HSJ Awards 2018 finalists announced

The finalists for the 2018 HSJ Awards:

Acute or Specialist Services Redesign - North/Midlands/East

• Birmingham and Solihull FT, Reach Out
• Diagnostic Imaging Department, Nottingham University Hospital, Ambulatory Lung Biopsy Pathway
• Ipswich Hospital Trust, OPAT service development
• Manchester University FT, Macmillan Breast Cancer Rehabilitation Project
• Manchester University FT, Wythenshawe Hospital, RAPID Programme (Rapid Access to Pulmonary Investigations and Diagnosis)
• Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust – part of the Northern Care Alliance, & Rochdale Borough Council, Discharge to Assess: Home in a Day Team
• Principia Multi-Specialty Community Provider, Rushcliffe Elective Care Community Pathways Redesign
• The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn FT, Launch of Midwife Led Pathway

Acute or Specialist Services Redesign - London and the South

• Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital and North West Surrey CCG, Integrated iMSK Service
• Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Trust, EMPOWER
• Connecting Care for Children, Imperial College Healthcare, Recognising the Full Resource in the NHS, in Citizens and in Communities
• Hampshire Hospitals FT, Improving the care of frail patients at the Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital
• Kings College Hopsital FT, Transformation of KCH Spinal Neurosurgery Services - looking in, looking out
• Northern Devon Healthcare, North Devon Integrated Diabetes Service – optimal diabetes management co-designed by specialists, primary care and patients
• Oxford Health FT, Thames Valley and Wessex Forensic Network - Tertiary Mental Health New Care Model
• Surrey and Borders Partnership FT, Intensive Support Service for People with a Learning Disability
• University Hospital Southampton FT, Improving cancer patient treatment with a Rapid Access Multidisciplinary Palliative Assessment and Radiotherapy Treatment clinic
• University Hospitals Bristol FT, Arrhythmia Advanced Nurse Practitioner Outreach Service

Acute Sector Innovation

• Barts Health Trust and Survivors UK, Clinic26 - The first clinic in the country for men who have experienced historical sexual abuse
• NHS Mid-Mersey A&E Delivery Board, Widnes Vikings, Renova Developments, and Cheshire and Mereyside Health and Care Partnership, Beat The Scrum
• Northumbria Healthcare FT, HIP QIP Breakthrough Series Collaborative - Redesigning hip fracture care at scale
• Northumbria Healthcare FT, Quality Improvement for Surgical teams (QIST) – spreading best practice at scale
• RM Partners, hosted by The Royal Marsden, in collaboration with Imperial College Healthcare Trust, St George’s Healthcare Trust and Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Rapid Access to Prostate Imaging and Diagnosis (RAPID)
• Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust, A Nurse-led intervention to improve identification and management of patients with Alcohol Related Brain Injury
• St. George’s University Hospitals FT, Improving Patient Safety with More Rapid Flu Testing Technology in the Emergency Department (ED)
• The Dudley Group of Hospitals Trust, Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Treatment of Zenkers Diverticulum
• The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn FT, WireSafe: preventing the never event of guidewire retention
• University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust, Arrhythmia Advanced Nurse Practitioner Outreach Service

Chief Executive of The Year

• Chelsea and Westminster Hospital FT, Lesley Watts
• Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership Trust, Mark Axcell
• Herts Valleys CCG, Kathryn Magson
• Hull CCG, Emma Latimer
• North East Ambulance Service FT, Yvonne Ormston
• Royal Free Charity, Chris Burgh
• West London Health Trust, Carolyn Regan

Clinical Leader of The Year

• Aneurin Bevan University Health Board - Consultant Nurse Child Health - Family and Therapies Division, Sian Thomas
• Central and North West London FT, Dr Jo Emmanuel
• East Sussex Healthcare Trust, Anita Smith
• Organ Donation and Transplantation, NHS Blood Transplant, Anthony John Clarkson
• Outpatient Therapies and Joint Health Service Lead at Southport and Ormskirk Hospitals Trust, Ms Jan Wilson
• South Tyneside CCG, Dr Jim Gordon
• South West Yorkshire Partnership FT & Leeds Community Healthcare Trust, Dr Abdullah Kraam
• University Hospital of North Midlands Trust, Dr. Amit Arora

