Patient Safety Awards winners unveiled

Twenty-one winning projects were celebrated by an audience of more than 800 attendees, at the first virtual edition of this event.

Common themes included patient-centric care, innovative technology deployment, and collaboration. Winners included the patient safety team of the year: Royal United Bath Foundation Trust’s sepsis and kidney injury prevention team, which used innovative awareness campaigns to rapidly train a critical mass of staff.

The “patient safety innovation of the year” category was won by a collaboration including Oxford and Royal Berkshire hospitals (along with Oxford Academic Health Science Network and Health Education England) for improving the safety of low risk births, “using ‘real fetal heart sounds’: an innovative solution to teaching and assessing competency in intermittent auscultation”.

HSJ editor Alastair McLellan said: “Each of the winning teams exemplifies the best of the NHS, working relentlessly to deliver a higher quality of care to their patients and improving the safety of their services, despite the ongoing pandemic.

“I thank our independent expert judging panel for their efforts selecting such a high-calibre set of finalists - it is clear that each project is making a real difference. Virtually celebrating the finalists’ successes was a real privilege, and I am sure other organisations and teams can learn from these innovative and lifesaving projects as we continue to raise the bar on safety.”

You can read about all the winners and finalists in the Patient Safety Awards Project Showcase.

2021 HSJ Patient Safety Congress and Awards