Winners 2020

Click on the tabs below to reveal the winners and finalists per category.

Best Emerging Solution for Patient Safety

 


Winner: Focus Games and NHS Partners - FluBee Game

Highly Commended: South Tyneside and Sunderland FT in collaboration with Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals FT and North East and North Cumbria AHSN - BeatAsthma+: A Health Promotion Initiative to Identify and Manage High Risk Children with Asthma and to provide a structured Education Package for Families in Primary Care

Finalists:

  • Alder Hey Children's FT - Early detection of deterioration in children in hospital to prevent critical care transfer: The DETECT Study
  • Healthier Lancashire and South Cumbria ICS - WelLPRES: Digital Solution for enhanced delivery of coordinated care and self management
  • Northumbria Healthcare FT - Berwick Dementia Aid
  • Royal Free London Hospital FT - Translational Simulation in Robotic Surgery: Development of an Emergency De-Docking Algorithm
  • Southern Health and Social Care Trust - Implantable Loop Recorders: Improving timeliness of treatments
Best HealthTech Solution for Patient Safety

 


Winner: County Durham and Darlington FT - Health Call Digital Care Home

Highly Commended: South Tyneside and Sunderland FT - Development of an Electronic Paediatric Emergency Department Asthma Assessment Tool (PEDAAT) and Care Pathway 

Finalists:

  • Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust - Safer acute inpatient care in Mental Health
  • Focus Games and NHS Partners - FluBee Game
  • Healthier Lancashire and South Cumbria ICS  - WelLPRES: Digital Solution for enhanced delivery of coordinated care and self management
  • North Tees and Hartlepool FT  - CareScan+
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT - Supporting safe patient care through information technology
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT, Safe Steps and Health Innovation Manchester  - Safe Steps: Developing an evidence-based digital risk assessment platform
Best Partnership Solution Improving Patient Safety

 


Winner: Imperial College Health Partners with Maternity Services at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital FT, Northwick Park Hospital, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, St Mary’s Hospital, The Hillingdon Hospitals FT and West Middlesex University Hospital - Prevention of Cerebral Palsy in Preterm Labour (PReCePT)

Highly Commended: Bolton FT, Homeless Welfare, Bolton Council, Homeless Aid UK, St John Ambulance and Greater Manchester Mental Health - Bolton Homeless Outreach Nursing Team Collaborations

Finalists:

  • Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG on behalf of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough STP  - System Wide Out of Stock Working Group (SWOOSWG)
  • Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust - Fewer incidents and better care in inpatient Mental Health hospitals
  • Focus Games and NHS Partners - FluBee Game
  • Leeds Community Healthcare Trust, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, Leeds and York Partnership FT, Leeds City Council and Leeds Health and Partnerships Team - Occupational Therapy First
  • Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent CCGs and Staffordshire County Council - Provider Improvement and Response Team
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT, Safe Steps and Health Innovation Manchester - Safe Steps: Developing an evidence-based digital risk assessment platform
Changing Culture Award

 


Winner: Royal Surrey FT - Development of the Alcohol Care Team and the positive impact on patient care and outcomes

Highly Commended: The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre FT - ‘Culturally Aware’- Learning from deaths in Tertiary Cancer Care

Finalists:

  • Hertfordshire Partnership University FT - Fostering a 'just culture' of learning and safety
  • Northamptonshire Healthcare FT - Quality and Safety at the foundation of all we do: Keeping Everyone Safe Week
  • Oldham Care Organisations part of the Northern Care Alliance Group - The Kindness Collaborative
  • Sandwell and West Birmingham Trust - Positive Pioneers
  • Sherwood Forest Hospitals FT, Nottingham University Business School and East Midlands Patient Safety Collaborative - An evaluation of the impact of the PASCAL safety climate survey on Quality Improvement
  • University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire Trust - Saving babies lives: meeting national targets through a change in safety culture
Clinical Governance & Risk Management in Patient Safety Award

 


Winner: Guy's and St Thomas' FT - Prosthetic pressure ulcer reporting and management

Highly Commended: Solent Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals Trust - Collabrative risk assessment: championing the use of aquatic physiotherapy in the ventilated critical care patient with Guillain-Barre Syndrome

Finalists:

  • Cambridge University Hospital FT - Improving patient safety through risk management
  • Mountain Healthcare - Custody Early Warning Scores; do they predict patient deterioration in police custody?
Deteriorating Patients & Rapid Response Systems Award

 


Winner: West Hampshire CCG and Wessex AHSN - RESTORE2: Recognising and Responding to Deteriorating in Care and Nursing Homes

Highly Commended: Alder Hey Children's FT - Earlier Recognition of Deterioration In Children using e-Obs

Finalists:

  • Cambridge University Hospitals FT - Recognition and escalation of the deteriorating paediatric patient
  • London Ambulance Service Trust with Abbott Point of Care i-STAT Analyser - Improvements in the prevention of patient deterioration through trialling Abbott i-STAT venous blood analyser
  • Royal United Hospitals Bath FT - Improving Patient Outcomes from Sepsis and Acute Kidney Injury
  • Somerset FT - Expanding the safety culture through novel reporting mechanisms
  • Somerset FT - What to do if you can't do a NEWS2
  • Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals FT - THINK Delirium in Intensive Care
End of Life Care Award

 


Winner: London Ambulance Service in collaboration with Macmillan - Building staff confidence and alternative care pathways in end of life care

Highly Commended: Essex County Council with St Lukes, St Francis and Farleigh Hospices - Essex End of Life Hospice Programme for domiciliary care workers

Finalists: 

  • Marie Curie Hospice, Newcastle - Introducing an Electronic Prescribing and Medication Administration System to Improve End of Life Care
  • Mid Essex Hospital Services Trust - Utilizng digital solutions to improve access to pastoral and end of life care
  • Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals FT - Hospital Palliative Care Team Implementation of Personalised End of Life Care
  • Nottinghamshire Healthcare FT, Beaumond House Community Hospice, Nottinghamshire Hospice, Primary Integrated Community Services, Sherwood Forest Hospitals FT and Cruse Bereavement  - End of Life Care Together
Improving Care for Older People Award

 


Winner: Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust - Population Health Management for Frailty

Highly Commended: Northamptonshire CCG - Yellow Bracelet Scheme

Finalists:

  • Northumbria Healthcare FT - Nerve Centre 4AT delirium screening project
  • Sherwood Forest Hospitals FT - MDT Leadership to support reducing Length of Stay in a Care of the Elderly Unit 
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT, Safe Steps and Health Innovation Manchester - Safe Steps: Developing an evidence-based digital risk assessment platform
  • The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn FT in partnership with Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust and West Norfolk CCG - Rapid Assessment and Frailty Team
  • West Midlands AHSN & NIHR ARC West Midlands - SPACE - A Quality Improvement Initiative in Care Homes
  • Western Health and Social Care Trust - Acute Care at Home: A Shift to the Left
Improving Safety in Medicines Management Initiative

 


Winner: Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust, Guy's and St Thomas' FT, Western Sussex Hospitals Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals Trust - Reducing medication-related harm (MRH) in older people discharged from hospital

Highly Commended: Yorkshire & Humber AHSN, Airedale FT, Barnsley Hospitals FT, Bradford Teaching Hospitals FT, Calderdale and Huddersfield FT, Hull University Teaching Hospitals Trust, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, York Teaching Hospitals FT and Leeds, York Partnership FT and Community Pharmacy West Yorkshire - Medicines support to improve patient safety

Finalists:

  • Hertfordshire Partnership University FT - Medicines Optimisation Clinic
  • Marie Curie Hospice, Newcastle - Reducing Medication Errors through the Introduction of an Electronic Prescibing System within a Hospice Setting
  • Neighbourhood Integrated Practice Pharmacists in Salford (NIPPs) - Rationalisation and Safety Review of DOACs in Primary Care
  • Salford Care Organisation, part of the Northern Care Alliance Group - Medicines Related Admissions: Identifying and preventing medicines related harm across care boundaries
Infection Prevention and Control Initiative of the Year

 


Winner: Imperial College Healthcare Trust - Hand Hygiene Improvement Programme

Highly Commended: Northampton General Hospital Trust - Mouthcare really does matter!

Finalists:

  • Focus Games and NHS Partners - FluBee Game
  • Southern Health and Social Care Trust - Carbapenem Reduction Programme
Learning Disabilities Initiative of the Year

 


Winner: South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust in collaboration with South West London Alliance (Kingston, Richmond, Merton, Wandsworth & Sutton CCGs) - Learning Disabilities Medicine Optimisation in Care Homes (LDMOCH) Service

Highly Commended: Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust and Wiltshire CCG - Improving Patient Safety on the Daisy Unit

Finalists:

  • Birmingham Community Healthcare FT - Nutrition Nurse Team: Improving care for adults with a learning disability who require enteral tube placement
  • East Cheshire Trust - Improving patient safety and outcomes through autism accreditation
  • Liverpool Women's FT - Using Virtual Reality as a Reasonable Adjustment
  • Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital FT - Children and Young People's Learning Disabiltiy Specialist Nurse: A Safety and Quality Improvement Initative
  • Western Sussex Hospitals FT - The Ophthalmic Sunflower
Maternity and Midwifery Services Initiative of the Year

 


Winner: West Midlands AHSN, University of Birmingham, Birmingham Women's and Children’s FT, NIHR ARC West Midlands and The Royal Wolverhampton Trust - BSOTS - Birmingham Symptom Specific Obstetric Triage System