Community or Primary Care Services Redesign - North/Midlands/East

• Barnsley CCG, Transforming Intermediate Care by Alliance working
• Conexus Healthcare, Care Navigation - National Consultancy & Training Programme
• Ipswich and East Suffolk Alliance, Discharge to Assess Programme (D2A) - Short Term Assessment Reablement & Rehabilitation (STARR) Centre
• LLR Alliance, LLR Community Endoscopy Redesign Project
• Mersey Care FT, Personality Disorder Hub
• Modality Partnership, Community Outpatients services
• SDS MyHealthcare, SDS MyHealthcare Virtual Community Clinics in collaboration with other NHS, Health and Social Care providers
• South Tees Hospitals FT, North of England Regional Back Pain and Radicular Pain Pathway
• University Hospitals Birmingham FT, Umbrella Health

Community or Primary Care Services Redesign - London and the South

• Hastings and Rother CCG, Hastings Safe Space
• London Borough of Newham, The Magpie Project
• Medway CCG, Involving Medway Community Development
• Neighbourhood Midwives, Midwifery Continuity of Carer Pilot
• Newham CCG, Newham latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) screening and treatment programme
• Newham Health Collaborative, Newham Health Collaborative Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) Service
• Surrey Downs CCG, Comminity Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinic
• Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership, Pregnancy Advice Line
• Torbay and South Devon FT, Our community, Our Patient. Our Problem. Our Solution. Fully integrated local health, social and voluntary care in South Devon
• Transforming Cancer Services Team for London, Redesigning primary care management of cancer as a long term condition

Compassionate Patient Care

• Access Health Care, Clock Tower Surgery, Exeter
• Brighton and Sussex Universities Hospitals Trust and Wishing Well Music in Healthcare,Wishing Well at the Alex - Making Music in Children’s Critical Care
• Gloucestershire CCG, Improving End of Life Care in Gloucestershire
• NHS RightCare, High Intensity User Programme: A de-medicalised, de-criminalised and humanised approach
• Norfolk Community Health and Care, Frequent Attenders Health Improvement Service
• Northumbria Healthcare FT, Palliative Care Northumbria
• Northumbria Healthcare FT, Developing a birth reflection service (BRS), with timely access to psychological interventions for perinatal trauma
• Parkinson’s Team Cardiff and Vale, Establishing a bespoke dementia clinic for people with Parkinson’s
• Royal Berkshire Hospital FT, Leading the way in patient leadership
• Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG, Connected Palliative Care Service

Creating A Supportive Staff Culture

• East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, Engage to Make A Difference
• Local care Force Nursing Team, Agency Nurses Protect yourselves, protect your patients
• Mersey Care FT, Implementing a Just and Learning Culture
• Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust, Using an online staff platform to change Values and Culture
• North East Ambulance Service FT, Delivering Cultural Change Across North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
• South West Academic Health Science Network with frontline teams from across the South West region, Improving Safety Culture- a whole system approach in South West England
• Midlands Partnership FT, Freedom to Speak Up
• The Eye Treatment Centre, Whipps Cross University Hospital, Barts Health Trust, The Eye Treatment Centre and Organisational Development: Bringing People Together
• The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, #Letsremoveit Anti Bullying & Undermining Campaign
• Worcestershire Health and Care Trust, Occupational Therapy Student Placement to Support and Enhance Staff Wellbeing

