Dr. Patricia Donnelly

Patricia Donnelly was divisional director of clinical services at the Royal before being appointed as director of clinical service.She had previously been the clinical director for clinical professions, psychology services manager and a consultant clinical psychologist in the Royal, Belfast City and Craigavon Hospitals.Patricia is responsible for anaesthetics; theatres; critical care; sterile services, diagnostic services and therapy and therapeutic services.

Dr Patricia Donnelly: Director of Clinical Services, Royal Victoria Hospital

The Royal hospitals have been responding to relatives' inquiries, giving information and, in some cases, returning tissues.

Ms Patricia Donnelly - Director of Clinical Services, Royal Group Hospitals Board Rep.

The wireless network - using technology from Trapeze Networks and installed by Telindus - also means doctors don't have to leave surgery to pick up information, said Dr Patricia Donnelly, director of clinical services at the trust."An anaesthetist doesn't have to go out to a central point to get their lab results and we've got that running in some theatres now and that's a fantastic benefit," she said.
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Donnelly said: "We are starting to join some of the dots but you need that infrastructure, you need that framework."

Dr Patricia Donnelly, the Royal,s director for clinical services, says the wireless network is very useful in areas such as drug distribution and storage.

Her department is planning to conduct a trial next month of a robot that will handle drug distribution in the hospital.

,Drug dispensaries are extremely work-intensive places that need a lot of people working flat out.A robot can have drug orders transmitted to it by WiFi, scan dispensary shelves looking at barcodes, then grab what is needed and get it to the right ward.It is very quick indeed,, said Donnelly.

,It can even use the night to do stocktakes and reorganise things.That means we can reduce drug stocks massively, because if we know our drug levels all the time we won,t have to wait for a big stocktake every quarter of a year.,

Donnelly hopes to generate savings of £500,000 per year using WiFi-enabled technology to support drug distribution.

The time saved by the robot could also allow pharmacists to go out into the hospital and advise on drug regimes for patients, speeding up recovery times, says Donnelly.

,A lot of the time drug regimes can go wrong, so if pharmacists have the time to go and speak to people they can improve treatment programmes,, she said.

Summary of remarks by Ms Patricia Donnelly, Director of Clinical Professions, Royal Group of Hospitals
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Slide presentation used by Ms Patricia Donnelly, Director of Clinical Professions, Royal Group of Hospitals

Dr Patricia DonnellyDivisional Director (Clinical Services)
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Dr Patricia DonnellyDivisional Director (Clinical Services)