WINNER

The Royal Marsden FT: The Senior Adult Oncology Programme

The Royal Marsden Senior Adult Oncology Programme is the first multidisciplinary team MDT-led, consultative, geriatric oncology service implemented in a tertiary cancer centre in the UK. This service offers comprehensive geriatric assessment to patients aged more than 70 considered for systemic anticancer therapy assessed based on a validated geriatric screening tool – SAOP3. The SAOP MDT includes a consultant medical oncologist and clinical lead, a clinical nurse specialist and project lead, a physiotherapist and rehabilitation lead, an occupational therapist, a dietitian, a pharmacist, a speech and language therapist, and a medical secretary.

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Northern Care Alliance Trust and the Four Localities Partnership: Improving Care for People With Dementia Across an Acute Hospital Discharge Pathway

Finalists

University Hospital of North Midlands Trust: Older Adults Diversional Therapist Pilot

Orpington PCN: Orpington PCN Wellbeing Cafe

Coastal Medical Partnership: Care Home Assessment Team

Salisbury FT: Acute Frailty Unit

Tameside and Glossop FT: ME in DeMEntia

Tameside and Glossop FT: Delirium Improvement Project (DIP)

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston FT: Establishing an Activity Coordinator to Improve the Safety of Older Adults in the Acute Hospital Setting

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