All Awards category articles – Page 2
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Patient Safety
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear Foundation Trust – Personality Disorder Hub Team The ward-based deaths of four patients with complex and co-morbid emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD) naturally left clinicians at Northumberland, Tyne and Wear FT striving to find ways to improve patient safety for this vulnerable group. Risk aversion meant ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Primary Care Innovation
Mid-Mersey A&E Delivery Board, Widnes Vikings, Renova Developments and Cheshire & Merseyside Health & Care Partnership – Beat the Scrum Sponsored by People in Halton – a region in north west England with a challenging socioeconomic makeup – have often not used the NHS in the most effective ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Staff Engagement
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust – LTHT People Sponsored by Historically, employee engagement has been a challenge at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust. In the 2014 national staff survey, the trust was below average on 18 key measures of engagement. The leadership team recognised that colleagues did not feel their ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: System Led Support for Carers
Hertfordshire and West Essex STP – A healthier future for carers Sponsored by A focus on supporting unpaid carers is nothing new for the organisations making up Hertfordshire and West Essex Sustainability and Transformation Partnership: a multiagency carers’ strategy actually began in Hertfordshire as far back as 1995. ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Trust of the Year
Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust Sponsored by No one could accuse leaders at Northamptonshire Healthcare FT of setting their sights low. The overall aim is to support change and growth both locally and on a national scale. Individual goals include demonstrably changing cultures to influence care; delivering innovations that ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Using Technology to Improve Efficiency
NeuroCoRe – Digitising dementia assessment Sponsored by Prompt dementia assessment is an established priority for both the government and the NHS. Traditionally the responsibility for these assessments has fallen to NHS memory clinics, but the huge increase in need for such services has seen waiting times significantly lengthen. ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Widening Participation
Royal United Hospitals Bath Foundation Trust in partnership with Virgin Care and Fosse Way School – Project SEARCH Sponsored by According to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, during the first part of 2018 less than a quarter of people with learning difficulties, a speech impediment or a ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Workforce
Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare Trust – Developing the role of staff nurses within health visiting Sponsored by The national Healthy Child Programme sets out a recommended framework for supporting child health and health promotion. But in 2015, staff at Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare Trust were aware ...
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NewsWinners of 2018 HSJ Awards revealed
The 38th annual HSJ Awards felicitated winners in 26 categories
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HSJ InteractiveWinners of 2018 HSJ Value Awards revealed
The HSJ Value Awards 2018 honour projects that deliver improvements for patients
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HSJ KnowledgeHSJ Awards honours the healthcare profession
Andrew Preston on the importance of recognising the incredible efforts of individuals and organisations in pioneering innovation and better outcomes in healthcare
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: Acute Sector Innovation
Sponsored by Cardinal Health Imperial College Healthcare Trust: The NOSH Project Imperial College Healthcare Trust developed the NOSH Project – a three tier pathway to improve nutrition and hydration in patients with dementia. Two healthcare support workers were employed to implement the pathway. The project is now ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: Acute, Community and/or Primary Care Services Redesign
Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust – Primary Care Paediatrics The trust developed paediatric clinics in a primary care setting, helping to shorten the patient pathway and improve patient care. This has enabled families to receive an expert opinion without having to travel large distances to their district general hospital. Judges ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: Improved Partnerships between Health and Local Government
Sponsored by Socitm The ESBT partners: Eastbourne, Hailsham and Seaford Clinical Commissioning Group; Hastings and Rother Clinical Commissioning Group; East Sussex County Council; East Sussex Healthcare Trust; Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust: East Sussex Better Together The East Sussex Better Together programme was developed to improve care ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: Compassionate Patient Care
Warrington Clinical Commissioning Group: Commissioning for Choice at End of Life The team improved patient care in the community by supporting patients to co-design their end of life care around their needs, wishes and lifestyles. Eighty two per cent of people were able to die in their preferred place of ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: Enhancing Care by Sharing Data and Information
Nottingham University Hospitals Trust and East Midlands Academic Health Sciences Network: Enhancing Care by Sharing Data and Information Electronic Holistic Needs Assessments Impacts The team implemented the electronic Holistic Needs Assessments (eHNA) and care planning to tumour sites. They also developed a toolkit, enabling clinicians to extract more detailed meaning ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: Using Technology to Improve Efficiency
Sponsored by de Poel health + care St George’s University Hospitals Foundation Trust: Home monitoring of hypertension in pregnancy (HaMpton) The team implemented an app which enables home monitoring of hypertension in pregnancy in order to reduce hospital visits for monitoring of pre-eclampsia. The number of ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: Improving Care with Technology
Sponsored by NHS Digital Communitas Clinics Ltd and Surrey Downs Clinical Commissioning Group: Surrey Downs Teledermscopy Service The team developed a real time referral service to provide timely diagnosis and improve patients’ access to services. Forty two per cent of patients referred to the service have avoided ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: Improving Outcomes through Learning and Development
Brighton and Sussex Medical School: Time for Dementia The team at Brighton and Sussex developed an educational programme for undergraduate students, to help them better understand long term conditions. The programme was designed to improve understanding and knowledge in medical, nursing and paramedic students. Judges felt that this initiative humanises ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2017: Innovation in Mental Health
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board: Cardiff and Vale Young Onset Dementia Service The team developed a service to provide age appropriate support to people diagnosed with dementia. The service saw an increase in referral rates and realised net cost savings of £133k in the first year of operation. The ...