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Another project that SHP has been assisting The Royal Wolverhampton Hospital NHS Trust with is the Centre of Excellence for Simulation Training at New Cross Hospital. The following article has been taken from the Wolverhampton Chronicle:
A VIRTUAL hospital ward with wireless talking and breathing mannequins will be created at Wolverhampton’s New Cross Hospital, under £750,000 plans unveiled to train the next generation of doctors and nurses.
Trainers plan to use the hi-tech simulation patients, which are capable of talking, blinking and even crying, to mimic all the signs of life found in real patient.
The life-size dolls, called SimMan, also have replica internal organs including lungs and a pulse. The can be controlled to simulate a variety of medical emergencies, including convulsions, allowing trainee nurses and doctors to hone their skills before treating real patients.
The hospital has unveiled plans to create a four bed replica-ward, identical in every way to a real hospital ward. And it will contain three of the SimMan dolls to test the abilities of medical staff from across the Black Country and West Midlands. The hospital has been using one of the dolls for the past six years.
Stuart Hamilton, a registered nurse for over 20 years, said: “This does save lives and makes a real difference to the quality of care. It is about improving the care that the people of Wolverhampton get.” He said it provided a “safe environment” for students to learn, in what he described as a “completely immersive” situation.
He said the feedback from the students was phenomenal. They said that using the life-like dolls made a real difference to the way they worked in real life.
The hospital’s board is backing plans for the new simulation ward and mannequins. A final business case will be submitted within months.