WINNER: Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board and Spirit Health: From Pilots to Pioneering Partnerships: Scaling up Virtual Wards to Transform Care Across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICS

How can virtual wards be scaled successfully from trust level to system wide, asked the project’s organisers. Built on years of partnership and virtual ward pilot programmes, Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care System and Spirit Health are now working to replicate previous successes to transform patient care across 16 clinical pathways. This pioneering project will support over 1 million people and aims to extend the scope, integration and use of a proven remote monitoring platform (Clinitouch) already established in LLR. Goals include improving patient outcomes, freeing up bed space and increasing LLR’s capacity – all whilst utilising digital health technology.

Read a detailed case study about this project at HSJ Solutions

Highly commended

  • Sheffield Children’s Foundation Trust: Sheffield Children’s Digital Resource Library

Finalists

  • Association for Perioperative Practice: Surgical Skin Prep Decision Tool
  • Barts Health Trust and SedateUK: SEDlog app: Moving From Paper to Digital Sedation Logbook
  • Gloucestershire Hospitals FT: Electronic Prescribing at Gloucestershire Hospitals
  • NHS England: NHS England Reproducible Analytical Pipelines Rollout
  • NHS Health Call: Digital Care Homes
  • North West Anglia FT and K2MS Digital Maternity Specialists: Digital Fetal Early Warning Score System (Digital FEWS) – Support to Deliver Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle Initiative in NHS
  • Surrey and Borders Partnership FT: Improving Handover Practice for Home Treatment Teams Using an SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation) Integrated into the Electronic Health Record

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Winners of first HSJ Digital Awards revealed