HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2019: Best Emerging Solution for Patient Safety

Winner

Imperial College Health Partners, Oxford AHSN, patient safety measurement unit: Evaluating sepsis improvement programmes: the suspicion of sepsis insights dashboard

Lack of a gold standard diagnostic test or stable definition has hampered improvement in sepsis identification and care, and made it hard to measure progress. The Suspicion of Sepsis concept has helped to change that and has developed into a national dashboard.

Work focused on validating the SOS tool through academic papers, research into death certifications and using the hospital episode statistics database. SOS has been presented at key national meetings and has been widely adopted to measure and show improvement in outcomes in sepsis patients.

The development of this initiative has involved many clinicians in primary, secondary and tertiary care, as well as national bodies and academics. It is being used to define the at-risk infection population, and is being used to define sepsis, test biomarkers and identify high risk signals using artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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Finalists

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health FT: Response packs leading the way to better management of self-harm – HIGHLY COMMENDED
Calderdale Royal Hospital, Calderdale and Huddersfield FT: Acute Floor Initiative
Cheshire & Wirral Partnership FT: Use of digital technology to make medicines safer for patients with serious mental illness
Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch: Adapting police family liaison approaches for use in patient safety investigations.
Healum: Digital platform for personalised self-management of long-term conditions
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals FT: Ginty’s Goggles
Northumbria Healthcare FT: Scaling up quality improvement in surgical teams
Patient Safety Academy: Independent incident analysis and learning review
The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals FT and Dorset HealthCare University FT: Quick access to the Multidisciplinary Diabetes Foot Service Team saved my toe from amputation.