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Leading Healthcare Awards 2021
The Leading Healthcare Awards 2021 celebrate and recognise great teams, partnerships, innovations and programmes across health and care.
The awards also provide a platform to share ideas, learn from others and hear about various innovative programmes to shape the future of health and care services.
Digital awards evening: 1st April 2021, live from 7:00PM
Supported by CCube Solutions
Leading Healthcare Awards 2021 Finalists...
Excellence in Innovation
Clinical Prevention and Rehabilitation (CP+R) Ltd
Rehabilitating Cardiac Rehabilitation
CP+R have dedicated over 14 years of experience to changing the way cardiac rehabilitation is deployed. Utilising a team to one approach and their four pillar model, CP+R has continued to evolve exercise rehabilitation and provide outcomes for thousands of patients. CP+R simply help people live longer better.
Newton Medical Centre
Impact of COVID-19 on Carers: Caring for Carers – Can we be of help?
It aims to improve the lives of carers by helping health and social care practitioners identify people who are caring for someone and give them the right information and support. It covers carers’ assessments, practical, emotional and social support and training, and support for carers providing end of life care.
Yorkshire Health Partners Ltd
Care Home online GP consultation
Unsustainable workload pressures are a key concern in general practice, to overcome some of these challenges, Yorkshire Health Partners led an online GP consultation pilot scheme using Engage Consult to successfully enhance efficiencies and improve access and turnaround, to facilitate better ways of working for GP surgeries and care homes.
Tekihealth Solutions Ltd
A remote diagnostic consultation solution in care homes provides better access to care for residents and improves GP efficiency in spite of Covid 19
Tekihealth Solutions’ “Tekihub” placed in several care homes across the UK enables clinicians to carry out remote physical examinations of the heart, lung, skin, ears, nose and throat of residents resulting in reduced unplanned hospital admissions, GP home visits and improved access to care in spite of Covid-19.
Vita Health Group
Working in partnership to develop an innovative digital chatbot to increase access to primary care mental health services, and elevate the patient experience
Vita Health Group is a growing/dynamic physical and mental healthcare company. We have worked in partnership with Limbic, an organisation dedicated to using cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) to create an innovative chatbot to enhance access to our NHS Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) primary care mental health services.
Best Remote Monitoring Solution
Oxehealth
How contact-free remote monitoring technology can help in Mental Health settings during the COVID pandemic
The Covid pandemic has impacted all aspects of healthcare, however in-patient mental health settings face a unique challenge. The extra layer of complexity created by the issues of infection control and contact exposure, means ensuring the safety and wellbeing of patients in mental health facilities has become even more difficult using conventional approaches.
ADI
TiM on MyPathway – MND remote monitoring.
MyPathway is a digital communications channel connecting patients to clinicians, empowering and engaging patients in their healthcare journey. MyPathway enables MND centres to manage their patients digitally. Clinicians can review health questionnaire response data, test results and patient progress through a portal, facilitating decision making for patient care.
Brain in Hand
A digital self-management system to support people who need help remembering things, making decisions, planning, or managing anxiety.
The digital approach aims to transform the model of care for autistic people through user-led self-management. Results from a 2019 evaluation report showed 9 out of 10 users reported an increase in wellbeing within 7 months and the technology proved cost efficiencies for service providers, with an average direct cost saving of £2,800 per user.
Excellence in Supporting Patients
Newton Medical Centre
Project CARe (COVID-impact Assessment & REsponse project)
NICE published a new guidance on the 18th December 2020. COVID-19 rapid guideline: managing the long-term effects of COVID-19 [NG188]. This guideline covers identifying, assessing and managing the long-term effects of COVID-19, often described as ‘long COVID’. It makes recommendations about care in all healthcare settings for adults, children and young people who have new or ongoing symptoms 4 weeks or more after the start of acute COVID-19. It also includes advice on organising services for long COVID.
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Nutrition and Dietetics Weight Management Group Consultations.
COVID-19 presented our Nutrition and Dietetics team with a problem. They could no longer host their face-to-face weight management group, a key part of patients’ journey. The team looked for a digital solution and quickly embraced the virtual sessions, commenting that they have restored joy to their practice.
Vcreate
Secure Video Messaging technology originally developed to help minimise separation anxiety in parents of children in Neonatal and Paediatric Units
vCreate (www.vcreate.tv) is an NHS trusted Secure Video Messaging technology originally developed to help minimise separation anxiety in parents of children in Neonatal and Paediatric Units. It is also used by other units, such as adult ICUs, to keep families connected when they can’t be with their loved ones.
HN (Health Navigator Ltd)
Launching a Remote High-Risk Patient service in East Kent and South West Staffordshire to support 1,132 shielded patients.
In April 2020, the DoH issued guidelines to isolate vulnerable patients to shield them from COVID-19. East-Kent and South-West Staffordshire CCGs and HN rapidly developed a remote shielding service supporting 1,132 patients in the period from May to September 2020. An example of first class NHS-SME collaboration.
