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CLINICAL GOVERNANCE
Winner: South Staffordshire Healthcare trust Towards Effective Mental Health Day Services Contact: Theresa Moyes, tel: 01785-272560 A three-year project to transform a mental health day unit. Audit found the traditional, hospital-based unit had no focus. Attendance was high, but it had few referrals and many attenders had no definable continuing ...
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MENTAL HEALTH
Winner: Newcastle, North Tyneside and Northumbria Mental Health trust A partnership initiative: service users carry out interviews with people who have recently been discharged from inpatient rehabilitation services to gauge their level of satisfaction. The partners are the East Loan rehabilitation unit, the psychology and clinical governance departments of the ...
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PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
Winner: Barnet primary care trust Project: Awaredressers Contact: David King, tel: 020-8201 4860 Awaredressers is a community partnership between Barnet health promotion service and African businesses in the Colindale and Burnt Oak areas of Barnet. It encourages African entrepreneurs and key figures to act as peer-educators and, where appropriate, supply ...
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PRIMARY CARE
Winner: North Bradford primary care trust The project was started to improve primary care within the PCT and to improve access to secondary and intermediate services for local people. A number of projects are taking place at various points along the patient pathway to manage capacity and demand.
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IMPROVING CARE WITH e-TECHNOLOGY
ECMScopyright started in 1997 in response to increasing pressure within the acute sector. It refers patients who live in clearly defined geographic areas between two or more hospitals to the site experiencing least pressure. It is accessible 24 hours a day via a call centre and the Internet.