The 2014 winners and finalists unveiled

Patient Safety and Care Awards

Patient Safety and Care Awards

The Patient Safety and Care Awards - a joint initiative of HSJ and sister title Nursing Times - are a celebration of staff who have created or contributed to excellent healthcare initiatives that have made care safer and better quality for their patients and service users.

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They showcase services that have been redesigned to put the patient truly at the centre of the care. These transformations have shown impressive results in patient and family satisfaction, and outcomes for patients.

This year’s winners and finalists were celebrated at a ceremony at Grosvenor House in London’s Park Lane last night.

Jenni Middleton, editor of Nursing Times said: “Those organisations shortlisted here tonight have listened to the feedback of service users and patients, thought about where they could make improvements that will have dramatic benefits to patient outcomes, and transformed the way they deliver care.

“But what separates them from their peers is that they have done so with the involvement of every single member of the team.”

A huge congratulations to all our finalists and winners.

 

The 2014 winners and finalists

Respiratory Care

Winner

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust: Discharge of Children with Asthma

Finalists

  • KSS Respiratory Network, KSS AHSN: Breathing Matters
  • KSS Respiratory Network, KSS AHSN: Elective Oxygen Titration Before Reaching A/E (A Joint Project of the KSS Respiratory Network and SECAmb)
  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne NHS FT: An Integrated Model of Specialist Palliative Care for CF
  • NHS Nottingham City Clinical Commissioning Group: Transforming Respiratory Care - Nottingham City Integrated Respiratory Service
  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals: The Sheffield Pulmonary Vascular Disease Unit: A One-Stop Approach to a Life-Limiting Illness

Cancer Care

Winner

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS FT: The Sheffield Cancer Survivorship and Late Effects Service: A Multiprofessional Approach to Care

Finalists

  • BUPA: Bupa’s Oncology Service
  • Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS FT: Patient Safety in Acute Cancer Care
  • The Christie NHS FT: Acute Oncology Management Service (inc. the Hotline)
  • The Christie NHS FT: The Dementia Team - Dementia Care in a Cancer Setting
  • City Hospitals Sunderland NHS FT: Macmillan Prison Chemotherapy Project
  • East Midlands Strategic Clinical Network: GP Train the Trainer and Appraiser Educational Workshops to Improve Cancer Awareness
  • Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust: Acute Oncology Service
  • Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust: Plymouth Prostate Cancer Homecare Service Pilot
  • Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust: Cancer and Palliative Care Outreach Information and Support Services – MOSAM group

Cardiac Care

Winner

University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust: Cardiac Rehabilitation Across North Staffordshire

Finalists

  • Forth Valley Royal Hospital: Spending Precious Time at Home
  • Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust: Heart Failure In-Reach Service
  • South Tees NHS FT, James Cook University Hospital: South Tees Blackout Service: Shining ­a Light on Blackouts – A Collaborative Approach
  • Southern Health NHS FT: Fareham & Gosport and South East Hampshire Community Heart Failure Service
  • Spectrum Community Health CIC: Spectrum Community Health CVD Project Team – HMP Wakefield
  • United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust: The Lincolnshire Heart Centre

Prevention of Avoidable Harm

Winner

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust: My Choking Story

Finalists

  • Bromley Healthcare: Gillian Harman and the Leg Ulcer Service
  • Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS FT: Medication STOPIT tool
  • Devon Partnership Trust: Reducing Harm Associated with People Going Absent From Acute Mental Health Units
  • North Bristol Hospital Trust: Reducing Surgical Site Infection
  • Nottingham University Hospitals: Safe Surgery Team
  • QEH King’s Lynn NHS FT: SafeTwire Guidewire – Guiding the Future to Safer Central Venous Cannulation
  • Salford Royal NHS FT: Sustained Reduction in Peritoneal Dialysis Peritonitis
  • University Dental Hospital Manchester: Preventing Wrong Tooth Extraction
  • University of Leicester, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and Health Education East Midlands: Effective Prescribing Insight

