Professional Lead, Deirdre is supporting our staff in the run up to Go Live.

Staff are benefiting from practice sessions available to them helping them become more familiar with the system.

#encompassNI

'We're all in this together' 💜

We are continuing to put in a lot of hard work behind the scenes to ensure our transition from paper to electronic records is seamless.

We're really grateful to all our colleagues regionally & from other Trusts who are supporting us #encompassNI

⭐️Staff supporting staff

🌟Our staff are putting their shoulders to the wheel as we head towards #encompassni Go-Live!

💫Here Adele explains the support her colleagues in HR are providing to staff through Help Hubs to ensure an easy transition on 6th June.

💜Bedded Cutover is the transfer of health data of hospital inpatients from their paper records onto the new electronic patient record in the hours and days before #encompassni launches.

👏Thank you to our colleagues across all Trusts for their help during our dry run last week!

🟣Staff are attending training ahead of #encompassni Go-Live and helping to support a smooth transition.

🟪Jemy Baldiovino Velasco, an Operating Theatre Practitioner provides feedback as he completes his training ahead of 6th June! #FeedbackFriday

The Department of Health has advised patients that the health service will experience widespread disruption next week due to a two day strike

➡️ health-ni.gov.uk/news/statement…

Normal car parking charges will resume at hospital sites in Northern Ireland from Friday 17 May.

➡️Read more here: health-ni.gov.uk/news/hospital-…

📢 Shout out to all our staff living the Trust values as we count down to encompass go-live.

#ThankYouThursday

✨Congratulations to our Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit who recently received the 'Critical Care Innovation' Award at the recent NI Healthcare Awards.

💫Their 'RopeBridge' Protocol reduced ICU length of stay for patients and reduced the number of physiotherapy referrals!

District Nurses across the Trust have been taking part in encompass training ensuring they are ready for the Go-Live on 6th June 📱💻

Moving from paper to digital records will ensure that all patient data will be in one place.

Listen to District Nurses Maura and Leah 👇