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Following a fantastic number of entries, hearing about so many excellent projects across health and care our judges have selected the Leading Healthcare Awards Shortlist.
The Leading Healthcare Awards are purely digital, and the shortlisted entries and winners will be promoted live through our digital awards evening on 6th March on our website, Linkedin, Instagram and Twitter.
The Awards are sponsored by Draper & Dash Healthcare (D&D) a provider of operational patient flow, predictive analytics and insights software, with over 70+ healthcare customers globally. The platforms are an intrinsic element to operations for healthcare providers on a daily basis and are fundamental patient flow and cost saving efficiency tools.
Shortlist:
Innovation of the Year
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust: The Digital Ward project has the overall objective of transforming the way healthcare professionals capture and access clinical information. Digital Ward is a project devised as a test bed to introduce mobile technology and digital working into the inpatient environment.
NHS Norfolk Children and Young People’s Health Services: JustOneNorfolk.nhs.uk is a new, innovative NHS digital platform which aims to help children, young people and their families in Norfolk to have a better understanding of their health, wellbeing and care. The website launched in November 2018 and has already had over 46,000 website views.
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust: Visiting Professor Sauid Ishaq introduced an innovative, flexible endoscopic treatment of Zenker’s diverticulum to the UK in 2013. Zenker’s diverticulum (ZD) is a rare condition which tends to affect elderly patients with significant co-morbidity, where an outpouching is formed in the lower part of the throat. ZD significantly affects people’s quality of life.
Changing Health Limited: Changing Health provides digital lifestyle change programmes for people with Type 2 diabetes, clinically proven to transform health outcomes. Our programmes empower people to develop new, healthier habits – and stick to them. We’ve combined health coaching rooted in behavioural psychology with digital education, delivering outcomes that stand up to rigorous evaluation.
SilverCloud Health: SilverCloud is the leading digital health platform for mental health and reached the incredible milestone in 2018 of treating over 250,000 people through online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. SilverCloud have provided over 702,317 hours of digital therapy and is now used by 105 NHS organisations.
Improving Outcomes
NHS North of England Commissioning Support: Built in partnership with NHS England North, local authorities and care homes, the web-based Capacity Tracker instantly connects users with care homes across England that have vacancies. This has been shown to help optimise patient flow, reduce avoidable delayed transfers of care and therefore length of stay in inpatient settings.
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust: Reach Out is an innovative partnership of NHS Trusts and a private provider who are concluding a 2 year pilot within Adult secure care, implementing a new care model which will reduce the amount of patients who are placed outside of the West Midlands which impacts on their recovery journey.
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust: Cambridge Community Service NHS Trust’s GP liaison service – believed to be the only nurses-led service of its kind in the country – streamlines the way GPs refer patients for same day hospital assessment in Luton. The team provides a fast, effective patient pathway through the hospital and back into the community.
Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust: Improving outcomes for patients with leg ulceration. Programme designed and aimed at all Band 6 District Nursing Sisters and Community Nursing Sisters to improve leadership skills with a focus on quality conversations (health coaching), improved education on assessment and treatment options, Leadership and Tissue Viability Mentorship.
Edyn.Care: Edyn.Care combines the human touch with tech-enabled solutions for tailored, professional and proactive care. Seniors are empowered to stay in their own homes, knowing that 24-hour support is on hand. The company is CQC registered and its algorithm finds the best carer based on customer needs and interests.
Patient Safety
Deontics: Revolutionary AI Patient Decision Aid reduces unnecessary risk to patients whilst potentially saving £77M per year for colorectal cancer patients. Deontics in conjunction with the Royal Free Hospital developed a decision aid for patients with stage II colorectal cancer considering whether or not to have adjuvant chemotherapy. The AI tool enables individualised, evidence based clinical decisions to be jointly made. 92% rejected unnecessary chemotherapy saving potentially £77M p.a. nationally.
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Trust: The Physical Observation “App” is the second phase of the Digital Ward project. The “app” enables clinicians to record physical observations at the point of care. The “App” also enables a service user’s plan and observation history to be detailed in a place which is accessible to all.
Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: In order to strengthen a “board-to-ward“ culture of patient safety, a Trust Wide Executive-led Safety Huddle was introduced in May 2018; the purpose is to ensure that any safety concerns are addressed as soon as possible and lessons learnt are shared across the organisation. Senior leaders from across the organisation must be in attendance for this to be effective and it is essential that staff who are able to influence practice and processes within the Trust are core members, in addition to representation from both clinical and non-clinical colleagues.
