WINNER
Gateshead Health FT
Holistic Prescribing in Secondary Prevention: Optimising Outcomes Using an Innovative Cardio-renal-metabolic Service

The Gateshead Secondary Prevention Service represents the UK’s first cardio-renal-metabolic team dedicated to comprehensive risk factor management for patients following cardiovascular events. The service supports people who have experienced heart attacks, stable angina, stroke, transient ischaemic attacks, or peripheral vascular disease.

The service operates through a multidisciplinary model that is consultant-led, pharmacist-delivered, and patient-centred. It focuses on helping patients achieve recommended targets for cholesterol, diabetes, and blood pressure control using evidence-based medical treatments. The team provides supportive counselling to improve medication adherence during the crucial initial months after a cardiovascular event.

This collaborative and streamlined approach is designed to deliver better clinical outcomes, while providing value for money within the local health system.

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Highly commended 

Deans and Central Brighton PCN: Opiate Reduction: a Pharmacist-led Approach

Finalists

Barts Health Trust: A Regional Strategy to Tackle Treatment Inertia and Improve Outcomes: Structured Titration and Rapid Treatment for Heart Failure (START-HF)

Cheshire & Merseyside Provider Collaborative and ICB: System-Wide Medicines Optimisation and Homecare Transformation Across Cheshire and Merseyside. From Fragmented to Unified: A Blueprint for System-Wide Medicines Optimisation

Croydon Health Services Trust: Improving Outcomes and Reducing Costs Through a Biosimilar Adalimumab Switch at Croydon Health Services Trust

NHS England - Immunoglobulin Stewardship Project team: Right Dose, Right Patient. National Immunoglobulin Stewardship project

North West Leicestershire GP Federation: Women’s Health Hub

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton FT: Integrated Pharmacist-Led Lipid Clinics

West London Children’s Healthcare: Reducing Prescribing Errors by an average of 83%

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