Value in Healthcare Awards winners for 2015

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Finalists

  • East Midlands Ambulance Service: Joint Ambulance Conveyance Project – winner
  • University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust – highly commended
  • Derby Teaching Hospitals FT
  • GE Healthcare Finnamore: Emergency Care Pathway Optimisation – Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust
  • Heart of England FT: The management of wet age related macular degeneration with oraya therapy to reduce the requirement for anti-VEGF injections
  • NHS Chorley and South Ribble Clinical Commissioning Group: Transforming urgent care
  • North Devon District Hospital: Enhanced recovery pathway for elective hip and knee replacements
  • Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust and Pennine Care FT: Rapid palliative care transfer pathway
  • Wessex Academic Health Science Network – MISSION Severe Asthma: Modern innovative solutions to improve outcomes in severe asthma
  • Aintree University Hospital: The Evolution of a Dedicated Acute Care Surgery Unit – Saves Lives, Money and Time

East Midlands Ambulance Service: Joint Ambulance Conveyance Project

The judges said: “This project was very innovative and nationally significant; it addresses a public sector efficiency challenge and acute service.”

The first of its kind in the UK, this project brings together the expertise of East Midlands Ambulance Service Trust, Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service and Lincolnshire Integrated Voluntary Emergency Services (L.I.V.E.S).

Having been awarded £429, 000 to develop a one year pilot, fire, ambulance and local voluntary services worked together to design a service that would improve the efficiency and quality of responses to medical emergencies. The result is the Joint Ambulance Conveyance Project, which operates across Long Sutton, Stamford and Woodhall Spa fire stations.

The project works on a simple idea: fire and rescue services respond to life threatening medical emergencies prior to the arrival of an East Midlands paramedic. Due to the proximity of local fire stations to their communities, a JACP ambulance is able to respond to emergencies in just two minutes, ensuring that patients get the attention they require quickly. Patients are also transported to hospital much faster, leaving other ambulances free to help more patients.

All of the JACP crews are trained in the first person on the scene award and are given an additional five days’ ambulance aid training. They are also trained in the emergency driving of an ambulance to the same standard as an NHS ambulance driver.

Finalists

  • University Hospitals Bristol FT
  • Aintree University Hospital: The Evolution of a Dedicated Acute Care Surgery Unit – Saves Lives, Money and Time
  • Derby Teaching Hospitals FT: Derby’s success in protecting elective care in the face of unprecedented emergency admissions
  • GE Healthcare Finnamore: Emergency Care Pathway Optimisation – Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust
  • Heart of England FT: The management of wet age related macular degeneration with oraya therapy to reduce the requirement for anti-VEGF injections
  • NHS Chorley and South Ribble CCG: Transforming urgent care
  • North Devon District Hospital: Enhanced recovery pathway for elective hip and knee replacements
  • Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust and Pennine Care FT: Rapid palliative care transfer pathway
  • Wessex AHSN – MISSION Severe Asthma: Modern innovative solutions to improve outcomes in severe asthma

Sponsor profile: Newton Europe

At Newton we work side by side with NHS organisations to help them tackle the challenge of delivering cost and efficiency improvements while continuing to increase quality of care. Any easy to achieve savings have already been realised, and trusts are having to dig deeper and turn to more innovative solutions to meet their targets.

Our unique approach delivers real, tangible results. It has saved healthcare providers up to £50m a year in sustainable improvements through transforming healthcare processes, cultural behaviour and the business intelligence used to manage them.

It also delivers tangible, measureable results for patients and the staff on the ground in charge of their care.

We work on the frontline across all specialities and support services, championing best practice and providing sustainable long term value by ensuring client teams are fully engaged and involved in every aspect of our change programmes.

Providers and commissioners already face enough financial apprehension, so we pride ourselves on being able to offer Newton’s services risk free by guaranteeing all our improvements on a no results, no fee basis.

 

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