WINNER: Hospice Collaborative Partnership (Farleigh Hospice, Havens Hospices, St Luke’s Hospice) & NHS Mid and South Essex ICB: Hospice Rapid Access Service

The Hospice Rapid Access Service is a 24-hour hospice-inspired care pathway for adults in Mid and South Essex, providing care in a hospice, care home or the community. Developed by Farleigh Hospice, Havens Hospices, and St Luke’s Hospice in partnership with their local ICB, it supports the NHS’s long-term plan to improve personalised palliative and end-of-life care and reduce health inequalities. It aims to ease demand on health and social care systems, helping more people achieve their preferred place of care and death, improve quality of life, reduce anxiety for families, and reduce inappropriate hospital admissions and stays.

Highly commended:

The Martin Gallier Project & Cheshire And Wirral Partnership: Preventing Suicides, Breaking Down Stigmas And Supporting Families In Partnership With The NHS

Finalists

Anne Robson Trust & Mid Cheshire Hospitals FT: Companionship And Support For Dying Patients

Citizens Advice Winchester District And The Hampshire & Isle Of Wight Healthcare FT: Solving Problems, Transforming Lives: Addressing The Underlying Triggers Of Mental Health Crisis

RNIB Working With Primary Eyecare Services And With The West Yorkshire Health And Care Partnership ICS: Integrating Information, Advice And Support Into Primary Eye Care Pathways

Social Finance: Oxfordshire Rapid Intervention For Palliative And End Of Life Care Project

Spectrum Community Health CIC & County Durham And Darlington FT: Bridging Care Through Collaboration: Virtual Ward At HMP Frankland

United Welsh And Aneurin Bevan University Health Board: The Acorn Service And The Bespoke Repatriation Service – Hiraeth

Wellbeing Enterprises CIC And NHS Cheshire And Merseyside: Wellbeing Enterprises CIC – Re-Socialising Healthcare

Topics

Winners of HSJ Partnership and inaugural Independent Healthcare Providers Awards revealed