Shortlist 2023

Click on the tabs below to reveal the shortlisted NHS teams and projects per category.

Best Use of Integrated Care and Partnership Working in Patient Safety Award


Finalists:

  • Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust, Avon and Somerset Police, BrisDoc Healthcare Services, South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust - Integrated Access Hub 
  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals FT - Operation Provide - Reaching Out to Victims of Domestic Abuse
  • Dartford Gravesham & Swanley Health & Care Partnership, including: Dartford & Gravesham Trust, HCRG Care Group, Ellenor Hospice, DGS Health GP Federation, The DGS HCP Team (part of NHS Kent and Medway ICB) - Safer Winter Together
  • East London FT Community Health Services, Tower Hamlets Adult Social Care, East London FT Neighbourhood Mental Health Team, Tower Hamlets Homecare - Tower Hamlets Integrated Safety Huddle
  • Great Western Hospitals FT - Swindon Home First
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals FT - Reproductive Trauma Service
  • North of England Commissioning Support - Medication Only Domiciliary Support, Optimisation Pathway
  • North West Surrey Health and Care Alliance - A whole-system approach to timely, patient-centred, co-ordinated care, which maximises independence for people living with frailty
  • The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre FT - Haematology Oncology Rapid Diagnostic Service
Community care Initiative of the Year  


Finalists:

  • Cheshire and Wirral Partnership FT - A Needs Led Community Rehabilitation Service - Working as part of a Whole System
  • Crisis Rescue Foundation - Vaxi Taxi - Health and Wellbeing Pop Ups
  • Derbyshire Community Health Services FT - Insulin Delegation' - The Role of a Diabetes Nurse Educator in reducing community nursing visits and improving safety and quality of life for people living in residential care
  • Essex Partnership University FT - South East Essex Community Wound Care - Minuteful for Wound rollout
  • Humber Teaching FT - Complex Emotional Needs Service
  • Lancashire Teaching Hospitals FT - Lancashire Community Healthcare Hub - Finney House
  • Northern Health and Social Care Trust - Dysphagia Telehealth Clinic
  • Sheffield Health and Social Care FT - Holistic care in the community: Empowering mental health staff to provide better care for physical health for people with mental health illness in the community
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT - Digital Health Streaming Service “Community at the Door”
Deteriorating Patients and Rapid Response Initiative of the Year


Finalists:

  • Black Country ICB - Frailty Recognition, End of life and Early Deterioration (FREED)
  • Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust - Inpatient Pain Team - Mobile Block Service
  • Cardiff and Vale UHB - Redesigning and implementing Critical Care Outreach services to make it inclusive for all acutely unwell adult ward patients.
  • Frimley Health FT - Patient safety benefits of Labkit point of care CRP testing in the Hospital@Home frailty service
  • Gloucestershire Health and Care FT - Integrated community team therapists identifying the deteriorating patient in the home setting
  • Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children FT - Improving Response to Acute Deterioration in Patients in a Paediatric Setting
  • Guy's & St Thomas' FT - E-CPR
  • Medway FT - Reducing Avoidable Cardiac Arrest Calls in Acute and Emergency Care, A “Patient First” Frontline Led Collaborative Journey
  • The Dudley Group FT - Deteriorating Patient Pathway
Developing a Positive Safety Culture Award
Award Partner



Finalists:

  • Barts Heart Centre - Complications Review Pathway: Creating a Culture of Improvement
  • Derbyshire Community Health Services FT - Quality and Safe Care Champions-embedding a safety culture in the community setting.
  • Dorset HealthCare University FT - The Dorset Approach to ligature management
  • Hywel Dda UHB - Multidisciplinary Maternity and Neonatal Risk and Governance Team - Changing Workplace Culture around Adverse Events in Maternity and Neonatal Care
  • Lancashire Teaching Hospitals FT - Always Safety First
  • Northamptonshire Healthcare FT - Creating a culture where patient safety is everyone's business
  • Northern Care Alliance - Critical Care Service post-pandemic recovery: embedding a safety and quality culture
  • Sheffield Health and Social Care - Let’s talk about sex, Improving Sexual Safety Culture within specialist inpatient rehabilitation units in a mental health Trust
  • Whittington Health Trust - Ockenden Cafe Initiative
Early-Stage Patient Safety Innovation of the Year


Finalists:

