WINNER:

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre FT: The Collaborative Design and Evaluation of a Virtual Tour of a Radiotherapy Department to Provide Patients with Key Information Prior to Visiting the Hospital

This collaborative project between Laing O’Rourke, Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, City of Liverpool College and Liverpool University develops and evaluates a virtual tour of a radiotherapy department. Information and communication are key components to achieving informed, relaxed patients. Evidence suggests that patients have concerns about the unknown aspects of hospital visits. Open evenings have been shown to be beneficial for patients and their families in terms of meeting their information requirements and reducing anxiety.

This project aims to be proactive in meeting patients’ information requirements using a virtual tour, providing key information without the need for an extra hospital visit. The judges felt that this is a brilliant idea with clear potential to be lifted and shifted to other areas and adopted at other centres.

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Highly commended

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital FT: An Adaptable, Novel Technology Blueprint for Managing a Neglected Infection

Finalists

Alder Hey Children’s FT: Little Hearts At Home

Manchester University FT, Northern Care Alliance and Medtronic: Using Remotely Monitored Health Data from Pacemakers to Reduce Hospital Admissions for Patients with Heart Failure.

Manchester University FT: Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Manchester Local Care Organisation and Trafford Local Care Organisation: Manchester and Trafford Paediatric Virtual Wards

Norfolk & Waveney ICB Digital Health and Social Care Team with Integrated Care 24: Care Home Out of Hours Remote Monitoring & 111 Ward Round Pilot

Northern Health and Social Care Trust: Adult Speech and Language Therapy’s Dysphagia Telehealth Clinic

Princess Alice Hospice: A Hospice’s Hybrid Offer for Wellbeing Services

Royal Papworth Hospital FT: Cardiac Rhythm Management

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