All Health Service Journal articles in May 2019 – Page 7
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Clinical support services award
Winner Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust: Creating a chaplaincy for the 21st century – a multifaith and belief service Chaplaincy services at Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust were traditionally focused on the Christian faith and had not kept up with the changes in the population it served. In the course of a year, the ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: NHS support service initiative of the year
Winner Devon Doctors: 111 step-in service for over 75s Devon Doctors was asked to help the 111 provider in Somerset to cope with winter pressures by setting up an alternative route for patients who are over 75 or under one. The 111 support service, which was established within six weeks, ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Pharmacy and medicines optimisation award
Winner Salford Royal Foundation Trust: Salford polycystic kidney disease multidisciplinary clinic – pharmacy-led drug education and management When a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence-approved treatment for polycystic kidney disease became available in 2015, Salford Royal FT set up specialist clinics and ensured patients had information to help them ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Facilities and estates management award
Winner Barts Health Trust waste management team: Exemplar waste compliance and staff behavioural change project The waste management team at Barts Health Trust – a partnership with Skanska’s waste contracted management service – has worked with staff to reduce both the cost and amount of clinical waste disposal, by ensuring ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Effective litigation management award
Winner East London Foundation Trust: An embedded and sustained “no blame” culture has resulted in marked reductions in the length of time clinical claims take to settle Changing the culture has helped East London FT settle clinical negligence claims in just over half the time it takes nationally – 2.29 ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Training and development initiative of the year
Winner Harrow PACT project: Planning together with care homes residents Care home residents may be admitted to hospital at the end of life because their wishes are not known or staff feel ill-equipped to engage with advance care planning. This project offered training to care home staff to enable them ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Improving value in the care of older patients award
Winner Harrow Planning And Caring Together (PACT) project: Planning together with care homes residents Care home residents may be admitted to hospital at the end of life because their wishes are not known or staff feel ill-equipped to engage with advance care planning. This project offered training to care home ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Communication initiative award
Winner South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust: #allofus wellbeing campaign Raising awareness of the help available to staff to look after themselves ensured South West Yorkshire Partnership FT achieved its staff wellbeing commissioning for quality and innovation and led to greater use of support services, such as physiotherapy and occupational ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Improving the value of diagnostic services award
Winner University of Nottingham and Nottingham University Hospitals Trust: The scarred liver project The University of Nottingham and Nottingham University Hospitals Trust have developed a new diagnostic pathway to identify patients with chronic liver disease. Those with risk factors – hazardous alcohol use and/or type 2 diabetes – are invited ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Surgical services initiative of the year
Winner Norfolk and Norwich University Foundation Trust: Robotic assisted colorectal service The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital FT adopted robotic surgery for colorectal cases, giving patients the benefits of minimally invasive surgery and making savings for the trust. Irshad Shaikh set up the service after completing training in his own ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Diabetes care initiative of the year
Winner Barking and Dagenham Clinical Commissioning Group: Tackling inequalities in diabetes care in Barking and Dagenham – local improvement scheme The 37 practices in Barking and Dagenham CCG have improved their care of diabetic patients with 67.2 per cent of patients receiving the eight care processes recommended by National Institute ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Emergency, urgent and trauma care efficiency initiative of the year
Winner Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care Foundation Trust: Tameside and Glossop digital health service Care home residents who become unwell in Tameside and Glossop are now assessed remotely before a GP or an ambulance is called, enabling many of them to stay at home at a lower cost to the ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Technology initiative of the year
Winner East Midlands Ambulance Service Trust and GoodSAM: Improving cardiac arrest survival with crowd-sourced CPR Sponsored by East Midlands Ambulance Service Trust introduced a GoodSAM app which allowed it to alert 2,000 people trained in CPR if there was an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest close to them. In ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Financial or procurement initiative of the year
Winner Chelsea and Westminster and Royal Marsden Shared Procurement Service: Standardisation of wound care formulary Standardising the wound care products used across six acute, three community and a mental health trust in North West London has yielded annual savings of £840,000 without impacting on quality. A clinically-led selection process was ...
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HSJ AwardsWinners revealed for HSJ Value Awards 2019
Twenty organisations have been honoured in the 2019 HSJ Value Awards – which recognise and celebrate outstanding improvements in care quality and efficiency made by NHS staff.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Acute service redesign award
Winner The Rotherham Foundation Trust: Working together across health and social care for effective discharge management Sponsored by The Rotherham FT worked with its local council to tackle high delayed discharge rates and ensure home was the default option for suitable patients leaving hospital. Previously, the trust ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Workforce efficiency award
Winner University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire Trust: Changing our workforce to improve service delivery in child screening for orthoptics in Warwickshire The orthoptic department at University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire Trust has redesigned its school vision screening service to see more children, reducing the time spent on administration ...
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NewsMajor trust opens talks with Babylon, claiming GPs unable to stem demand
One of the country’s biggest hospital trusts has entered talks with digital health company Babylon Healthcare after concluding local GPs were unable to support its “painful” transformation efforts, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsBabylon GP at Hand evaluation delivers mixed verdict
The long-awaited evaluation of digital primary care provider GP at Hand has uncovered a high level of the patient churn, raised questions about the model’s sustainability, but also revealed contented users and doctors, as well as a positive impact on A&E attendance.
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