Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (DBTH) are tackling patient dehydration with an innovative traffic light system. Its success had a huge impact on the ward staff because a good idea they had generated had become reality. Numbers and letters in the four corners of the diamond can be decoded to discover the name of the person or company that owned the registration, and a parcel number which distinguishes between designs registered on the same date. Any patient tolerating less than 500ml a day orally was given a red jug and mug and patients assessed as having a poor fluid intake on admission were also considered for the project.

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In response to these comments, a working party was set up involving all levels of the ward team to identify a way of improving hydration. I went away from that visit but soon found myself picking up occasional jugs at antiques fairs and markets, eventually becoming hooked. The system required the wares to be marked in a specific way, following a fairly standard format which was dictated by the acts.Some of the manufacturers of relief-moulded jugs attempted to protect their designs from being copied by the use of two Acts of Parliament dating from 1798 and 1814. Espresso Gear's hard wearing non stick Teflon coating makes it quck and easy to rinse off these jugs, saving precious time for busy baristas. A healthcare assistant suggested that we could use a model based on the red tray project (Bradley and Rees, 2003), which is used in the trust to ensure patients are nourished. The spout design is taken from the Motta Classic pitcher but with improved quality, and the handle is the same as the Motta Europa jug to create a well built high quality product. The Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool and Waterlow pressure ulcer score were used to identify people who needed a red jug and mug as no hydration assessment tool was available.

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Ensuring you have enough fluids is incredibly important to recovery, and we hope to see improvements in the care we provide following the introduction of our traffic light system later this month. If an employee is unclear which chemicals are in the containers or what areas of the facility the containers have resided in, the risk of chemical accidents and cross-contamination greatly increases. It should serves as an index which will be updated as new manufacturers and their jugs are added, becoming more comprehensive in due course. It has been immensely satisfying that this scheme has been accepted in many trusts in the UK, and also has garnered interest internationally.A constant favourite year in year out with professional baristas, this jug has been colour coded to make it easy to identify the type of milk used. I continued to collect jugs alongside blue and white wares, and these forays led to a more wide-ranging volume, An Illustrated Guide to British Jugs, published in 1997. Nursing staff at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals (DBTH) are set to implement a number of innovative measures to help patients stay hydrated – a major challenge for health professionals. Comments, criticisms, brickbats, suggestions and new information and/or images would all be gratefully received.

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These sleeves are available in four colours and are useful for quickly identifying different types of milk to help prevent cross contamination. By a strange quirk of fate, in about 1982 John Steele at the Antique Collectors’ Club asked me to have a look at a manuscript about jugs he had received for possible publication. From 25 November 2019 the Trust will adopt a simple, traffic light system using coloured jug lids to monitor the amount that individuals are drinking across the day. The choices include elegant glass options to match your glassware, individually made by skilled craftspeople and durable plastic jugs ideal for ice-cold refreshments. I must apologise if any particular area seems inadequate to some readers, but I will endeavour to keep making progress.These can range from constipation, pressure ulcers and also more serious issues such acute kidney injury, cardiac disease and venous thromboembolism (blood clot). Our best selling straight-sided foaming jugs are now available with Teflon coating for super quick and easy cleaning. These marks are covered in detail elsewhere and the reader is recommended particularly to the two Cushion mark books (Cushion H and Cushion P) or Godden's Handbook (Godden NH) for more detail.

Simple measures: improving hydration in patients (DBTH)

I would be delighted to receive comments, compliments or brick-bats, and particularly future contributions, be they information or images.A number of relief-moulded jugs are found which are extensively coloured, not just with coloured backgrounds or small amounts of colouring to pick out the moulding.