Value in Healthcare Awards winners for 2015

Finalists

  • Vitality Partnership: Vitality Health Hub – digital transformation for Birmingham and Sandwell – winner
  • Barts Health Trust: Referapatient® – an online platform streamlining the complex and inefficient process of making acute referrals
  • Derby Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust: Derby’s Deep scan – the theatre barcode revolution
  • Intelesant and University Hospital of South Manchester FT: Online Frailty Checkups in the community
  • Northern Lincolnshire and Goole FT: Using electronic smart locks to improve medicine security and release nursing time to patient care
  • Nottingham University Hospitals Trust – NUH Guidelines App – Improving accessibility to clinical guidelines at the point of care for all healthcare professionals
  • Oxford University Hospitals Trust: Automatic Robotic dispensing from EPR for To Take Out (TTO) Medications
  • Working Together Programme: Providing Fast and Efficient Access to Patient Test Results across Hospital Sites

Vitality Partnership: Vitality Health Hub – digital transformation for Birmingham and Sandwell

The judges said: “This project has addressed one of the big problems facing the health service today – access to and availability of primary healthcare services. It demonstrates not just how to bring multiple GP practices together in an effective partnership but also how to use technology to directly improve patient experience and enable primary care service to work more efficiently.”

The Vitality Partnership is a multiple winner at this year’s Value Awards, coming top in two other categories: Patient Information Management, and Implementation of IT to Support Healthcare Business Efficiency.

Following a phased introduction in 2014 the Vitality Health Hub now enables patients to access digital healthcare through the use of an online booking system, telephone and Skype consultations, electronic prescriptions, and real-time onward referral.

Funded by the prime minister’s challenge fund, the Hub also allows patients to access:

  • Digital condition specific content and programmes of care that are delivered by local clinicians;
  • real-time onward referral and booking with community specialists;
  • real-time patient feedback and,
  • online personal care and planning tools.

Patients are able to access the Vitality website and view video guides on specific health conditions. Vitality has also created an app that allows patients to request instant access to appointments on the go.

The team plans to create additional digital pathways of care and potential expansion in other areas of provision such as community and social care.

Finalists

  • Barts Health Trust: Referapatient® – an online platform streamlining the complex and inefficient process of making acute referrals
  • Derby Teaching Hospitals FT: Derby’s Deep scan – the theatre barcode revolution
  • Intelesant and University Hospital of South Manchester FT: Online Frailty Checkups in the community
  • Northern Lincolnshire and Goole FT: Using electronic smart locks to improve medicine security and release nursing time to patient care
  • Nottingham University Hospitals Trust – NUH Guidelines App – Improving accessibility to clinical guidelines at the point of care for all healthcare professionals
  • Oxford University Hospitals Trust: Automatic Robotic dispensing from EPR for To Take Out (TTO) Medications
  • Working Together Programme: Providing Fast and Efficient Access to Patient Test Results across Hospital Sites

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