Dementia Care

Winner

Kingston Hospital NHS FT: Transforming Dementia Care at Kingston Hospital

Finalists

  • Bexhill Consortium of Practices: A Primary Care-Led Memory Assessment Service
  • Cumbria Partnership NHS FT: Memory Matters – Carlisle
  • Dementia Services Development Centre
  • Hale Place: Enhancing Lives
  • Lancashire Teaching Hospitals: The Older People’s Programme
  • Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS FT: Delivering Improved Dementia Care ­
  • Salisbury NHS FT: Engage
  • University Hospitals of South Manchester: Case Management Service Summary
  • South West Yorkshire Partnership FT: Multi-Professional Diagnostic Forum (MPDF)

Diabetes Care

Winner

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS FT: Sheffield Diabetes – Footcare Team

Finalists

  • Berkshire Healthcare NHS FT: Tailoring IAPT Psychological Interventions for People with T2 Diabetes
  • The Black Country Partnership NHS FT: Improving Diabetes Management for Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Inpatients
  • Cwm Taf University Health Board: ThinkGlucose in Cwm Taf
  • The Hillingdon Hospital NHS FT: Keeping our Young Diabetics Safe
  • NHS Newham Clinical Commissioning Group: Newham Community Prescription
  • Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust: Improving care of Inpatients with Diabetes
  • Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust: Acute Diabetes Team
  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS FT: Working with Insulin, Carbs, Ketones & Exercise to Manage Diabetes (WICKED)

Mental Health

Winner

Community CAMHS and South Tyneside NHS FT: With a Little Help from “Fun Friends” Children can Overcome Anxiety

Finalists

  • Big White Wall
  • Cwm Taf Local Health Board: NHS Wales Quality Assurance Team
  • Cygnet Health Care: Collaborative Risk Assessment and Safety Planning
  • Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust: Dual Diagnosis and Out of Your Head
  • Mental Health Care Partners in North and East London: Building Capacity & Competency for Mental Health in Primary Care
  • Merseycare NHS Trust: High Secure Recovery Champions
  • Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS FT: Respect Training and Cultural Change
  • South Essex Partnership University FT: The Prevention of Avoidable Deaths as a Result of Physical Deterioration
  • University Hospital Bristol NHS Trust: STITCH Self-Harm Project

Education and Training in Patient Safety

Winner

Perinatal Institute: Improving Safety in Maternity Care through­ a National Programme of Education and Training

Finalists

  • Great Ormond Street Hospital: EQUIP
  • Health Education East of England: The Dementia Care Coach Programme
  • Health Education East of England: Quality Improvement Fellows Programme
  • Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust: Using Simulation to Enhance Learning from Clinical Incidents
  • NHS England: Hertfordshire and South Midlands Area Team Quality Collaborative
  • Northampton General Hospital: Aspiring to Excellence – Fresh Eyes on Patient Safety
  • Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust: Creating a CAFE culture – Moving Towards a Cardiac Arrest-Free Environment
  • Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust: Enhancing Patient Safety Through Patient Safety Review Workshops
  • Peninsular Academic Health Science Network: The South West F1 Quality Improvement Programme
  • University of Leicester, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and Health Education East Midlands: Effective Prescribing Insight for the Future

Quality of Care

Winner

Hale Place Care Solutions: Excellence is the Standard

Finalists

  • Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust: Ashby House Respite Care Service
  • Derby Hospitals NHS FT: Volunteering and Intergenerational Care Prove it’s the Small Things that Make the Biggest Difference
  • Derby Hospitals NHS FT: Making Your Moment Matter
  • James Cook University Hospital: Delivering Quality‑and Safe Care for Patients through Seven-Day Physiotherapy Service
  • Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust: High Quality Care for All - Don’t Let the Wall be a Barrier
  • NHS England: Hertfordshire and South Midlands Area Team Quality Collaborative
  • Oxleas NHS FT: Healthy Ageing Nursing Team
  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals: Discharge to Assess (D2A)
  • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS FT: Wigan’s Quality Champions

End-of-Life Care

Winner

County Durham and Darlington FT, Macmillan, Care UK and NHS England Health and Justice: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care in the Prison Service

