PIF members shine in HSJ Awards nominations

PIF member Barts Health NHS Trust has earned nominations in 8 categories in the HSJ Awards.

This means it tops the list of finalists going forward to the awards night in November, when winners will be announced.

Barts’ nominations include an entry in the Reducing Healthcare Inequalities for Children and Young People Award.

Below is a full list of shortlisted PIF members, sorted by category.

Data-Driven Transformation Award

• North West London ICS, in partnership with South East London ICS, Imperial College Health Partners and Vizify, for its London Asthma Decision Support Tool (LADS)
• University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust for its automated weight management programme referrals
• West Suffolk Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Stroke Service for its use of data to improve patient care and outcomes

Digitising Patient Care Award

• Barts Health Trust, in partnership with Barts Heart Centre and St. Bartholomew's Hospital for its digitalisation of Electrocardiograms (ECGs)
• East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation for digitising personalised care for cancer patients
• Diabetes UK and NHS England, in partnership with University of Leeds, University of East Anglia, DiabetesTechnologyNetwork-UK and Local Maternity Systems, for improving pregnancy outcomes for women with Type 1 diabetes

Driving Efficiency Through Technology

• Barts Health Trust for The ATLAS Pathway – a virtual ward and outpatient angiography for low-risk patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes
• Homerton Healthcare Foundation Trust for Verbo – an online speech and language therapy toolkit for children and young people
• University Hospital of Leicester Trust for its atrial fibrillation virtual ward.
• Diabetes UK and NHS England, in partnership with University of Leeds, University of East Anglia, DiabetesTechnologyNetwork-UK and Local Maternity Systems, for improving pregnancy outcomes for women with Type 1 diabetes

HSJ Partnership Award

• University Hospital of Leicester Trust, in partnership with Chiesi, Leicestershire and Rutland LPC, for its Take AIR Inhaler Recycling Scheme
• NHS England, in partnership with Gilead Sciences, CGL, Forward Trust, Humankind, NHS APA, Turning Point, WDP, We Are With You, and the Hepatitis C Trust, for cross-provider data analysis to drive prioritisation of hepatitis C elimination efforts
• Nottingham University Hospitals Trust and Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust, in partnership with Inspira Health, Medtronic, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital FT, Manchester University FT, Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust, and University Hospitals Plymouth Trust, for the Primary Care Heart Failure Service
• University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, in partnership with Vision RT, for implementing tattoo-less radiotherapy

Innovation and Improvement in Reducing Healthcare Inequalities 

• Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership Trust, for Midlands Op Courage 
• NHS England, in partnership with Midlands & Lancashire CSU and Specialist Pharmacy Services for Learning Disabilities and or Autism: Developing a Community of Practice
• University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust for RESPOND: an Integrated Asylum-seeker and Refugee Health Service

Integrated Care Initiative of the Year

• The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre for The Cheshire & Merseyside Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression Service

Medicines, Pharmacy and Prescribing Initiative of the Year

• Barts Health Trust, in partnership with North East London ICB, Clinical Effectiveness Group (Queen Mary University of London) and UCL Partners, for its specialist pharmacy led cardiovascular risk factor management in primary care
• University Hospitals of Leicester Trust, in partnership with Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICS, for LUCID Medicines Optimisation, an integrated pharmacist-led care for chronic kidney disease

Military and Civilian Health Partnership Award

• NHS England, in partnership with Health & Justice Commissioning, North East & Yorkshire, for Sexual Assault Whilst Serving: Commissioning a Forensic Nurse Advisor (Military) as part of the Regional Sexual Assault Referral Centre Service
• Barts Health, in partnership with London's Air Ambulance Physician Response Unit, for the Defence Nursing Collaboration

Modernising Diagnostics Award

• Barts Health Trust, in partnership with North East London Cancer Alliance and North East London Imaging Network, for the Mile End Hospital Early Diagnostics Centre
• University Hospitals of Leicester Trust for Endo-sponge, a sponge on a string to detect oesophageal cancer in the community

NHS Communications Initiative of the Year

• NHS England for Solving Together

NHS Race Equality Award

• Mid Cheshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, in partnership with East Cheshire and Countess of Chester Foundation Trust, for Diverse Voices in Leadership

Patient Safety Award

• Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board for its BCU APPLE approach for Hospital Acquired Thrombosis
• Isle of Wight Trust, in partnership with Isle of Wight Ambulance Service, for the Integrated Critical Care Pathways Project
• Southern Health & Social Care Trust for Medicines Management Safety for Domiciliary Care Workers Supporting Adults with Dysphagia

Performance Recovery Award

• Barts Health Trust – Royal London Hospital Imaging Recovery Team
• Cardiff and Vale University Health Board for changes to planned care 
• Coventry and Warwickshire ICS for a whole-systems approach to improving the physical health of people with a severe mental illness
• University Hospitals Bristol and Weston Foundation Trust for Every Minute Matters

Primary and Community Care Innovation of the Year

• NHS England for its Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) hubs
• Southern Health & Social Care Trust for implementation of a virtual interdisciplinary dysphagia clinic in IS Care Homes

Primary and Community Care Provider of the Year

• University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust, in partnership with Midlands Partnership Trust, for the Community Rapid Intervention service and Urgent Care Coordination centre

Provider Collaboration of the Year

• Wirral University Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust, in partnership with Countess of Chester Foundation Trust, for the Surgical Centre at Clatterbridge

Reducing Healthcare Inequalities for Children and Young People Award

• Barts Health Trust for equity in care for children with retinoblastoma and a paradigm shift in its detection

Staff Wellbeing Award

• Barts Health Trust for its NHS Staff Cardiovascular Diseases Health Checks
• University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust for SpeakUp – a digital tool for staff to raise concerns

Towards Net Zero Award

• Imperial College Healthcare Trust for Green shoots: empowering staff to make carbon and cost savings in challenging financial times
• NHS England for The NHS Net Zero Supplier Roadmap

Workforce Initiative of the Year

• Royal College of Psychiatrists for Physician Associates in Mental Health

Good luck to all the finalists. You can view the full shortlist via the HSJ Awards website here.