All Health Service Journal articles in December 2017 – Page 16
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Best Practice
Well-being Club helps 83% of leg ulcers to heal within 15 weeks
Entrant: Livewell Southwest CIC
Category: HSJ Awards 2017/ Specialised Services Redesign
Award: Shortlisted -
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CATCH empowers parents to deliver self-care for their children
Entrant: Damibu
Category: HSJ Awards 2017/ Enhancing Care by Sharing Data and Information
Award: Shortlisted -
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Purple Bow Scheme helps provide compassionate care for end of life patients
Entrant: University Hospital of North Midlands Trust
Category: HSJ Awards 2017/ Compassionate Patient Care
Award: Shortlisted -
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Sustainable food project reuses food waste to reduce carbon footprint
Entrant: Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Category: HSJ Awards 2017/ Improving Environmental and Social Sustainability
Award: Shortlisted -
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Supporting people with mental illness reduces S136 detentions
Entrant: Dorset HealthCare University Foundation Trust and Dorset Police
Category: HSJ Awards 2017/ Specialised Services Redesign
Award: Shortlisted -
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Specialist dementia team offers enhanced care and helps reduce length of stay
Entrant: Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust
Category: HSJ Awards 2017/ Specialised Services Redesign
Award: Shortlisted -
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Red2Green initiative helps reduce occupied bed days by 30.4%
Entrant: Worcestershire Health and Care Trust
Category: HSJ Awards 2017/ Most effective adoption and diffusion of existing best practice
Award: Shortlisted -
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Real time comprehensible information helps patients to improve medication adherence
Entrant: Mistura Informatics
Category: HSJ Awards 2017/ Improving Care with Technology
Award: Shortlisted -
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Acute Therapy Service reduces hospital admissions, saving £1,324,300
Entrant: Lancashire Care Foundation Trust
Category: HSJ Awards 2017/ Innovation in Mental Health
Award: Shortlisted -
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Patient at Home helps 128 patients to be discharged in a month
Entrant: The Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust
Category: HSJ Awards 2017/ Acute, Community and/or Primary Care Services Redesign
Award: Shortlisted -
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Mental health nurses help avoid 1,421 vehicle dispatches by offering support on call
Entrant: London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Category: HSJ Awards 2017/ Innovation in Mental Health
Award: Shortlisted -
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Online self-referral portal improves management of patients coming for physiotherapy
Entrant: AHP Suffolk
Category: HSJ Awards 2017/ Improving Care with Technology
Award: Shortlisted -
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BedFinder app prevents delays in discharge of care and saves over £140k
Entrant: OLM Systems
Category: HSJ Awards 2017/ Improving Care with Technology
Award: Shortlisted -
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Raising awareness about domestic abuse helps improve mental health services
Entrant: Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust
Category: HSJ Awards 2017/ Innovation in Mental Health
Award: Shortlisted -
Best Practice
Home therapies service helps improve quality of life for renal patients
Entrant: The Royal Wolverhampton Trust
Category: HSJ Awards 2017/ Supported Self Care
Award: Shortlisted -
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i-Rock service supports young people with mental health issues
Entrant: Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust
Category: HSJ Awards 2017/ Innovation in Mental Health
Award: Shortlisted -
HSJ LocalMore than 23,000 patients impacted by eye appointments backlog
A teaching trust is struggling to see a massive backlog of ophthalmology patients waiting for follow up appointments.
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Expert BriefingPerformance Watch: NHS feeling the winter heat
Welcome to HSJ’s new Performance Watch expert briefing. Our new fortnightly newsletter will delve into the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders and provide unrivalled insight into what they plan to do about them
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Trust directors blew the whistle over chief executive
A leaked document obtained by HSJ has revealed senior executives at Wirral University Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust blew the whistle to NHS Improvement over serious concerns relating to trust chief executive David Allison and chair Michael Carr.
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NewsTrusts allowed to cancel elective work until mid-January
NHS England has told under pressure hospitals they can cancel non-urgent elective procedures to free up beds for patients coming through accident and emergency.