WINNER

Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust

Health Inequalities in Endoscopy; DNA Predictor and Navigation Pilot

The Core20PLUS5 framework recommends focusing on the 20 per cent most deprived communities, with particular attention to early cancer diagnosis to reduce harm. When patients miss diagnostic appointments, especially for cancer tests, this can lead to treatment delays, require additional resources to reschedule, and potentially result in more advanced disease at diagnosis.

To address this issue, the trust’s public health team collaborated with information services, endoscopy and cancer services departments to create a predictive risk model. This tool identifies patients who are likely to miss endoscopy appointments due to health inequalities. Patients calculated to have a 10 per cent or greater probability of non-attendance received proactive phone calls before their appointments, helping staff understand and address potential barriers to attendance.

Read a detailed case study about this project at HSJ Solutions.

Highly commended

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT: Urology Improvement Project

Finalists

Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust: Quail AI-powered Patient Experience Tool

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board: Empowering Nurses Through Data: Our Journey to Safer Staffing

Cheshire and Merseyside Rehabilitation Network, hosted by The Walton Centre FT: Co-producing a Streamlined Care Pathway to Optimise Safe and Timely Bed Management Across Multiple Organisational Boundaries

Liverpool University Hospitals FT: STORM – Stroke Team Operations Review Meeting: Improving Patient Care Utilising Weekly Data Review Meetings in Stroke Care at Aintree Hospital

Sandwell and West Birmingham Trust: Optimising Patient Flow: Data-Driven Strategies for Proactive Length-of-Stay Management

The Royal Wolverhampton Trust: A Frugally Developed Proactive Data-Driven System to Optimise the Dietetic Care Pathway

University Hospital Southampton: Remote Surveillance of Unwell Patients on the Wards – a Proactive Approach to Patient Safety

 

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