2020 HSJ Value Award Winners

Congratulations to the HSJ Value Awards 2020 winners and highly commended teams! Click on each category to view the winners, highly commended and finalists.

Transformation

Acute Service Redesign Initiative

 

Winners:

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT and Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council - Integrated Urgent Care Team - Home First

Highly Commended:

Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, North West Paediatric Allergy and Infection Network and North West TB Control Board - A new approach to an old disease; delivering specialist care to children with TB close to home

Finalists:

  • County Durham and Darlington FT and Partners: Durham Dales, Sedgefield & Easington CCG, Sunderland CCG, North Durham CCG, Darlington CCG, South Tyneside CCG and Consultant Connect - Tele-skin Two Week Wait Pathway
  • East Lancashire Hospitals Trust - Ambulatory Emergency Care - A service developed from the front line
  • Kettering General Hospital FT - Using QSIR to support the delivery of a Urology - One-Stop
  • London North West University Healthcare Trust, Imperial College Healthcare Trust and Ealing CCG - Heart Lounge Ealing ACU
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT - Place Based Paediatrics
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT - The introduction of an interactive appointment reminder service to reduce Outpatients DNA’s
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT, Tameside and Glossop CCG and Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council - Improving System Flow - Tameside and Glossop System Approach to reducing Stranded and Super Stranded Patients
Specialist Service Redesign Initiative

 

Winners:

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT - Place Based Paediatrics

Highly Commended:

Moorfields Eye Centre at Croydon University Hospital, Moorfields Eye Hospital FT - The Chronicles of the Moorfields Rapid Access Clinic at Croydon : The Right patient, the Right clinic and the Right time

Finalists:

  • Central and North West London FT - Crystal House Project, CAMHS LD Specialist Inpatient Unit
  • Cheshire and Wirral Partnership FT - ABI Rehabilitation and Placement Service (RAPS)
  • Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals FT - Quality Improvement in Medical Education and Training (QiMET) - Hybrid International Emergency Medicine (HIEM) Training
  • Leeds Community Healthcare Trust and Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust - Leeds Community Neurological Discharge Team
  • NHS England and NHS Improvement, Portsmouth Hospitals Trust and University Hospital Southampton FT - Improving Vascular Services in South East Hampshire
  • North Tees and Hartlepool FT - Best value biologic pathway
  • The Royal Wolverhampton Trust - The CRAFT System (The Colour Risk Assessment File and Treatment System)
  • Torbay and South Devon FT - Group clinics: saving time, maintaining quality
  • University Hospital Southampton FT - A Data Driven Service Improvement of an IBD helpline
Primary Care or Community Service Redesign Initiative

 

Winners:

Primary Integrated Community Services (PICS) - Acute Home Visiting Service

Highly Commended:

Northern Devon Healthcare Trust - Improving outcomes through the Lower Limb Leg Ulcer and Well Leg Service

Finalists:

  • Brigstock & South Norwood Partnership - Embedding group consultations for people with Type 2 Diabetes
  • Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire CCG - Reducing unwarranted variation in primary care chronic disease monitoring
  • Kent Community Health FT and Maidstone Borough Council - Rough Sleeper Project (Maidstone)
  • Lewisham and Greenwich Trust, South London and Maudsley FT and Lewisham CCG - CATFORD Care Homes Project
  • NHS 24 - Primary Care Triage Scotland
  • North Bristol Trust and Hanham Secure Health -  HMP Bristol Hand Injury Project
  • Northumberland CCG, Northumberland County Council and Northumbria Healthcare FT - The Northumberland Continuing Healthcare Partnership
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT - District Nursing Service Redesign – A service fit for the future
  • University of Manchester, Health Innovation Manchester, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale CCG, Bury CCG, Salford CCG, Wigan Borough CCG - The DECIDE™ Education Programme; supporting community clinicians
System or Commissioner Led Service Redesign Initiative

Winners:

West Hampshire CCG, Wessex AHSN, Somerset CCG, Kernow CCG - RESTORE2 - right care, right place, right time for care home residents

Highly Commended:

Health Innovation Manchester, North Manchester General Hospital, HMP Styal and Spectrum Healthcare - Greater Manchester Hepatitis C Elimination: Prison-Based Rapid Test and Treat

Finalists:

  • Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire CCG - System Redesign of DVT Services 
  • Health Education England - General Practice Nurse Specialty Training
  • NW London Collaboration of CCGs - Integrated mental health pathway in NW London Diabetes Transformation Programme
  • Salford CCG, Salford Care Organisation, Salford Council, AQuA and GMMH - Salford Care Homes Improvement Journey
  • Small Steps Big Changes - Small Steps Big Changes - Family Mentor Service
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT and Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council - Living Well at Home Redesign through collaborative care planning
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT, Tameside and Glossop CCG, Tameside and Glossop Action Together, The Bureau and Cressbrook - Tackling Social Demand in General Practice through a collaborative asset based approach
  • The West Midlands Regional CCGs in partnership with West Midlands Ambulance Service - England's First 111/999 Fully Integrated Urgent & Emergency Care Service
  • Thurrock Integrated Care Partnership: NELFT, Thurrock Borough Council, Thurrock CCG, Mid and South Essex University Hospitals Group and Essex Partnership University FT - Better Care Together Thurrock
Mental Health Service Redesign Initiative