  • Central and North West London FT - Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Programme
  • Isle of Wight Trust - Falls Shared Governance Council
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria FT - Tipping the Balance: implementing truly person centred and collaborative care in Mental Health services
  • Milton Keynes University Hospital FT - Controlling the Built Environment with Digital Twins
  • NHS Wales Executive - A Learning Healthcare System Approach to Quality and Safety
  • Nottingham University Hospitals Trust - Implementing a Maternal Critical Care Competency Programme for critical care nurses
  • Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care FT, Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, Direct Care & Creative Support - Community Managing Deterioration Programme
  • The Public Health Agency Northern Ireland in collaboration with the 5 Health and Social Care Trusts in Northern Ireland - Mealtimes Matter
  • Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals FT - Active Hospitals
Harnessing a Human Factors Approach to Improve Patient Safety Award 


Finalists:

  • Barts Health Trust - Putting Human factors to Work on Safer Tracheostomy Care.
  • North London Hospice - How the quality team took human factors into account
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust - Improvements to access for CTC and the impact on patient pathway
  • Liverpool University Hospitals FT - Ambitious New Hospital Transfer Simulation Testing Project
  • Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals FT - OT Provision within Critical Care
  • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh FT - Introducing a Human Factors concept into incident investigations
Improving Care for Children and Young People Initiative of the Year


Finalists:

  • Alder Hey Children's FT - Little Hearts At Home
  • Barnsley Hospital - AMP model - Children's services redevelopment model
  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals FT - ED Navigator Service
  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals FT and FCMS - Development of a Paediatric Virtual Ward across the Fylde Coast
  • Community Paediatrics Milton Keynes, Central and North West London FT - Getting the mix right - redesigning our pathways to support families through the diagnostic pathway for autism spectrum disorder.
  • Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children FT - Improving patient safety and feeding outcomes through standardisation of feeding on paediatric cardiac ICU
  • Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children FT - Improving Response to Acute Deterioration in Patients in a Paediatric Setting
  • Rotherham Doncaster & South Humber FT - eClinics
  • Suffolk and North East Essex ICS - CYP Peripatetic Crisis Offer
Improving Care for Older People Initiative of the Year


Finalists:

  • Bedford Hospitals FT - Captain Sir Tom Moore Walkway
  • East Lancashire Hospitals Trust - Intensive Home support Service and Emergency department collaboration
  • Mid and South Essex ICB - eFraCCS and FrEDA - delivering PHM for our older population with frailty
  • Midlands Partnership University NHS FT - Dementia in Prisons
  • NHS Elect - The Acute Frailty Network - Supporting older people living with frailty to get home sooner and healthier
  • Oxford University Hospitals FT - Oxford RIPEL: Rapid Intervention for Palliative and End of Life Care
  • Oxleas FT - Greenwich Frailty Team Pilot
  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham - Health Care of Older People Therapy Services - Mission to #ReconditionTheNation
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT - The Acute Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) Unit
Improving Health Outcomes for Minority Ethnic Communities


Finalists:

  • Birmingham Community Healthcare FT, Black Country Healthcare FT, Aston University Birmingham, Clinical Research Network - Community Connexions
  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - All views matter
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria FT, Burnley East and West PCNs, Pendle West PCN, Lytham St Annes PCN, Blackburn East and North PCNs and INT - Associate Psychological Practitioners - minoritised mental health working party group
  • London North West University Healthcare Trust - Introducing Bilingual Pharmacy labels at LNWUH NHS Trust
  • London Pathways Partnership (Oxleas FT) and HMP Swaleside - Increasing BAME representation in a Psychologically Informed Planned Environment (PIPE)
  • NHS England - London region and Multicultural Marketing Consultancy - London Bowel Cancer Screening Social Marketing Campaign
  • Nottingham University Hospitals Trust - The contribution of pulse oximeters to health inequality among patients from minority ethnic communities
  • Stockport FT - Improving Health Outcomes for minority ethnic communities in Stockport
Improving Medicines Safety Award


Finalists:

  • King's College Hospital FT - Implementation of a Trust-wide seven day clinical pharmacy service
  • Lancashire Teaching Hospitals FT - Reducing Medication Omissions
  • Midlands and Lancashire CSU - Improving the safety of patients prescribed clozapine
  • Midlands and Lancashire CSU and Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB - Inhaler prescribing errors - do they matter?
  • NHS England, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, British Generics Manufacturers Association, PharmaCare Group and HealthBeacon - Pathfinder Risk Management Platform – A National Lenalidomide Pregnancy Prevention Programme
  • Southern Health and Social Care Trust - Medicines Management Safety for Domiciliary Care Workers Supporting Adults with Dysphagia
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT - Remote Prescribing for Digital Health Services
  • The Haringey GP Federation - Improving patient safety and prescribing quality of direct oral anticoagulant’s (DOAC’s) in primary care.
  • The Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust - Patient-centred community anticoagulation service
Learning Disabilities Initiative of the Year


