All HSJ Awards articles – Page 10
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Improvement in Emergency and Urgent Care
Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust – Children and young people’s ambulatory care experience Children and young people account for 30 per cent of emergency department attendances in Bradford. But in 70 per cent of these cases, the patient is discharged after an initial observation – only five per cent are ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Improving Care with Technology
Surrey and Borders Partnership Foundation Trust – Technology Integrated Health Management (TIHM) for dementia More than 930,000 people in the UK have dementia, a figure set to rise well above one million by 2025. One in four hospital beds are now occupied by someone with the disease, yet in many ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Improving Outcomes Through Learning and Development
Kingston Hospital Foundation Trust – Physiological CTG and human factors training to reduce early neonatal deaths and intrapartum brain damage In 2015 in the UK, 1,136 babies either died in labour, soon after birth, or sustained severe brain injury. In three quarters of those cases, different care might have led ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Innovation in Mental Health
East Midlands Academic Health Science Network – Transforming ADHD care across the East Midlands Sponsored by Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a common neurodevelopmental disorder which affects five per cent of school age children. It’s treatable, and early intervention significantly reduces the chance of the condition affecting an ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Optimisation of Medicines Management
AT Medics – Central pharmacy team Sponsored by Guidance on medicines optimisation is not in short supply. But at AT Medics – a provider of GP services to over 240,000 patients – a business intelligence tool demonstrated there was a significant gap between best practice and practical application. ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Patient Digital Participation
Chelsea and Westminster Foundation Trust – Dean Street PRIME 56 Dean Street, a sexual health service in central London, reaches more high risk gay men than any other UK clinic. Staff were aware that translated to a unique opportunity to reduce HIV transmission in this community. Dean Street PRIME was ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Patient Safety
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear Foundation Trust – Personality Disorder Hub Team The ward-based deaths of four patients with complex and co-morbid emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD) naturally left clinicians at Northumberland, Tyne and Wear FT striving to find ways to improve patient safety for this vulnerable group. Risk aversion meant ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Primary Care Innovation
Mid-Mersey A&E Delivery Board, Widnes Vikings, Renova Developments and Cheshire & Merseyside Health & Care Partnership – Beat the Scrum Sponsored by People in Halton – a region in north west England with a challenging socioeconomic makeup – have often not used the NHS in the most effective ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Staff Engagement
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust – LTHT People Sponsored by Historically, employee engagement has been a challenge at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust. In the 2014 national staff survey, the trust was below average on 18 key measures of engagement. The leadership team recognised that colleagues did not feel their ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: System Led Support for Carers
Hertfordshire and West Essex STP – A healthier future for carers Sponsored by A focus on supporting unpaid carers is nothing new for the organisations making up Hertfordshire and West Essex Sustainability and Transformation Partnership: a multiagency carers’ strategy actually began in Hertfordshire as far back as 1995. ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Trust of the Year
Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust Sponsored by No one could accuse leaders at Northamptonshire Healthcare FT of setting their sights low. The overall aim is to support change and growth both locally and on a national scale. Individual goals include demonstrably changing cultures to influence care; delivering innovations that ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Using Technology to Improve Efficiency
NeuroCoRe – Digitising dementia assessment Sponsored by Prompt dementia assessment is an established priority for both the government and the NHS. Traditionally the responsibility for these assessments has fallen to NHS memory clinics, but the huge increase in need for such services has seen waiting times significantly lengthen. ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Widening Participation
Royal United Hospitals Bath Foundation Trust in partnership with Virgin Care and Fosse Way School – Project SEARCH Sponsored by According to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, during the first part of 2018 less than a quarter of people with learning difficulties, a speech impediment or a ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Workforce
Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare Trust – Developing the role of staff nurses within health visiting Sponsored by The national Healthy Child Programme sets out a recommended framework for supporting child health and health promotion. But in 2015, staff at Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare Trust were aware ...
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NewsWinners of 2018 HSJ Awards revealed
The 38th annual HSJ Awards felicitated winners in 26 categories
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NewsTop NHS chief execs in running for HSJ award
Seven top NHS leaders have been shortlisted for chief executive of the year at the HSJ Awards 2018.
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HSJ InteractiveTeledermoscopy service reduces costs of routine dermatology services
Ingrid Torjesen reports on an award winning teledermoscopy service that escalates routine dermatology referrals from GPs to secondary care management
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HSJ InteractiveHome blood pressure monitoring is better for pregnant women and reduces use of NHS resources
Ingrid Torjesen reports on the award winning new care pathway, which uses a smartphone app for home monitoring of hypertension in pregnancy
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NewsSir Bruce Keogh to chair the HSJ Awards judges
Sir Bruce Keogh has become the first chair of judges for the annual HSJ Awards.