Richard Stubbs, head of commercial and international innovation at NHS England addresses the audience at the innovation awards. Photograph: Anna Gordon
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Monday, 28 October 2013
Guardian awards hail healthcare innovators
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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Saturday, 28 September 2013
Guardian unveils Healthcare Innovation Awards shortlist
The Guardian Healthcare Innovation Awards celebrate and share best practice across different areas of the healthcare sector. Photograph: Pilar Olivares/REUTERSA school, a charity, and a social enterprise are all in the running for the first Guardian Healthcare Innovation Awards.
The shortlist for the awards includes entries from outside the healthcare sector, as well as NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups.
The awards, sponsored by GE, Unipart and 3M, are an opportunity to celebrate and share best practice across different areas of the healthcare sector – both inside and out of the NHS.
They aim to showcase ideas or services which significantly improve the quality or management of care for patients and share them with the rest of the sector.
The judges, including Dean Royles, chief executive of NHS Employers, Chris Hopson, chief executive of the Foundation Trust Network, and Dame Barbara Young, chief executive of Diabetes UK, looked at a number of entries in different categories including service delivery, technology, hospital admissions, leadership, partnership and workforce.
Here is the full list of organisations shortlisted this year. The winners will be announced at a ceremony on Thursday 24 October 2013 in London.
D2Digital by Design
Department of primary care health sciences, University of Oxford
Moorfields eye hospital
National Blood Service, John Radciffe hospital
Intelesant
Sandwell and West Birmingham hospitals NHS trust
Portsmouth hospitals NHS trust
Sussex partnership NHS trust
NHS South Worcestershire CCG
Southern health NHS foundation trust
NHS Dorset CCG
Centre for Patient Leadership
Spice and the Young Foundation
Rivington and Blackrod high school
Michael Yoakleys' charity
Office of the Chief Scientific Officer
University College London hospitals
United Response
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