Highly Commended: London Ambulance Service Trust - Expanding and enhancing maternity training in the London Ambulance Service

Finalists:

  • Baby Lifeline - Addressing variability in the community: giving midwives the tools to improve patient safety out of the hospital
  • Cambridge University Hospitals FT - Obstetric Close Observation Unit
  • Imperial College Health Partners with Maternity Services at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital FT, Northwick Park Hospital, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, St Mary’s Hospital, The Hillingdon Hospitals FT and West Middlesex University Hospital - PReCePT-Preventing Cerebral Palsy in Preterm Labour
  • Oxford AHSN, Oxford University Hospitals FT, Royal Berkshire FT, Health Education England e-Learning for Healthcare and OxSTaR - An 'Intelligent' approach to Intermittent Auscultation to improve outcomes for low risk mothers and babies in labour
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT - Making Smoking History
  • Yorkshire & Humber AHSN and Calderdale and Huddersfield FT - Improving detection and rule out of pre-eclampsia 
Mental Health Initiative of the Year

 


Winner: London Ambulance Service Trust - Mental Health Joint Response Car

Highly Commended: Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear FT - SleepWell Project

Finalists:

  • Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust - Reducing Restrictive Practice on a Medium Secure Unit
  • Bradford District Care FT - Creating and Embedding a Systematic Approach to Side Effect Monitoring of Patients Prescribed Clozapine
  • Kingston GP Chambers - Kingston Dementia Support Service
  • NHS Lothian - 'Feeling Safe': Implementing a Multi-Disciplinary Trauma-Informed Model of Care to Reduce Risk in an Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit
  • Northamptonshire Healthcare FT - Improving quality and patient safety outcomes in a female psychiatric inpatient setting
  • South London and Maudsley FT - Crisis Plus
  • West London Trust - Safety Huddles in Mental Health Wards: Taking a QI Approach 
NHS Safeguarding Initiative

 


Winner: The 8 CCG's of Lancashire and South Cumbria, the 7 main Health Trust Providers and the local NHS Regional Team - Development of a Collective Fully Integrated Safeguarding Health System across our ICS

Highly Commended: Homerton University Hospital FT and City and Hackney CCG - The Primary Care MARAC (Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference) Service

Finalists:

  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals FT - Health Setting Domestic and Sexual Abuse Safeguarding
  • Hertfordshire Community Trust - Paediatric Liaison IT Solution for sharing information between Hospital and Provider Services
  • Isle of Wight CCG - Safeguarding Leadership and Primary Care
  • Northumbria Healthcare FT - Integrating a Domestic Abuse Health Advocate Service Across Acute Hospital Services
  • Royal Devon and Exeter FT - Supporting Victims of Domestic Abuse using a Multi-Systems Approach
  • Safeguarding Adults National Network and Health Education England - Safeguarding Adults Level 3 and 4 Training
  • Wolverhampton CCG, Wolverhampton Domestic Violence Forum and Wolverhampton Refugee and Migrant Centre - Empowerment of Hard to Reach Communities in the Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls
Patient Safety Education and Training Award

 


Winner: Cambridge Diabetes Education Programme (CDEP) - Digital Insulin Safety Training for Healthcare Staff

Highly Commended: Oxford AHSN, Oxford University Hospitals FT, Royal Berkshire FT, Health Education England, e-Learning for Healthcare and OxSTaR - Listening with Intelligence: An Evaluative Training Initiative to improve safety for low risk mothers and babies in labour

Finalists:

  • East Suffolk and North Essex Trust - Stroke Oral Care Training Programme
  • Somerset FT - Suicide Prevention and Serious Incidents Reduction
  • South West Yorkshire Partnership FT - Improving training and education in care homes
  • Southern Health and Social Care Trust - Dysphagia Awareness & Management Training
  • Spectrum Community Health CIC - The CSE Respect Programme
  • The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust - Assistant Quality and Safety Educator Project
Patient Safety Innovation of the Year

 


Winner: Oxford AHSN, Oxford University Hospitals FT, Royal Berkshire FT, Health Education England, e-Learning for Healthcare and OxSTaR - Using 'real fetal heart sounds' an innovative solution to teaching and assessing competency in Intermittent Auscultation: improving safety for low risk mothers and babies in labour

Highly Commended: NHS Lanarkshire - The Patient Transfer Scale

Finalists:

  • Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals FT - Sharing How We Care: A Monthly Patient Safety Newsletter and Annual Conference
  • Focus Games and NHS Partners - FluBee Game
  • National Home Oxygen Safety Committee and North Hampshire CCG - Reduction in fatalities following the introduction of the Initial Home Oxygen Risk Mitigation form to all new patients on Domiciliary Oxygen
  • Royal Free London FT - Gentamicin Dose Calculator
  • Salford Care Organisation, part of the Northern Care Alliance Group - Medicines Related Admissions: Identifying and preventing medicines related harm across care boundaries
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT - An Innovative Approach to District Nursing Service Redesign – A service fit for the future
  • West Midlands AHSN, University of Birmingham, Birmingham Women's and Children’s FT, NIHR ARC West Midlands and The Royal Wolverhampton Trust - BSOTS - Birmingham Symptom Specific Obstetric Triage System
Patient Safety Team of the Year

 


Winner: Royal United Hospitals Bath FT - The Sepsis and Kidney Injury Prevention (SKIP) team improving outcomes for patients

Highly Commended: Nursing & Midwifery Council - The Public Support Service Team

Finalists:

  • Portsmouth Hospitals University Trust and Wessex AHSN - Time to ACT Project Team
  • PRIMIS at the University of Nottingham and the AHSN Network - The PINCER Team
  • Royal Devon and Exeter FT - The Chest Trauma MDT 
  • South Tyneside and Sunderland FT and Sunderland CCG - Older Person Care Home Team: Digital NEWS Project
  • Southend University Hospital FT - Acute kidney Injury Policy and Specialist Nurse 
  • West London Trust - Taking Safety Huddles the Extra Mile: Windrush Ward
Perioperative and Surgical Care Award

 


Winner: The Dudley Group FT - A successful initiative to improve pre-operative iron deficiency anaemia

Highly Commended: South Tees Hospitals FT - The Empty Recovery Concept

Finalists:

  • Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children FT - The NatSSIPs 8 e-Learning Module
  • Manchester University FT - Pharmacy led peri-operative medicines optimisation: The Enhanced Surgical Medicines Optimisation Service
  • Manchester University FT and Spire Manchester Hospital - NHS and Independent Sector Thoracic Service Collaboration
  • Salford Royal FT - Preoperative Gold Spinal Marking To enable Correct Site Spine Surgery
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT - Surgical Ambulatory Care Unit (SAU)
Quality Improvement Initiative of the Year

 


Winner: West Quay Medical Centre, Cardiff & Vale University Health Board - Improving Patient Safety through better Access to Appropriate Professionals in Primary Care: a whole system approach

Highly Commended: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Trust - Transformation to reliable and safe Stroke Care with VMI Quality Improvement - The Prideway

Finalists:

  • Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust and Wiltshire CCG - A Collaborative QI approach to improving the quality of care on the Daisy Unit
  • Berkshire Healthcare FT - Achieving Gold Standard in Patient Safety through QI and ISO13485
  • Birmingham Children's Hospital - Learning from Excellence Quality Improvement - LFEQI
  • CBC Health - Assuring the quality of spirometry for diagnosis of Asthma and COPD in a primary care setting
  • Chelsea and Westminster Hospital FT - Introducing an oral care assessment tool with advanced cleaning products into a high-risk clinical setting: Acute Stroke Unit 
  • Great Ormond Street Hospital – Reducing Laboratory Sample Rejections Due to Pre-analytical Errors in Paediatric Setting
  • West Midlands AHSN & NIHR ARC West Midlands - SPACE - A Quality Improvement Initiative in Care Homes
Service User Engagement Award

 


Winner: South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust - Co-Production of a Comic Book in HMP Hydebank Wood Secure College with Young Men In Custody

Highly Commended: Practice Plus Group - Using Prisoner Health Champions to Enhance Health and Wellbeing Outcomes

Finalists:

  • Belfast Health and Social Care Trust - Active Birth Centre
  • Cardiff and Vale University Health Board - Co-Production: Public and Professional working together to redesign and implement a model of care for newly diagnosed Coeliac Disease
  • Royal Brompton & Harefield FT - Engaging people with Cystic Fibrosis to improve service delivery
  • Royal Devon and Exeter FT - Using Patient Engagement and Co-Production to Introduce a New Cancer Rehabilitation Programme
  • Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals FT - Hearing those hard to reach voices: using social media as a platform for engagement
  • Worcestershire Health and Care Trust - BESTIE - Mobile Application
Urgent and Trauma Care Safety Initiative

 


 


Winner: Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT and Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council - Integrated urgent care delivered at home: delivering crisis response within 2 hours and re-ablement within 2 days

Highly Commended: Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals FT - The Introduction of a Thoracic Injury Pathway to a Major Trauma Unit

Finalists:

  • Bolton FT - Radiographer Led Discharge of ED patients
  • London Ambulance Service Trust - Specialist Falls Service: To improve quality and safe care for older people
  • Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals FT - Improving patient safety by reducing length of stay in the Emergent Department
  • West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust - Senior Medics' Assessment and Review Trial (SMART) Initiative