All Health Service Journal articles in 22 November 2007 – Page 4

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    Mental health innovation

    2007-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Winner Oxfordshire PCTThe jointly commissioned by the local authority and PCT service delivers a single screening and referral process for children's mental health services. Any agency including health can access the service though a referral form which includes the views of the child and their family about what service they ...

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    Implementing NICE guidance

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    Winner Oxleas Foundation trust The project implements NICE guidance on Schizophrenia across a London based mental health trust. An audit measured trust practice against the guidelines and against a technology appraisal for the use of atypical antipsychotic prescribed to service users.The scheme concentrated on focusing on what clinicians need at ...

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    Skills development

    2007-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Winner The DESMOND CollaborativeA self-management education programme for people newly diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes was developed.The DESMOND (Diabetes Education and Self Management for Ongoing and Newly Diagnosed) Training and Quality Development (TQD) Programme is delivered by two trained health care professional educators to a group of patients over two ...

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    Information-based decision making

    2007-10-08T00:00:00Z

    WinnerLeicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland Cancer NetworkService provision for the two cancer centres in Leicester, Northamptonshire and Rutland (LNR) was improved and standardised using Clinical Information Analysis (CIA) data.In the autumn of 2006, the CIA Programme presented data to the Network Oncology Group which showed the different treatment approaches being given ...

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    Clinical service redesign

    2007-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Winner Salford Royal Foundation Trust and Salford PCTA new model of care for neuroscience disorders was developed in order to meet the 18 week targets.The existing service model was overwhelmed, with 11 week waiting times for first outpatient appointment, 13 weeks for a routine MRI and a further ten weeks ...

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    Good corporate citizenship

    2007-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Winner Nottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustGood Corporate CitizenHolistic and happening was how the judges described good corporate citizenship atNottingham, a trust where the chief executive chaired the environment group and has sustainability as one of his five key priorities.The panel appreciated that the trust has a real understanding of how ...

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    Improving Care with E-Technology

    2007-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Winner NHS Northwest,LancashireSouth andCumbriaCardiac Network and Broomwell HealthwatchCardiac Telemedicine in Primary CareAn NHS North West 6-month pilot of telemedical ECGs within Cumbria & Lancashire has the potential to slash NHS bills by at least£46M per year.Translating the success across the 15 GP practices and two NHS walk-in centres participating in ...

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    Primary Care Innovation

    2007-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Winner Bradford and Airedale teaching PCTSelf injury ServiceDespite the fact that a recent study has shown that as many as 11 per cent of 16 year old girls self-injure, the lack of compassion that they and others like them frequently experience in A&E, along with an overall dissatisfaction with the ...

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    Cost Effective Partnership Working

    2007-10-05T00:00:00Z

    WinnerBirminghamEast andNorth PCTNo need to teach an old dog new tricks.Arrangements made under the Health Act Flexibilities led to the then Eastern Birmingham PCT undertaking responsibility, in 2004, for an integrated provision with a pooled fund for Intermediate Care Services. The partnership arrangement with Birmingham City Council’s Adults and Communities ...

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    Communications

    2007-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Winner Newham University Hospitals NHS Trust Patients FirstA unanimous winner in the opinion of the judges, the Newham communications project was applauded for its involvement and inspiration of staff at all levels, its measurable impact on the local community’s perception of the hospital and most ...

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    Chronic disease management

    2007-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Winner Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Primary Care Trust with Cornwall County Council Department of Adult Social CareThe Pathway to Improving Health andIndependenceIn an area with a large population of older persons, high indices of deprivation and long journey times to acute services, an inclusive strategy has seen a former ...