All Best Practice articles – Page 294
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Trust improves safety of surgical patients by keeping them warm
Entrant: Royal United Hospital Bath Foundation Trust
Category: Patient Safety 2014 / Safety in Surgical Recovery
Award: Winner -
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Improving patient outcomes through research studies
Entrant: Southern Health Foundation Trust
Category: HSJ Awards 2014 / Clinical Research Impact
Award: Shortlisted -
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Improving safety for surgical patients
Entrant: Alder Hey Children's Foundation Trust
Category: HSJ Awards 2014 / Patient Safety
Award: Shortlisted -
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Trust speeds up stroke intervention
Entrant: West Suffolk Foundation Trust
Category: Patient Safety 2014 / Stroke Care
Award: Winner -
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Tool monitors long-term medication in older patients
Entrant: Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Category: Patient Safety 2014 / Preventing Avoidable Harm
Award: Shortlisted -
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Home assessments by nurses saves time and money
Entrant: Plymouth Hospitals Trust
Category: Patient Safety 2014 / Cancer Care
Award: Shortlisted -
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Pharmacist prescribing leads to 0.3% error rate from 1415 prescribed medicines
Entrant: Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust
Category: Patient Safety 2015 / Improving Safety in Medicines Management
Award: Shortlisted -
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Unintentional omitted doses reduced to 0.09%
Entrant: East London Foundation Trust
Category: Patient Safety 2015 / Improving Safety in Medicines Management
Award: Shortlisted -
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Barcode system saves €70,000 in 4 months
Entrant: National Centre for Hereditary Coagulation Disorders and St. James’s Hospital, Dublin
Category: Patient Safety 2015 / Technology and IT to Improve Patient Safety
Award: Shortlisted -
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Trust scheme to improve patient safety prevents harm to more than 19,000 patients
Entrant: Derby Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust
Category: Patient Safety 2014 / Clinical Leadership
Award: Shortlisted -
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Face-to-face training improved competency and potentially saved £320,000
Entrant: University of Leicester, University Hospitals of Leicester Trust and Health Education East Midlands
Category: Patient Safety 2014 / Education and Training in Patient Safety
Award: Shortlisted -
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Sunderland cuts cost of nutritional supplements by £100k in one year
Entrant: City Hospitals Sunderland Foundation Trust and Sunderland Clinical Commissioning Group
Category: Patient Safety 2015 / Improving Safety and Quality in Primary Care
Award: Shortlisted -
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Redesigned cardiac rehabilitation achieves 100% satisfaction
Entrant: University Hospital of North Midlands Trust
Category: Patient Safety 2015 / Managing Long-Term Conditions
Award: Shortlisted -
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Team cuts hospital rates of admission by 11% or 322 bed days
Entrant: University Hospital of South Manchester Foundation Trust
Category: Patient Safety 2014 / Dementia Care
Award: Shortlisted -
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Faster service improves diagnosis rate by 12%
Entrant: South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust
Category: Patient Safety 2014 / Dementia Care
Award: Shortlisted -
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Training programme for multidisciplinary team reduces their clinical errors from 20% to 16%
Entrant: Oxford Simulation Teaching and Research (OxSTaR)
Category: Patient Safety 2015 / Education and Training in Patient Safety
Award: Shortlisted -
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Awareness campaign by Trust increases the reporting of documentation related incidents by 178%
Entrant: City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation trust
Category: Patient Safety 2015 / Education and Training in Patient Safety
Award: Shortlisted -
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Private health company turns around management of 20 GP practices
Entrant: SSP Health
Category: Patient Safety 2014 / Clinical Leadership -
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Service could cut care bill in last year of life by 20%
Entrant: Macmillan Cancer Support
Category: Patient Safety 2014 / End of Life Care
Award: Shortlisted -
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Improved awareness and assistive technologies reduce falls by 21%
Entrant: Buckinghamshire County Council/NHS
Category: Patient Safety 2015 / Patient Safety in Care of Older People
Award: Shortlisted