Winners:

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership FT, Eastern Cheshire CCG, South Cheshire CCG and Vale Royal CCG - Redesigning adult and older people's mental health services

Highly Commended:

NELFT,  Downshall Primary School, London Borough of Redbridge and AgeUK Barking Havering & Redbridge - Downshall Intergenerational Provision

Finalists:

  • Harrow CCG, Harrow Local Authority and Barnardo's (Harrow Horizons) - Harrow Horizons
  • Hertfordshire Partnership University FT - CAMHS Home Treatment Team
  • Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust - Criminal Justice and Liaison Diversion Service (CJLDS)
  • Liverpool University Hospitals FT, Liverpool CCG & Stroke Association - Liverpool Stroke Recovery Partnership - Psychological & Emotional Wellbeing
  • NHS 24 - Mental Health Team
  • SDSmyhealthcare - SDSmyhealthcare Mental Health Community Clinic
  • TalkPlus, North East Hampshire CCG and Oakley Health Group - Integrated Mental Health and Long Term Physical Conditions Service
  • Tees Esk and Wear Valleys FT - North Yorkshire and York Community Learning Disability Service – Initial Assessments : more co-production, timely clinical documentation and improved staff wellbeing
     

Clinical and Medical Services

Cancer Care Initiative of the Year

 

Winners:

Wessex Cancer Alliance and University Hospital Southampton FT - WesFit: Promoting Spread and Adoption of Personalised Prehabilitation Care Plans for People with Cancer

Highly Commended:

East Lancashire CCG and Blackburn with Darwen CCG - Pennine Lancashire Primary Care Cancer Team

Finalists:

  • Mid and South Essex CCGs - Making colorectal cancer diagnosis FIT for the future
  • North Central London CCGs - Quantitative Implementing Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT)
  • Northern Devon Healthcare Trust - Acute Oncology Service
  • South West Cancer Alliances - Implementation of Symptomatic Faecal Immunochemical Testing in the South West
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT, Pennine Care FT and Macmillan Cancer Support - Creating a psychological therapy service for people living with cancer
  • The Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals FT - DIEP Flap multidisciplinary surgery team, empowering women with breast cancer
  • University Hospitals of Leicester Trust - FIT for symptomatic
Cardiovascular Care Initiative of the Year

 

Winners:

West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership and Yorkshire and Humber AHSN - West Yorkshire and Harrogate Healthy Hearts Project

Highly Commended:

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust - Combined Heart Failure And Device services

Finalists:

  • Medway CCG - Clinical Variation - Tackling Cardiovascular Disease in Primary Care
  • Southport & Formby Health - Southport & Formby Community Cardiology Service
  • Tameside and Glossop CCG, Health Innovation Manchester and Interface Clinical Services - Stroke/Atrial Fibrillation Project
  • University Hospitals Plymouth Trust - Piloting specialist heart failure nurse intervention in acute admissions and emergency care
Diabetes Care Initiative of the Year

Winners:

Guy's and St Thomas' FT - Youth Empowerment Skills Programme (YES)

Highly Commended:

East Midlands Network, De-Montfort University and University Hospitals of Leicester Trust - Diabetes Education Application (deapp)

Finalists:

  • Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge CCGs - Diabetes Quality Improvement at Scale
  • Bedfordshire CCG, Bedford Hospital Trust, Luton and Dunstable University Hospital FT and East London FT - Improving Outcomes for people with Diabetes Accross Bedfordshire
  • Brigstock & South Norwood Partnership - Embedding diabetes group consultations
  • Calderdale and Huddersfield FT - Developing the Diabetes In-patient Nursing Team to provide safe and effective care
  • Kettering General Hospital FT - Outpatient IV antibiotics in the diabetic foot: delivery model and outcomes of an antimicrobial pharmacist and podiatry led service
  • Sussex Community FT Here (Care Unbound) - Diabetes Care For You
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT, Pole Bank Care Home, Balmoral Care Home and Charnley House Care Homed - A review of administration of insulin in the community setting – pilot scheme to for care home staff to deliver insulin injections, supported by District Nursing
  • Walsall Healthcare Trust - Diabetes Transformation Project
MSK Care Initiative of the Year

Winners:

Health Innovation Network - Enabling Self-management and Coping of Arthritic Pain through Exercise, ESCAPE-pain

Highly Commended:

West Kent Alliance and Partners: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust, West Kent CCG, Kent Community Health FT, West Kent Health, High Weald Lewes Havens CCG, Sussex/East Surrey CCG, Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust - West Kent Alliance MSK Pathway Transformation

Finalists:

  • Northern Devon Healthcare Trust - Enhanced recovery programme for elective joint replacement
  • Sussex MSK Partnership Central, Here (Care Unbound), Sussex Community FT, Sussex Partnership FT and Horder Healthcare - Cultivating a Culture of Evidence Based Value Medicine
     
Respiratory Care Initiative of the Year

 