Yorkshire & Humber Academic Health Science Network: Yorkshire Safety Huddles – delivered by the Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC) – enable multi-disciplinary teams to work together to reduce the risk of harm to hospitalised patients. More than 6,600 falls have potentially been avoided – equating to around £17 million saved in healthcare costs based on cost estimates from NHS Improvement.
Estates and Facilities Management
Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust (One Public Estate Partnership): The ambition is for a single place-based health and public sector estate strategy across Worcestershire delivering sustainable revenue savings, economic growth and improving local services.
QE Facilities Ltd: QEF was established to create a new model, for the delivery of non-clinical services to the NHS. The creation of our subsidiary has been a catalyst for change, delivering significant improvements and efficiencies in non-clinical services and is now established as a successful, innovative company with a clear culture directed at improving E&F services to the NHS.
Staff and Patient Experience
NHS Norfolk Children and Young People’s Health Services: JustOneNorfolk.nhs.uk is a new, innovative NHS digital platform which aims to help children, young people and their families in Norfolk to have a better understanding of their health, wellbeing and care. The website launched in November 2018 and has already had over 46,000 website views.
Evergreen Life: Evergreen Life is a personal health record app that stores your health information in one place. Connected to all three GP systems in England, it also enables people to book appointments, order repeat prescriptions and view their medical record online and all from the palm of your hand.
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust: Cambridge Community Service NHS Trust’s GP liaison service – believed to be the only nurses-led service of its kind in the country – streamlines the way GPs refer patients for same day hospital assessment in Luton. The team provides a fast, effective patient pathway through the hospital and back into the community.
Healthcare Provider of the Year
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust: How medical leadership delivered nationally leading transformation and improvement, alongside unparalleled financial performance and value.
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHSFT: MAPS has developed and implemented a workforce and development model which has improved patient and staff experience and care quality, safety and patient outcomes. As a result of this work there have been significant improvements in many quality indicators at a time when staffing numbers have continued to fall as demand has continued to rise.
Gogodoc: Gogodoc is an app that provides a quality GP booking service that brings the doctor straight to you. Our aim is to make appointments private, easy and hassle free.
SilverCloud Health: SilverCloud is the leading digital health platform for mental health and reached the incredible milestone in 2018 of treating over 250,000 people through online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. SilverCloud have provided over 702,317 hours of digital therapy and is now used by 105 NHS organisations.
Efficiency Savings of the Year
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust: The quantitative value of hybrid mail can be seen from the Trusts cost savings and resource release. A reduction in printing costs, franking and ordering of stationary, the savings are in excess of £4000 per month. Furthermore reducing the time clinicians and associated staff spend producing and mailing letters.
Taunton & Somerset NHS Foundation Trust with Ingenica Solutions: Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust implemented Ingenica Solutions’ 360 inventory management solution to manage stock, and achieve patient level costing. A benchmark for success, with outstanding results, the project has improved productivity, operational efficiency, achieved cost savings, increased stock control and visibility, enabled product standardisation and rationalisation and reduced wastage.
Babble ltd: Babblevoice, the phone system for primary care, better supports practice patients and staff. Babblevoice improves practice efficiency by: Automate appointment booking without speaking to reception, when patients call automatically retrieve and display patient records and capture patient’s new phone numbers and store for future use.
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust: ART looks at innovative ways to facilitate current existing Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT) by introducing avatar technology. The aim is to encourage service users to engage in their therapeutic work by implementing a virtual world to encourage narrative from users. The technology can also be applied to educational workshops and reflective practices.
Case Study of the Year
NHS North of England Commissioning Support Unit: The Value Based Commissioning programme identified the opportunity to reduce clinical risk for patients through implementing a region-wide approach to managing procedures of limited clinical value. Since August 2017, the web-based system VBC Checker has assisted in a reduction of 15,000 procedures, saving £24m across the Cumbria and North East health economy.
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust: The MERIT programme has developed an Electronic Health Record Viewer which provides access to patients’ mental health histories to clinicians in four NHS trusts in the West Midlands, and a Bed Finder to make more efficient use of inpatient beds and reduce the incidence of long-distance out-of-area placements.
Changing Health Limited: Changing Health provides digital lifestyle change programmes for people with Type 2 diabetes, clinically proven to transform health outcomes. Our programmes empower people to develop new, healthier habits – and stick to them. We’ve combined health coaching rooted in behavioural psychology with digital education, delivering outcomes that stand up to rigorous evaluation.
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