NTH Solutions, a subsidiary company in the North East of England, looks back and celebrates its successes and achievements on the fifth year anniversary from the date the organisation was established.
NTH Solutions, an innovative estates and facilities management company, is an LLP subsidiary of North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, an acute Trust with over 5000 employees serving patients across Teesside.
Mike Worden, who has been managing director of NTH Solutions since 2019, said:
“To look back on what we have achieved in the last five years is phenomenal. We are a small company of around 800 staff and yet continue to push the boundaries of innovation and excellence to provide fantastic services and products to not only our trust, but the wider local and national communities.
“I believe the success of our organisation has been driven by our people. We have the most passionate, caring and committed colleagues I could ever wish to work alongside. I believe our motto of “everybody feels like somebody” is now becoming part of our DNA and ultimately this authenticity is what has driven our success, which not only improves services for our patients but also generates income which is invested directly back in to frontline patient care.”
Below is a snapshot of some of the fantastic achievements the company has made since it was established in March 2018:
- Continuous PPE provision during the global Covid-19 pandemic: Our team of procurement and supplies specialists worked relentlessly (and successfully) around the clock, in the environment of a global shortage, to ensure that our colleagues were never short of the PPE they required to meet the challenges they faced and best care for our patients.
- We made reusable PPE: We teamed up with local manufacturers to manufacture our own reusable PPE and supplied it to other healthcare providers who needed it.
- Enhanced oxygen infrastructure: Helping our colleagues to ensure patient safety, our teams worked hand in hand with clinical and operational colleagues to ensure that no patient’s safety was risked due to the oxygen capabilities of our infrastructure. In addition to this, in the autumn of 2021 the team provided a two-fold increase in the site’s oxygen infrastructure, therefore doubling the oxygen capacity and enabling the team to prepare for the second wave of our Covid-19 response.
- Enhanced A&E facilities: Working closely with our clinical and operational colleagues the Estates team led an ambitious 12 week redesign and enhancement of our Urgent and Emergency Care facilities, while maintaining operational capability in the live site services and in readiness for the pressures of winter. This successful programme meant the Trust were the first in the North East to achieve this target. Additional work involved the remodelling of the Day Case unit and Paediatric Day units respectively, with both work streams completed in February 2021.
- Establishment of the NHS Deep Cleaning and Advisory Service: During the pandemic we supported our communities both locally and nationally with their response to Covid-19 and shared our experience and expertise to enhance their infection control needs and safety. This led to us creating the NHS Deep Cleaning and Advisory Service, which is now a national brand and established the UK’s first domestic cleaning course accredited by the Royal Society of Public Health.
- Supporting the Ukraine Appeal: After the news of the war in Ukraine our supplies team worked with the Trust and local community to gather much needed medical supplies and co-ordinated the delivery to war-torn Ukraine.
- NHS Deep Cleaning and Advisory Service cleaned at the Commonwealth Games: Last Summer, at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, our team of 300 trained professionals from the NHS Deep Cleaning and Advisory Service managed and provided exceptional cleaning services across high-capacity venues to NHS standards, a fantastic achievement!
- Our estates team built a vaccination hub: Our vaccination hub was built to allow our staff and the local community to get their vaccines to protect themselves and our patients this winter.
- We are continuing investment across our hospital sites: The opening of a state of the art respiratory ward at North Tees helped us manage admissions of patients with covid-19 and flu this winter, local Trusts came to see the unit and the benefits it provides. A £1million fire alarm system has been fitted at HartlepoolHospitalmeaning the hospital has gone from around 2,500 fire alarm devices to around 5,000 devices, providing coverage to every room on site and new patient lifts have been installed at Peterlee hospital.
- £1 million made from the Community Kit Bag – Meaning we could purchase vital equipment for the NHS: We have now surpassed a revenue profit of 1 million pounds purely from sales of the Community Kit Bag. Revenue generated from the sale of products by NTH Solutions is reinvested back into frontline patient care, therefore reaching these exceptional figures is a huge achievement for the organisation.
- HSJ & UK Business award finalists: Our incredible Community Kit Bag innovation won Bronze in the ‘Best Product Development’ category at the UK Business Awards and was also commended as a Finalist in the ‘Primary and Community Care Innovation of the Year’ category at the prestigious HSJ Awards. The innovation has changed working practices of so many healthcare professionals and it’s brilliant to see it gain this deserving recognition.
- 2x published articles in global Forbes magazine: The humble Community Kit Bag and Pathisol Hospital System Trial has gone international! We are incredibly proud of these simple yet effective innovations and it is terrific to see such an esteemed publication as Forbes take an interest in our all-important work.
- Establishing the NHS Implant Analysis Service: The NHS Implant Analysis Service conducts independent physical analysis of used explanted medical devices and reports on their performance in patients. The focus of this service is to increase patient safety and drive outcome improvements.
Mike Worden continues: “The achievements we have made together are a clear reflection of our fantastic members of staff who always rise to any challenge and provide excellent service day in day out. As managing director, my main priority is to make NTH Solutions an incredible company to work for, and with, where everybody feels like somebody.”
