Healthcare Innovation Award winners from Sussex partnership NHS trust with the Guardian's David Brindle (right). Photograph: Anna Gordon for the GuardianSix organisations – including a school, a university department and a data management company – have been named as winners of the first Guardian Healthcare Innovation Awards.
Two NHS trusts and the Office of the Chief Scientific Officer also received awards at a ceremony at the Guardian's London offices on Thursday.
The awards, which aim to celebrate and share best practice across the healthcare sector, were presented across six categories – service delivery innovation, innovation with technology, innovation in hospital admissions, leadership innovation, partnership innovation and workforce innovation.
Oxford University's department of primary care health sciences won the service delivery award for an emergency multidisciplinary unit at Abingdon hospital, which offers a model for elderly care.
Southern health NHS foundation trust was winner in the leadership category for its Going Viral programme, which has coached, developed and supported 550 staff since its launch in June last year.
The teenage health project run by Rivington and Blackrod and Ladybridge high schools in Lancashire won the partnership award its work with NHS, local government and sports centres to offer pupils health and wellbeing advice.
In the hospital admissions category, Sussex partnership NHS trust won for its Brighton Urgent Response Service, which has cut waiting times for people arriving at A&E with mental health problems, as well as seeing fewer patients admitted to the observation ward via the emergency department.
The Office of the Chief Scientific Officer won the workforce category for a project that aims to help healthcare scientists become part of a sustainable and flexible workforce.
In the technology category, the winner was data management company Intelesant for a tool that aims to change the culture around end-of-life care plans.
Hundreds of entries were submitted for the awards, sponsored by NHS England, GE, Unipart and 3M, which aim to showcase ideas or services that significantly improve the quality or management of care for patients.
Each category winner and all the shortlisted entries are being profiled on the Guardian's Healthcare Professionals Network so their projects and programmes can be shared with the rest of the sector.
David Brindle, the Guardian's public services editor, who chaired the awards judging lunch, said: "The NHS doesn't have a good reputation for spreading innovation, so we were thrilled to receive so many high-quality entries for these awards in their first year.
He added: "What's great to see is how many of our winners and runners-up come from outside the NHS itself, showing that it is increasingly open to partnerships that deliver improved outcomes for patients."
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