Patient Safety
Intouch with Health
Supporting social distancing measures and infection prevention at Poole Hospital with mobile patient check-in
Poole Hospital has transformed the way patients check-in for appointments since launching a new mobile check-in app to allow visiting outpatients to check-in using an app on their smartphone when they arrive. This initiative is part of a range of measures to support infection control practices aimed at reducing the spread of COVID-19.
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust and Oxehealth
A digital solution for safer mental health care
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust deployed Oxevision, a contact-free, vision-based patient and management platform, in a clinical study to improve safety, quality, and efficiency of care. The results showed a reduction in patient safety incidents, improved patient and staff experience, and an increase in efficiency across all care settings deployed.
Patient Safety Learning
The hub – a unique patient safety learning and engagement platform
The hub is an online space to share learning and engage. Designed with patient safety professionals, clinicians and patients, it enables shared learning about patient safety problems, experiences and solutions. the hub offers a powerful combination of tools, stories, ideas and case studies to those wanting safer care for patients.
Partnership of the Year
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust & Inform Health
Inform Health supports NUH NHS Trust to deliver fully-electronic management of COVID-19 staff testing – saving hundreds of thousands of staff hours, supporting national SIREN study research and mitigating ward outbreaks
NHS Business Services Authority & Difrent
Successfully improving digital services across the NHS for the people they’re designed to serve
From re-designing and re-building the new NHS Jobs recruitment platform for job applicants and hiring mangers, handling millions of job applications per year, to improving Overseas Healthcare services for users and staff, following the UK’s departure from the EU, we’ve achieved some truly positive outcomes over the past 3 years.
Vita Health Group and Limbic
Working in partnership to develop an innovative digital chatbot to increase access to primary care mental health services, and elevate the patient experience
Vita Health Group is a growing/dynamic physical and mental healthcare company. We have worked in partnership with Limbic, an organisation dedicated to using cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) to create an innovative chatbot to enhance access to our NHS Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) primary care mental health services.
HAS Technology
PAMMS / LondonADASS
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, London ADASS and HAS Technology worked together to repurpose its PAMMS software to enable crucial digital collection and collation of health and social care data to help manage risks on a daily basis across all care settings in its 32 boroughs.
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
The Portsmouth Technologies Trials Unit (PTTU): transforming the treatment and care of patients through research.
The Portsmouth Technologies Trials Unit (PTTU) is a unique partnership. The unit brings together a rare blend of skills and expertise, working across academia, health care and business to translate technology solutions into clinical research opportunities, accelerating patient access to new medical technologies.
Digital Transformation
Synopsis
Transforming the pre-operative assessment pathway and supporting social distancing measures at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust with digital questionnaires patients complete from home
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has transformed the way it conducts the pre-operative assessment (POA) process since deploying digital POA questionnaires and digitising the entire pre-operative pathway using Synopsis. Patients can now complete their POA questionnaire safely at home and staff enjoy significant efficiency gains throughout the POA pathway.
Diet Care
Diet Care is the leading provider of health and nutritional food and weight management programs, catering to thousands of members, and 100s of outlets daily. It is the only center with its own microbiology lab, accredited by the Arab Center for Nutrition, HACCP and ISO certified, and a superbrand
everyLIFE Technologies Limited
Promoting safer, efficient social care using up-to-date GP information at the point of care, across domiciliary, residential and complex care settings
In an industry first, everyLIFE integrated PASS, its digital care management system, with GP Connect to deliver real-time data sharing between Health & Social Care practitioners. It enables care provider access to the latest GP clinical information, and supports the provision of the best possible care for their clients.
Tekihealth Solutions Ltd
A remote diagnostic consultation solution in care homes provides better access to care for residents and improves GP efficiency in spite of Covid 19.
Tekihealth Solutions’ “Tekihub” placed in several care homes across the UK enables clinicians to carry out remote physical examinations of the heart, lung, skin, ears, nose and throat of residents resulting in reduced unplanned hospital admissions, GP home visits and improved access to care in spite of Covid-19
Oxford VR
Social engagement program
Oxford VR develop evidence-based VR treatments for the common, complex and costly mental health conditions. The company’s mission is to improve access to mental health treatment for millions.
The social engagement program is a ground-breaking mental health intervention that uses virtual reality technology to help individuals overcome anxious social avoidance.
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Healthy Together’s 0-19 Public Health Digital offer
Healthy Together is the name for Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT)’s 0-19 public health nursing service (health visiting and school nursing) delivered across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. A vital and growing element of this service is its digital presence, as parents/carers and young people want easy access to trusted information and advice about all aspects of their health and wellbeing, without making appointments with health care professionals.
Further Information
The Leading Healthcare Awards 2021 are purely digital. The winners will be announced through an engaging digital awards evening held on 1st April 2021. Each Highly Commended and Winning entry will receive a trophy, and there will also be an Overall Winner.
Through the Leading Healthcare website each project (finalist) will be shared and highlighted.
The awards are open to anyone to enter and if you would like to support the judging process please email marketing@htn.co.uk for further details.