Enhancing Care by Sharing Data and Information

• Age UK South Gloucestershire in collaboration with NHS Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire CCG, Age UK South Gloucestershire Personalised Integrated Care (PIC) Service
• Aire Logic and Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, Who shares, wins: PPM+ shared EHR platform
• Great Yarmouth and Waveney CCG, Reducing clinical variation through the use of a GP dashboard
• Health and Care Impact Network, NHS Quicker: providing real time information for your urgent care problem from where you are
• Imperial College Health Partners, Oxford Healthcare Improvement/Oxford AHSN Patient Safety collaborative, Wessex Patient Safety Collaborative and the Patient Safety Measurement Unit , Evaluating Sepsis Improvement Programmes- The Suspicion of Sepsis dashboard
• NIHR Clinical Research Networks Business Intelligence Team, The Nation’s Research Data at the Click of a Mouse
• NEL, FGM London and Nationwide Intervention Programme
• Northumbria Healthcare FT, Northumbria – Sharing Data to Support Safe and Efficient Patient Discharge
• Sherwood Forest Hospital Foundation Trust, Reasonable Adjustments and More for patients with a Leanring Disability
• South East Coast Ambulance Service FT, SECAmb’s Intelligence Based Information System (IBIS) on iPads

HSJ Partnership of The Year

• Bank Partners (Part of the Independent Clinical Services Group), Reduction of Agency Spend at the Royal London Hospital (part of Barts Health NHS Trust)
• BBI (Europe) (Bruin Biometrics) , Prevention Made Real - Using SEM Scanner to achieve zero or near zero pressure ulcers
• Carnall Farrar, Evidence based analytics to improve mental health
• Carnall Farrar, Whole system change across the Devon STP
• Circle Health, Circle MSK
• ESRconnect, ESR Connect Spreadsheet
• Hill Dickinson, Hill Dickinson Legal Services Provider of the Year entry
• Plan B Solutions partnered with Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG, Half a Billion Pounds - Grasping the First Nettle
• Sodexo, Sodexo and University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
• Urgo Medical, Urgo Clinical Pathway Support Service

Improved Partnerships Between Health and Local Government

• Berkshire West First Stop Service Partnership Group (Berkshire West CCG, Reading Borough Council, Thames Valley Police, South Central Ambulance Service and Reading Minster Church) , Berkshire West First Stop Service
• Co Durham Youth Offending Service (CDYOS), Co-Commissioned Health model – Effective Partnership working
• East Lancashire Hospitals Trust and Lancashire County Council, Home First
• First Choice Homes Oldham, Hospital 2 Home
• Gateshead Care Partnership, Gateshead Care Partnership
• Guys and St Thomas’ Trust with Lambeth Council and Lambeth CCG ,Lambeth Integrated Reablement Team
• Norwich Escalation Avoidance Team (NEAT), Norwich Escalation Avoidance Team (NEAT)
• Sheffield Children’s Trust, A Model for City-wide Implementation of Intensive Behavioural Intervention to Improve Sleep in Vulnerable Children
• Swindon Borough Council with Great Western Hospital FT and Swindon CCG, Integrated Discharge Planning and Reablement
• University Hospitals of Leicester Trust, Replacing adult invasive autopsy with post-mortem computed tomography

Improvement in Emergency and Urgent Care

• Barts Health Trust, London’s Air Ambulance and London Ambulance Service, The Physician Response Unit: ‘Taking the Emergency Department to the Patient’
• CYP ACE Team at Bradford Teaching Hospitals FT, Children and Young Persons Ambulatory Care Experience (ACE Service)
• Healthy London Partnership and the Metropolitan Police Service Handover process for Voluntary Mental Health patients in Emergency Departments
• Milton Keynes CCG, Taking Control: Milton Keynes High Intensity User Scheme
• North East Essex CCG, High Intensity User (HIU) Project
• North West London CCGs and Greenbrook Healthcare, Urgent Treatment Centres - North West London
• Northern Care Alliance and North West Ambulance Service, Heywood, Middleton & Rochdale Emergency Assessment & Treatment Team
• The Pennine Acute Hospitals, North Manchester General Hospital , Co-design and Co-production of an innovative Sensory Space in the Children’s Emergency Department
• Partnership of East London Co-operatives (PELC), Integrating Primary and Urgent Care in East London
• West Midlands Fire Service, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, Back Home Safe and Well

