Royal Oldham Hospital

Contact Details
  • Address: The Royal Oldham Hospital, Rochdale Road, Oldham, OL1 2JH
  • ICU Department Contact Details - 07977 663906
  • Faculty Tutor Name:  Dr N. Ravishankar - nagaraja.ravishankar@nca.nhs.uk 
Unit Structure
  • Number of Beds: 22                    
  • Number of Admissions per year: Level 3: 359      Level 2: 415
  • Percentage of Elective vs Emergency Admissions: 9.2 vs 21.8
Overview of Case Mix within the Unit:
  • General medicine 342
  • General surgery 182
  • Vascular surgery 91
  • Colorectal surgery 45
  • Trauma & orthopaedics 20
  • Gastroenterology 18
  • Clinical haematology 10
  • Cardiology 8 
  • Othery 41
  • There is no split site working within this Unit
Research projects being undertaken within this Unit:
  • Remap Cap
  • Guards
  • Rehab
  • Infinit
  • T4P
  • Signet
  • Genomicc
  • Shorter
  • March
Overview of the staffing for the Unit (including medical, ACCP, AHPs)

14 Consultant staff

Residents dived into tier one (those who can intubate- specialty doctors, Anaesthetics and ICM) and Tier two consisting of Foundation doctors, ICM, senior clinical Fellows, Internal Medicine, ACCP’s, and Junior Clinical Fellows

Training

Training opportunities when working at this Unit:
  • Training in point of care ultrasound 
  • Opportunity to attend theatre for airway experience 
  • Interhospital transfers 
  • Acting up as an ICM Consultant (for Stage 3 trainees) 

  • Other: Have provided supervision in the past for Stage 2 - Education year
Departmental Teaching:
  • Daily Morning Departmental Teaching facilitated by Consultants.
  • Journal Club presentation – once a month
  • Case Based Discussion every Tuesday

Details of clinical governance meeting days and/or M & M:                             

  • Every Thursday MDT and M and M between 1330 to 1500
  • Once Monthly Clinical Governanace meeting on a Thursday between 1230 to 1330
The medical specialties and subspecialties it is possible to complete within theTrust/Health Board:
  • Stage 1:  Emergency Medicine, Medicine & Anaesthesia   

Which SSYs are offered in your unit:                     

  • Education
Other facilities: 
  • Every Patient bed area has a computer
  • There are four on call rest areas for doctors/ACCP doing the on calls
  • Rest area has Computers and Telephone facility for doctors to use for admin work
  • MDT room has four computers and two telephones
  • Resident doctors/ACCP are encouraged to stay back to rest after morning handover before driving home if the on call has been busy
  • Hot food available only during day time. Vending machines available at the end of the corridor.