Finalists

  • Bromley Clinical Commissioning Group and St Christopher’s Group: Bromley Care Partnership Coordination Centre
  • Care UK: Not Dying in Chains
  • Derby Hospitals NHS FT: Partners in Care – One Chance to Get it Right Creating Memories which Last Forever
  • Macmillan Cancer Support: The Midhurst Macmillan Community Specialist Palliative Care Team
  • Southport and Ormskirk Hospitals NHS Trust: Seamless Service in a Seaside Town
  • Sue Ryder: Bedfordshire Partnership for Excellence in Palliative Support (PEPS)
  • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS FT, Salford Royal FT & Bolton NHS FT: Bereavement Alliance – Every Patient, Every Time

Improving Safety in Medicines Management

Winner

Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS FT: Safe Administration of Opiates in Children

Finalists

  • GOSH: i-MAP…Improving Medication Administration and Prescribing
  • Heart of England NHS FT: Using a Novel Real-Time Medication Dashboard to Improve Antibiotic Safety
  • Marie Curie Cancer Care: Medication Administration Errors: Nurses are the Key
  • Norfolk and Suffolk NHS FT: SystemTDM®
  • North Bristol NHS Trust: Reducing the Incidence of “Missed Doses”
  • Northumbria Healthcare Trust: Optimising Medicines. Involving Residents
  • Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust: Microtest Guru Medicines Reconciliation
  • Salford Royal NHS FT: Improving Prescribing Accuracy on Admission
  • University Hospitals Bristol FT: Reducing the Incidence of Omitted Critical Medication

Musculoskeletal Care

Winner

Pilgrim Hospital, (United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust) Boston, Lincolnshire: Reinventing Hip Fracture Care

Finalists

  • Bolton Hospitals NHS FT: A&E Physiotherapy Service
  • Central Manchester University Hospitals FT: The Management of Persistent Low Back Pain in Community MSK Services: The “Back to Fitness” Rehabilitation Programme
  • The Horder Centre: If Only We Could Bottle It
  • Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust: Albert Ward
  • Warrington and Halton FT: Fractured Neck of Femur Project Group

Safety in Surgical Recovery

Winner

Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust: Improvement in Perioperative Hypothermia Using the Model for Improvement

Finalists

  • BMI Healthcare: ERP Multidisciplinary Group
  • Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust: GI and General Surgery Team/SAS Tutor, Ipswich Hospital
  • James Cook University Hospital: Delivering Safe Patient Care in Cardio-thoracic Surgical Recovery through 7-Day Physiotherapy Service
  • North Bristol NHS Trust: Reducing Surgical Site Infection
  • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS FT: A Pathway to Success in Reducing Infection in Women Undergoing Caesarean Section

Stroke Care

Winner

West Suffolk NHS FT: ESOT: Fast Response, Specialist Care, Every Day

Finalists

  • NHS Borders: Pursuing Excellence in Outcomes for Patients with Stroke
  • North East London FT on behalf of the National Anticoagulation Initiative: A National Initiative for Stroke Reduction in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
  • Pennine Care FT Bury Stroke Team

Managing Long-Term Conditions

Winner

Salford Royal Hospital FT: The SRFT Renal Young Adult Clinic – a Relationship-Centred Approach to Care

Finalists

  • Accelerate Health CIC: Moving from Illness to Wellness – Managing Wounds and Lymphoedema
  • Berkshire Healthcare NHS FT: Talking Health – An Innovative Service Providing Psychological Support for People with Long-term Conditions
  • CSH Surrey: Integrating Mental Health with Community Matron Services to Improve Patient Safety
  • Derby Hospitals NHS FT: Skype Technology Puts Home Dialysis Patients Back in Control of Their Lives
  • GSTT Community Health Services: Transformation of South East London’s Amputee Rehabilitation­ Pathway
  • Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust: A Long-Term Solution for a Long-Term Condition
  • Plymouth Hospital NHS Trust: Promoting Patients’ Independence
  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS FT: The Sheffield Integrated Care Team Virtual Ward Trial

Technology and IT to Improve Patient Safety

Winner

Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals Trust: SafeHands – Using Real Time Locating to Improve Patient Safety