Improving Care with Technology

• Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Collaborative Approach to Supporting Transfers of Sick Children and Babies to Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Units
• Chesterfield Royal Hospital FT, Ensuring the safe and efficient management of medicines on the ward
• Manchester Universtity FT, Macmillan Breast Cancer Rehabilitation Project
• Mersey Care FT in partnership with Otsuka Health Solutions, Technological Transformation in Mental Health
• NAViGO Health and Social Care CIC, Safety in Sight – A Low Cost Innovation for Improving Patient Safety, Supporting Clinicians with High Caseloads
• Oxleas FT, Developing a shared care digital platform, with and for, children and young people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Salford Royal FT, Patient Pass Renal Referral System
• Surrey and Borders Partnership FT, TIHM (Technology Integrated Health Management) for dementia
• The Hurley Group eHub Team, Using a clinically-led central eHub to maximise effectiveness of online consultations and meet the needs of >100,000 patients
• Western Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Ireland, PRECISION FOR PHARMACY

Improving Outcomes Through Learning and Development

• AT Learning, EZ Doc - Workflow Optimisation
• Health Education England and the National Institute for Health Research , The HEE/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Programme
• Kilburn Primary Care Co-op, Dementia Care Kilburn Partnerships in Innovative Education (PIE)
• Kingston Hospital FT - Maternity, Physiological CTG and Human Factors training to Reduce early neonatal deaths and intrapartum brain damage
• Liverpool Health Partners: North West Coast Genomics Education Group, Liverpool Health Partners(LHP): Bringing Genomics to Healthcare across the North-West Coast (NWC) – educating staff and patients
• Royal United Hospitals Bath FT, Increasing capacity and capability in Quality Improvement resulting in improved patient care across the organisation
• Soar Beyond - i2i Network, i2i Network for GP Practice Pharmacists
• The NEPTUNE Project, Central and North West London FT, The NEPTUNE Project (Novel Psychoactive Treatment UK Network)
• West Midlands Leadership Academy, Health Education England, Forward Thinking Leaders: Developing inclusive compassionate leaders and communities to deliver an NHS for tomorrow

Innovation in Mental Health

• Barts Health Trust, Celebrating Difference: Improving psychological well-being in children and young people with chronic physical illness
• East Midlands Academic Health Science Network, Transforming ADHD Care Across the East Midlands
• Healthy London Partnership and South London and Maudsley FT, Implementation of the s136 pan-London new model of care
• Hertfordshire Partnership University FT, May Contain Nuts Theatre Group
• Humber Teaching FT - Social Mediation and Self-Help, SMASH
• King’s College Hospital FT, 3 Dimensions for Long Term Conditions
• North East Essex CCG, Tendring Mental Health Hub
• Northamptonshire Healthcare FT, Body worn cameras on mental health wards - A feasibility study
• Northumbria Healthcare FT, Developing a Health Psychology and Mental Health Service Pathway, and midwifery led birth reflection service (BRS)
• Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry and Plymouth Hospitals Trust, Supporting mental health teams in screening for dementia - ACEmobile
• Principia Multi-Specialty Community Provider, Successfully Managing Persistent Physical and Mental Medically Unexplained Symptoms in Primary Care

