WINNER

North West London ICS

North West London AcuPebble Pathway for Straight-to-Test Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Diagnosis: Faster, Cheaper, Equitable, and Sustainable Diagnostic Modernisation

Patients with obstructive sleep apnoea wait up to two years for an NHS diagnostic test. Early diagnosis enables optimal treatment, mitigating risks including heart failure, lung disease and stroke. Current diagnostic approaches are expensive (£450), time-consuming, uncomfortable (cables/tubes/wires), and inequitable (multiple hospital visits). The winner’s sector has overcome all of these challenges through the highly disruptive and innovative North West London straight-to-test diagnostic pathway – modernised using automated AcuPebble technology. Within only six months the pathway has demonstrated exceptional clinical, health economic, health equity, workforce, and sustainability outcomes – and is now funded as the new standard of care.

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Highly commended: NHSE Genomic Unit, North Thames Genomic Medicine Service and North-East and Yorkshire Genomic Medicine Service: Integrating Circulating Tumour DNA Testing Into an NHS Diagnostic Pathway

Finalists:

  • Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance: Greater Manchester Chest X-Ray AI Pilot Project
  • All Wales Cellular Pathology Collaboration: Revolutionising Cellular Pathology in Wales Using Digital Imaging Combined With Artificial Intelligence
  • NHS England and The Hepatitis C Trust: The NHS Hepatitis C Online Testing Service
  • University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust: Modernising Diagnostic Stroke Imaging through Artificial Intelligence
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust: NPIC Digital Pathology Deployment
  • Barking Havering Redbridge University Hospitals Trust: Robotic Colonoscopy Helping a Paradigm Shift
  • North West London Pathology: Modernising Pathology Services Across a Young Network

 

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