Finalists:

  • Humber Teaching FT - Follow My Lead
  • Humber Teaching FT - Specialist Phlebotomy Clinic for Adults with a Learning Disability
  • Midlands and Lancashire CSU, Cornwall Partnership FT, CIDER; Epilepsy Action; SUDEP Action; NHSE Midlands Region - Creating capable communities - keeping people with learning disabilities and epilepsy safe and living well
  • Midlands and Lancashire CSU, Specialist Pharmacy Service, NHS England - Learning Disabilities and/or Autism: Developing a Community of Practice
  • Oxleas FT, Royal Borough of Greenwich & Better - Fun and Fitness: Using Sports and Exercise Groups to Improve Health, Quality of Life and Strengthen Communities for Adults with Learning Disabilities
  • Somerset FT and Cream Care Group - Improving care, safety and experience for residents with learning disabilities using a social care training model.
  • Suffolk and North East Essex ICB and ACE Anglia - My Health Focus Group
  • Sutton Health and Care, Epsom and St Helier Trust and South West London ICB - Learning Disability Health Facilitation Project
  • Wirral University Teaching Hospital FT - Supporting Treatment in Additional-needs Requirements (STAR) Project
Maternity and Midwifery Initiative of the Year


Finalists:

  • Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust - The novel use of ultrasound-guided prophylactic abdominal aortic balloon occlusion for caesarean section in placenta accreta spectrum to improve safety and allow patient fertility preservation
  • Barts Health Trust - Safer Procedures in Maternity Services - Reduction of Never Events
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust - Introduction of a preterm prevention midwifery service
  • NHS England - Midlands Perinatal Team - Saving Babies Lives' Care Bundle Implementation Tool
  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals FT - Enhancing multidisciplinary team communication for emergency obstetric surgery by implementation of a new “PreBrief” process on Labour ward
  • University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust - Maternity Safety Network
  • Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh FT - Daisy Team - Complex Midwifery Care
Mental Health Safety Improvement Award


Finalists:

  • Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear FT and Oxehealth - Improving safety and care quality with vision-based patient monitoring technology
  • Heywood Middleton and Rochdale ICS and Rochdale Council - Implementing a whole system approach to reducing crisis escalation in children's mental health
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria FT - Advocacy for Autistic People in Mental Health Inpatient Settings
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals FT - Reproductive Trauma Service
  • Mersey Care FT - Safer Use of Clozapine Though Routine Assay Monitoring
  • Northampton General Hospital - Rehabilitation Coach and Wellbeing Coach programme for MDT staff
  • Sheffield Health and Social Care FT - Let’s Talk about Restrictive Practice – improving safety through conversation, collaborative understanding and action
  • Sheffield Health and Social Care FT - The impact of HUSH huddles on the rate of falls in an older adult inpatient mental health units
  • South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust - Using digital advice and guidance to improve physical healthcare for people with mental illness
Patient Involvement in Safety Award


Finalists:

  • Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust - Enfield CAMHS Coproduction Project with Meera Kapadia
  • London North West University Healthcare Trust - A plan for pharmacy: Embedding person-centred care in patient consultations
  • NHS Professionals - Living and working with Parkinsons group in collaboration with the Excellence Network - Delivering Time Critical Medication on time, every time. A patient led campaign.
  • Northamptonshire Healthcare FT - Co-production with the Progression and Management of Violence and Aggression (PMVA) team
  • Northamptonshire Healthcare FT - Suicide Prevention at NHFT
  • Stockport FT - Co-Designing a Patient-centred, System-wide Pain Management Journey
Patient Safety Education and Training Award


Finalists:

  • Guy's & St Thomas' FT - Mechanical Life Support
  • Hampshire Hospitals FT - Improving Human Factors for Patient Safety (iHuPs)
  • Hertfordshire Partnership University FT - Simulation Hub
  • Humber Teaching FT - Follow My Lead
  • Hywel Dda UHB - Implementing an Interactive Multidisciplinary Education Programme for Physiological Interpretation of Fetal Monitoring
  • Liverpool Heart and Chest FT - International Nurse Leadership Development Programme
  • Somerset FT and Cream Care Group - Improving patient safety and experience using a social care training model
  • Spectrum Community Health CIC - Improving the Clinical Management of Food Refusal in Prisons
  • University Hospitals Birmingham FT - Critical Care Outreach Development Programme
Patient Safety in Elective Recovery Award

Finalists:

  • Lancashire Teaching Hospitals FT - Tell People Quickly That They Don't Have Cancer!
  • Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals FT - Ambulatory Radiofrequency Ablation for the treatment of Varicose Veins Clinic
  • North of England Commissioning Support - RAIDR - Waiting Well Digital Solution
  • Oxford University Hospitals FT - Preoperative Assessment Department - Oxford High Risk Anaesthetics Meeting
  • South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre - Post Discharge Review Service: A high quality, safe and streamlined pathway for patients recovering from elective orthopaedic surgery
  • St George’s University Hospitals FT - Safe & Sustainable Surgical Hand Hub
  • St George's University Hospitals FT - ASA 1 Streaming Project in The Preoperative Assessment Service
  • Stockport FT - Enabling improvements in day case surgery, to support the recovery of elective care through developing a Digital Day Case Dashboard
  • West Yorkshire ICB, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust and Live Well Wakefield - Wakefield Waiting well project
Patient Safety Pilot Project of the Year
Award Partner



Finalists:

  • Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust - BHRUT AF Stroke Prevention Hub
  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals FT - Preventing Hospital Acquired Pneumonia: Introducing the COUGH care bundle
  • Devon Partnership Trust - The Salus Ward Simulation Piot - Using Simulation to safety test a newly built mental health ward.
  • Isle of Wight Council and Isle of Wight Trust Ambulance Service - Isle of Wight Wightcare/Ambulance Falls Response Pilot
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria FT - Advocacy for Autistic People in Mental Health Inpatient Settings
  • Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB - Patient Safety Risk Approach
  • Mid and South Essex FT - Pilot of a novel combined anaesthetic and geriatrician pre-assessment clinic for older people with colorectal cancer
  • South London and Maudsley FT - Reducing Restraint and Restrictive Practice (R3P) Peer Support Service
  • University College London Hospitals FT - GP referral Chest X-rays: Radiographer Led Fast Track to Further imaging Pathway
Patient Safety Team of the Year
Award Partner



Finalists:

  • Beacon GP Care - A framework to improve clinical safety and ensure patient safety in General Practice
  • East Lancashire Hospitals Trust - Improvements in outcomes for patients undergoing ablative oncological head and neck surgery, and reconstruction
  • Lancashire & South Cumbria FT - Tipping the Balance: Implementing truly person centred and collaborative care in mental health services
  • Midlands Partnership University FT - Harm Engagement and Reduction Team (HEART) - Inclusion Recovery Hampshire
  • NHS England, Community Pharmacy England, Department of Health and Social Care - Medicines Safety - Pharmacy Quality Scheme
  • Sheffield Health and Social Care FT - The RESPECT team are here to talk about Restrictive Practice – improving safety through conversation, collaborative understanding and action
  • Somerset FT - Improving safety and experience for patients in the community who use a suction unit
  • Sussex Partnership FT - Patient Safety and Clinical Governance Team
  • University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust - Care Excellence Framework - Refresh
Primary Care Initiative of the Year


Finalists:

  • Aneurin Bevan University Health Board - Innovation Diagnostic Hubs across Primary and Community Care
  • Bicester PCN - Bicester PCN Virtual Ward Round
  • East London FT - Reducing Health Inequalities in Primary Care
  • Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB Training Hub - PCN Training Teams
  • Midlands Partnership University FT - Inclusion Thurrock: Psychological Therapy Service
  • NHS England - Acute Respiratory Infection Hubs
  • North East London ICB - Barking & Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge - Quality Assured Diagnostics in Primary Care
  • Sunderland Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and Sunderland GP Alliance -  The Pharmacy Teams Primary Care Medicines Discharge Hub
Quality Improvement Initiative of the Year


Finalists:

  • Central and North West London FT - Community Paediatrics Milton Keynes - Getting the mix right - redesigning our pathways to support families through the diagnostic pathway for autism spectrum disorder.
  • Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children FT - Improving patient safety and feeding outcomes through standardisation of feeding on paediatric cardiac ICU
  • Guy's & St Thomas' FT - Mechanical Life Support
  • Lancashire Teaching Hospitals FT - Microsystem Coaching to Improve Patient Safety
  • Medway FT - Reducing Avoidable Cardiac Arrest Calls, A “Patient First” Frontline Led Collaborative Journey
  • South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre and Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust - Spine Pain Referral Multidisciplinary Team Meeting
  • Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust -   Deteriorating Patient Improvement Programme
  • University Hospital Southampton FT - Supporting women/birthing people and their families who experience a caesarean birth under general anaesthetic
  • Yorkshire and Humber Improvement Academy and Sue Ryder - Implementation of Safety Huddles across all inpatient Sue Ryder Units: reducing harm and improving safety culture
Safety Improvement through Technology Award


Finalists:

  • Cardiff and Vale UHB - School Nursing Immunisation Team - From Paper to Digital
  • Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear FT and Oxehealth - Improving safety and care quality with vision-based patient monitoring technology
  • Homerton Healthcare FT with eConsult Health - Impact of Digital triage on the Emergency Department
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust - #Alerts reporting system
  • Cheshire and Merseyside Local Maternity and Neonatal System - Women's Health and Maternity Programme: Local Maternity and Neonatal System. Improving Maternity Services through data insights and technology
  • NHS Cheshire and Merseyside - Remote monitoring enabled heart failure virtual ward
  • NHS England, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, British Generics Manufacturers Association, PharmaCare Group and HealthBeacon - Pathfinder Risk Management Platform – A National Lenalidomide Pregnancy Prevention Programme
  • Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust - Electronic Safeguarding Adults Referrals
  • The Dudley Group FT - Digital Deteriorating Patient Pathway
Staff Wellbeing Initiative of the Year


Finalists:

  • Bradford Teaching Hospitals FT - Ramadan Allies
  • East Lancashire Trust - Workforce Wellbeing
  • Kent and Medway and Social Care Partnership Trust - Talking Wellness: Kent and Medway's Staff Mental Health Wellbeing Service
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria FT - Resilience Hub - Care Home Outreach Team
  • London Ambulance Service Trust - Wellbeing Hub
  • Northamptonshire Healthcare FT - Embracing neurodiversity in supporting employee wellbeing
  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham - Health Care of Older People Therapy Services - Mission to #ReconditionTheNation
  • Solent Trust - The Ripple Model
  • Swansea Bay UHB - Sharing HOPE - The Art of Healing Together
Urgent and Emergency Care Safety Initiative of the Year


Finalists:

  • Central and North West London FT - Appsolute Magic - Innovation in the community
  • Guy's & St Thomas' FT - E-CPR
  • Hampshire Hospital FT, South Central Ambulance Service, Southern Health FT - ‘Call Before Convey’ – Getting The Right Patient, The Right Clinician, In The Right Place, At The Right time
  • Homerton Healthcare FT - Emergency Department digital check-in and triage
  • Medway FT - Collaborative working and a joint vision save lives
  • North Bristol Trust - Risk 1310 - Reducing Ambulance Handover Delays
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT - The Acute Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) Unit
  • University Hospitals of Derby and Burton FT - How our cancer assessment unit freed up a whole ward
  • West of England AHSN - "SHarED" - Supporting High impAct useRs in Emergency Departments
Virtual or Remote Care Initiative of the Year


Finalists:

  • Alder Hey Children's FT - Little Hearts At Home
  • Chelsea and Westminster Hospital FT - An Adaptable, Novel Technology Blueprint for Managing a Neglected Infection
  • Manchester University FT, Northern Care Alliance and Medtronic - Using Remotely Monitored Health Data from Pacemakers to Reduce Hospital Admissions for Patients with Heart Failure.
  • Manchester University FT: Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester Local Care Organisation and Trafford Local Care Organisation - Manchester and Trafford Paediatric Virtual Wards
  • Norfolk & Waveney ICB and Norfolk Care Homes - Care Home Out of Hours Remote Monitoring & 111 Ward Round Pilot
  • Northern Health and Social Care Trust - Telehealth Dysphagia Clinic
  • Princess Alice Hospice - A hospice's hybrid offer for wellbeing services
  • Royal Papworth Hospital FT - Cardiac Rhythm Management
  • The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre FT - The collaborative design and evaluation of a virtual tour of a Radiotherapy department to provide patients with key information prior to visiting the hospital