Optimisation of Medicines Management

• AT Medics, Central Pharmacy Team at Scale
• Cambridge University Hospitals FT, Electronic medication and pharmacy optimisation
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG, Self-care & Over the Counter Medicines
• Central London Community Healthcare Trust and Herts Valley CCG, An integrated approach to optimise home oxygen
• Lambeth CCG, Southwark CCG and Kings College Hospital, Pharmacist Led Virtual Clinics to Improve Rates of Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrillation in General Practice
• Medicines for Children: a partnership project between the RCPCH, NPPG and WellChild, Medicines for Children
• Medicines Optimisation Team, Southwark CCG, Multi-factrorial approach to Antimicrobial Stewardship
• NHS England Specialised Commissioning, Recombinant Factor VIII (8) for Haemophilia A: National (UK) procurement and implementation
• North East Essex Diabetes Service (Suffolk GP Federation), Diabetes Virtual Ward
• Northumbria Healthcare FT, Pharmacy integrated care: a shifting paradigm
• Sussex Community FT, Medicines Optimisation for Care Homes Service, Medicines Optimisation for Care Homes Service

Patient Digital Participation

• Airedale FT, Airedale Stammering Therapy
• Buckinghamshire CCG and Oviva, Improving Patient Digital Participation in Diabetes Education
• Chelsea and Westminster FT, Dean Street PRIME
• KiActiv® and Gloucestershire CCG, Improving Diabetes Self-Management using Technology
• MedicSpot, MedicSpot - Personalised Digital Healthcare from Pharmacies
• mHabitat, Leeds and York Partnership FT & Leeds Community Healthcare Trust , Let Me Show You - improving transitions for young people with complex needs through technology
• North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust, Autographer
• Surrey and Borders Partnership FT, TIHM (Technology Integrated Health Management) for dementia
• Weight Watchers UK in partnership with the London Borough of Bromley and Bromley CCG, Weight Watchers Diabetes Prevention Programme in Bromley
• West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust, iSeeU Baby

Patient Safety

• Birmingham Community Healthcare FT, Reducing falls in a rehabilitation setting
• Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust, Use of Enhanced Mortality Review to Improve Patient Safety for Future Populations
• Cambridge University Hospitals FT, Using digital technology to improve sepsis care and save lives
• Healthy London Partnership and The Metropolitan Police , Handover process for Voluntary Mental Health patients in Emergency Departments
• Homerton University Hospital Trust, Can Improvement Be Maintained? Sepsis Recognition and Care Quality Improvement at Homerton University Hospital in the ED and Acu
• Mersey Care FT, Reducing self-harm on inpatient wards
• Northumberland Tyne and Wear FT, Personality Disorder Hub team
• Portsmouth Hospitals Trust, Your patient is deteriorating, it’s Time to ACT
• Royal United Hospitals Bath FT, Improved outcomes for inpatients developing Sepsis and AKI using Quality Improvement methodology
• Sheffield Teaching Hospitals FT, Department of Obstetric Anaesthesia, The development and implementation of a general anaesthesia airway safety checklist for casearean section patients

Primary Care Innovation

• Access Health Care - CareSnap, CareSnap
• AT Medics, Influenza Vaccination Coverage - AT Medics
• Derby and Derbyshire Suicide Prevention Partnership Forum, Suicide Prevention: Reaching Primary Care
• Gloucestershire Hospitals FT, Managing Adult Malnutrition in GP Practice: A Service Evaluation
• MedicSpot,MedicSpot - Facilitating pharmacies to provide healthcare closer to the patient’s doorstep
• Mid-Mersey AandE Delivery Board, WIdnes Vikings, Renova Developments, and Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership, Beat The Scrum
• Parchmore Medical Centre,Transformation to Reduce Emergency Admissions and Hospital Outpatient referrals appropriately, and rapid Social Prescribing implementation
• Pen-y-Bont Health, Using a Collaborative Approach to standardise care across a Federation of General Practices
• Transforming Cancer Services Team for London, Optimising Clinical Practice and Systems

Trust of The Year

• Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust, Turning our ambitious strategic plans into reality
• Gateshead Health FT,
• London Ambulance Service Trust,
• Northamptonshire Healthcare FT, We are NHFT
• The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital FT, Caring for Patients, Caring for Staff, Caring for Finances
• The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals FT, Leading for Continuous Improvement