Finalists

  • Comtact Healthcare: Supporting Patient Safety through Digital Healthcare
  • Croydon Healthcare NHS Trust: Getting it Right Every Time
  • Derby Hospitals NHS FT: New “Training Passport” App for Hospital Staff will Help Protect Patients
  • Dr Toolbox/Health Education England: Dr Toolbox - Enabling Trainees
  • Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust: Adoption of Technology Improves Patient Safety and Increases Direct Care Time
  • North West London Hospitals NHS Trust: Implementation of an Electronic Whiteboard System
  • Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS FT: Using Smart Locks to Improve Medicine Security and Release Time to Care
  • Wessex Trauma Network: Major Trauma Triage Tool Smartphone App

Changing Culture

Winner

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS FT: The Sheffield Microsystem Coaching Academy

Finalists

  • Bolton Clinical Commissioning Group: Developing a Patient Safety Culture in Primary Care
  • Cambridge University Hospitals: Maintaining a Safety Culture in Theatres
  • Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust: Creating a CAFÉ culture: Moving Towards a Cardiac Arrest Free Environment
  • Ormskirk Hospital: Compassionate Conversations
  • The Salford Royal Hospital FT: The SRFT Renal Young Adult Clinic – An Innovative, Relationship-centred Approach to Care
  • University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust: Getting Emergency Care Right – A Change Programme
  • University Hospital Southampton: Dr Juliane Kause

Clinical Leadership

Winner

United Lincolnshire Hospital Trust: Theophilus Joachim

Finalists

  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS FT: Integrated Care Through the Development of a Families Division
  • Derby Hospitals FT: Keep Me Safe – Derby’s Clinical Leadership Drives Sustainable Safety Improvements and Culture Change
  • Devon Partnership NHS Trust: The Quality Improvement Academy
  • Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust: Project Omer
  • NHS Nottingham City CCG: Practice Makes Perfect – Nottingham City Peer Support and Practice Visits Programme
  • Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust: Creating a CAFÉ culture – Moving Towards a Cardiac Arrest Free Environment
  • Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust: Caring Around the Clock – Leadership Rounding
  • Perinatal Institute: A National, Evidence-Based Programme for Reducing Adverse Outcomes­in Maternity Care
  • South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS FT: The Cardiac Arrest TF Team
  • SSP Health: Continuity of Delivery of Safe Patient Services in the Face of TUPE and Financial Challenges

Patient Safety in the Care of Older People

Winner

Central Eastern Commissioning Support Unit: Mountnessing Court – Dementia Reablement

Finalists

  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS FT: Community Care Pathways (Pathfinder)
  • Burton Hospitals NHS FT: Preventing Falls through Reviewing Medication and Nursing Ownership
  • The Christie Hospital NHS FT: The Dementia Team - Dementia Care in a Cancer Setting
  • East Kent Hospitals University NHS FT: Safer Clinical Systems
  • South Tyneside NHS FT: The Community Falls Service
  • South Worcestershire Clinical Commissioning Group: Enhancing the Quality of Care in Care Homes
  • ULHT: Pilgrim Hospital Hip Fracture Project
  • Walsall Clinical Commissioning Group and Walsall Healthcare Trust
  • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS FT: Dementia: The Acute Story So Far…

Patient Safety in Hospital Care

Winner

Kent & Medway NHS, Social Care Partnership Trust & EKHU NHS FT: SMaRTer Care for Patients with Mental Health Symptoms in the General Hospital

Finalists

  • Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust: GI & General Surgery Team, Ipswich Hospital
  • Mid Essex Hospital NHS Trust: Trigger Response Team
  • Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust: Recognise and Rescue: A Hospital-Wide Collaboration
  • Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS FT: “Early Warning” Neurological Chart
  • Royal United Hospital Bath Trust: Acute Diabetes Team, RUH, Bath
  • Royal United Hospital Bath Trust: Improving Hydration in an Acute Setting
  • South Tees NHS Trust: Therapeutic Care Volunteers – Delivering a Safe and Compassionate Patient Experience
  • South Tyneside NHS FT: Patient Dependency Tool

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