All HSJ Awards articles – Page 4
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HSJ Value Awards 2020: Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Award
Winner The Great North Children’s Hospital, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust: The Kidzmed project - teaching children to swallow tablet medication The Kidzmed project was a quality improvement project to teach children and young people how to take tablet medication. Tablets are safer, more convenient and cheaper than ...
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HSJ Value Awards 2020: Respiratory Care Initiative of the Year
Winner University Hospitals of Derby and Burton Foundation Trust: ImpACT+ The ImpACT+ service is delivered by a team of respiratory consultants, specialist respiratory nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists along with admin and clinical support staff. The service has transformed specialist community respiratory services for people with Chronic Respiratory Disease living ...
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HSJ Value Awards 2020: Facilities Management or Estates Initiative of the Year
Winner University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust: The New Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals The project was set up to: design and build a new facility for the services provided at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital and the Eastman Dental Hospital; manage the move ...
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HSJ Value Awards 2020: Finance Team of the Year
Winner Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust: Finance Department Over the past 18 months the Sherwood Forest Hospital’s finance team has focused on ‘Working towards excellence’. To do this the team has embraced an initiative called Future-Focused Finance (FFF), which is about improving NHS finance for everyone; recognising the need for ...
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HSJ Value Awards 2020: IT & Digital Innovation Award
Winner Focus Games and NHS Partners: FluBee Game The Flu Bee Game is designed to improve vaccination rates by engaging, educating and encouraging staff to get vaccinated. The game presents flu facts, busts vaccine myths and tells players where and how they can get vaccinated in their organisation. The game ...
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HSJ Value Awards 2020: Operations and Performance Initiative of the Year
Winner Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust: Clinical Coding Transformation Programme - Getting it right for outpatients, our staff and our trust The Clinical Coding team are vitally important for Kettering as clinically coded data forms the bedrock of information they have on their patients. The trust is on a journey ...
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HSJ Value Awards 2020: People & Organisational Development Initiative of the Year
Winner Black Country Healthcare Foundation Trust: Cultural Ambassador Programme The Cultural Ambassador programme was an opportunity to make a difference and challenge any unconscious bias and discrimination that may occur for those black, Asian and minority ethnic employees entering or during formal HR processes. The Cultural Ambassador’s project in partnership ...
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HSJ Value Awards 2020: Acute Service Redesign Initiative
Winner Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care Foundation Trust and Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council: Integrated Urgent Care Team - Home First The Integrated Urgent Care Team now work together with other transformation services to support older people living in the community in an integrated model of care to deliver ‘integrated urgent ...
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HSJ Value Awards 2020: HSJ Value Award of the Year
Winner Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust: Vocational Rehabilitation Service including the Job Taster Programme Just one in four people suffering from a long-term mental illness are in work. Mental health problems at work cost the economy £34.9bn with a cost to business of £26bn each year. ...
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HSJ Value Awards 2020: Mental Health Service Redesign Initiative
Winner Cheshire and Wirral Partnership Foundation Trust, Eastern Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group, South Cheshire CCG and Vale Royal CCG: Redesigning adult and older people’s mental health services Covering the populations of Cheshire East and Vale Royal (7,000 people accessing specialist mental health services), this redesign is centred on service users, ...
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HSJ Value Awards 2020: Primary Care or Community Service Redesign Initiative
Winner Primary Integrated Community Services (PICS): Acute Home Visiting Service The Acute Home Visiting Service is a responsive and effective home visiting service for patients that prevents them attending accident and emergency and relieves GP workload. Any housebound or care home patient requiring an acute same day visit from a ...
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HSJ Value Awards 2020: Specialist Service Redesign Initiative
Winner Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care Foundation Trust: Place Based Paediatrics The place based paediatric offer across Tameside and Glossop consists of a number of initiatives that support children and their families being seen and treated by the most appropriate professional, at the right time and in the right place: ...
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HSJ Value Awards 2020: System or Commissioner Led Service Redesign Initiative
Winner West Hampshire Clinical Commissioning Group, Wessex AHSN, Somerset CCG, Kernow CCG: RESTORE2 - right care, right place, right time for care home residents RESTORE2 is a project to support staff in care and nursing homes to proactively recognise and manage physical deterioration in order to improve resident experience and ...
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Winners revealed for HSJ Value Awards 2020
The star performers in this year’s HSJ Value Awards - which celebrate the work of NHS teams across the areas of transformation, clinical and medical services, and operational and corporate services - have now been announced
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HSJ Awards postponed until March
This year’s HSJ Awards ceremony is being moved from November to March because of the covid pandemic.
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Using technology to bring people together
London North West University Hospital Trust’s emergency department, winner of the Driving Efficiency Through Technology category at the 2019 HSJ Awards, replaced a paper-based system with an ePortering solution. Jennifer Trueland reports how the move streamlined operations
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Award winning support for veterans and reservists
Jennifer Trueland explores the steps Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust took to put people with forces experience at the heart of the organisation’s wider decision-making process
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Mobilising volunteers to tackle health inequalities
A joint project by Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust and Staffordshire County Council, winner of the Health and Local Government Partnership category at the 2019 HSJ Awards, is running eight community libraries that serve deprived communities. Jennifer Trueland finds out more about their impact
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Reducing delayed discharge with real time data
A discharge to assess project, led by the then South Cheshire CCG, winner of the Connecting Services and Information category at the 2019 HSJ Awards, created a single system-wide portal that provides real-time data on patient status. Jennifer Trueland finds out how it has improved patient and staff experience
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Working to achieve better management of patients with type 2 diabetes
A population health model for people with type 2 diabetes won Hampshire System Integrator the System Leadership Initiative of the Year category at the 2019 HSJ Awards. Jennifer Trueland explores the approach underpinning their success