Staff Engagement

• CapitalNurse, jointly sponsored by Health Education England, NHS England and NHS Improvement, CapitalNurse Urgent & Emergency Care Qualification in Specialism
• County Durham and Darlington FT, Excellence Reports
• Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership Trust, Staff Engagment @ Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
• Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, LTHT People
• Milton Keynes University Hospital FT, Event in the Tent
• NHS Barnsley CCG, Radiators (not drains)
• NHS Chorley and South Ribble CCG and NHS Greater Preston CCG, Engaging staff in the operational plan to achieve our financial savings
• Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust, Using an online staff platform to change Values and Culture
• Peterborough Maternity Unit, North West Anglia Trust, Human factors training: Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success – our experience at Peterborough Maternity Unit
• Sheffield Teaching Hospitals FT, Improving Wellbeing to Drive Staff Engagement
• University Hospitals of Leicester Trust, The UHL Way – Our Journey

System Led Support for Carers

• Carers Leeds, Support for Carers of Older People in Leeds Teaching Hospitals
• Dumfries and Galloway in partnership with Carers Trust Scotland, Improving Patient and Carer Experience - Carers as Equal Partners in Care
• Hertfordshire and West Essex STP Partnership, A Healthier Future for Carers: Herts and West Essex STP carers’ partnership: integrating vision, pathways and support
• Lincolnshire Carers Service, Lincolnshire Carers Service – Widening the reach
• West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership, West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership Carers Programme
• Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care System, Surrey Heartlands: Together for Carers
• The Ipswich Hospital Trust and Suffolk Family Carers, Caring 4 Carers @ Ipswich Hospital

Using Technology to Improve Efficiency

• Aire Logic and Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, On top form - Aire Logic & LTHT’s eForm solution
• Eastern Academic Health Science Network and West Suffolk FT, Improving operational efficiency for patients with Medic Bleep
• Genomics England, The 100,000 Genomes Project
• LocumTap, Digital Transformation of the Staff Bank
• Mid Essex CCG, Using Facebook advertising to improve referrals to local IAPT service
• NeuroCoRe, Digitising dementia assessment to improve efficiency, accuracy and research
• Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG, Ask NHS
• Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust, Using an online staff platform to change Values and Culture
• The Hurley Group eHub Team, Using a clinically-led central eHub to maximise effectiveness of online consultations and meet the needs of >100,000 patients
• Wessex Clinical Networks and Senate, MBU WebBeds

Widening Participation

• Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, Recruitment of overseas trained nurses who are living in the UK
• Barts Health Trust, East London Health Careers Project
• Lancashire Teaching Hospitals FT, LIFE (Learning Inspiration for Future Employment)
• Livewell Southwest CIC, Paid Work Placements
• Royal United Hospitals Bath FT Project SEARCH partnership with, Virgin Care and Fosse Way School, Project Search
• Surrey Downs CCG, Quality in Care Homes
• University Hospitals of North Mildands Trust, UHNM Staffordshire Whole Population Health (SWPH) programme

Workforce

• AT Medics, Medical Assistants delivering Influenza Immunisations
• East and North Hertfordshire CCG, Tackling the workforce crisis: Empowering and inspiring our primary care staff
• Health Education England, The Rotating Paramedic Programme
• Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare Trust, An innovative skill-mix model for health visiting services; developing the role of staff nurses within health visiting
• Mid Yorkshire Trust, iDevelopment and Implementation of a Leg ulcer treatment Pathway
• NHS Gloucestershire CCG, The Health Inequalities Fellowship and Newly Qualified GP schemes
• Royal Berkshire FT, Transforming the Elderly Care workforce at the Royal Berkshire Hospital
• South London Mental Health and Community Partnership, Nursing Development Programme
• South Tees Hospitals FT and Macmillan Cancer Support, A new Macmillan Cancer Care Co-ordinator workforce that is supporting improvements on the 62 day standard and patient experience