Winners:

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton FT - ImpACT+

Highly Commended:

West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust, Central London Community Healthcare Trust and Herts Valleys CCG - Respiratory point of care testing (R-POCT) to facilitate diagnosis and treatment in the community for COPD exacerbations

Finalists:

  • Kettering General Hospital FT -  Day case thoracoscopy with pleurodesis
  • Mid Essex CCG - Giving mid Essex COPD patients GOLD-standard care
  • North Tees and Hartlepool FT -Transformation of OPAT services to improve capacity and patient experience
  • Respiratory Care Solutions - Standardising Care and reducing Variation
  • Tameside and Glossop CCG and Health Innovation Manchester - COPD Therapy Review Service
     
Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Award

Winners:

The Great North Children's Hospital, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals FT - The Kidzmed project - teaching children to swallow tablet medication

Highly Commended:

Mid Essex CCG - Technology-enabled rapid access clinic for infants with Cow’s Milk Protein Allergy

Finalists:

  • Brighton and Hove CCG - A dietitian lead medicines management team model of practice to address inappropriate oral nutritional supplement prescribing in primary care
  • Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire CCG - The implementation and evaluation of a GP practice led centralised repeat prescription management hub in North Somerset
  • Central London Community Healthcare Trust - Evaluation of clinical pharmacists in a community integrated multi-disciplinary care model
  • East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub - Parenteral Nutrition Framework
  • East Sussex Healthcare Trust - Pharmacist Led Fast Track Biosimilar Switching
  • Kettering General Hospital FT - Delivery Cycle Optimisation to Reduce Medicines Wastage in Homecare Services
  • King's College Hospital FT - Liver Transplant Pharmacy Service
  • Manchester University FT - Pharmacy led peri-operative medicines optimisation: The Enhanced Surgical Medicines Optimisation Service (ESMOS)
  • Wirral University Teaching Hospital FT - A Medicines Management Technician supporting Medicines Administration
Clinical Support Services Award

 

Winners:

Oxford University Hospitals FT - Tea Trolley Teaching

Highly Commended:

Imperial College Healthcare Trust - Hand Hygiene Improvement Programme

Finalists:

  • Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Trust - Acute Frailty Therapy Team
  • NHS England and NHS Improvement and Health Protection Scotland - National Infection Prevention and Control Policy
  • NHS London Procurement Partnership and North West London STP - A shared Radiology Technology Platform
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT - First Contact Practitioner
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT and Tameside and Glossop CCG and Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council - Establishment of a local gram negative blood stream infection group to improve knowledge of blood stream infection (GNBSi) and basic measures to reduce in risk in the community setting in care homes and the wider community

Operational and Corporate Services

Operations and Performance Initiative of the Year

 

Winners:

Kettering General Hospital FT - Clinical Coding Transformation Programme - Getting it right for out patients, our staff and our Trust

Highly Commended:

Sheffield Children's FT - Modernising Outpatient Programme

Finalists:

  • Bolton FT - Bolton Combined Deflection Scheme
  • Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals FT - Quality Improvement in Medical Education and Training (QiMET) - Hybrid International Emergency Medicine (HIEM) Training
  • Eastbourne, Hailsham and Seaford CCG and Hastings and Rother CCG - The Frail and Vulnerable Patients Scheme Quality Review
  • London North West University Healthcare Trust - Direct Engagement Efficiency Project
  • London North West University Healthcare Trust - High calibre staff improving patient outcomes
  • Mid Essex CCG and All Saints' Church of England Primary School, Maldon - Maldon Up Project
  • North Tees and Hartlepool FT - Best Value Biologic Pathway
  • Oxford University Hospitals FT - Tea Trolley Teaching: A novel teaching method in a challenging environment
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT - New models of care using a data driven service transformational approach
Facilities Management or Estates Initiative of the Year

Winners:

University College London Hospitals FT - The New Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals

Highly Commended:

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust - Leeds Teaching Hospitals Portering Safety Huddles; Reducing Waste, Improving Efficiency and Patient Care

Finalists:

  • Central and North West London FT, Quality Trusted Solutions LLP - Design and Build of Crystal House - clearing the way for young people with learning difficulties.
  • Derbyshire Community Health Services FT - Agile Working Initiative
  • Lewisham and Greenwich Trust - A new way of procuring and delivering Soft FM Services
  • Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust - Mission Impossible: The 12 week mortuary makeover
Finance Team of the Year

 

Winners:

Sherwood Forest Hospitals FT - Finance Department

Highly Commended:

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust - Finance supporting Outstanding Care, Exceptional People

Finalists:

Mid Essex CCG - Placing Finance at the heart of a commissioning organisation
Suffolk and North East Essex ICS - ICS Directors of Finance Team
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT - Generating Efficiencies through Engagement

People & Organisational Development Initiative of the Year

Winners:

Black Country Healthcare FT - Cultural Ambassador Programme

Highly Commended:

Mersey Care FT - Respect and Civility at Mersey Care

Finalists:

  • Dorset HealthCare University FT - Brilliant Bands 2-4
  • Hertfordshire Community Trust - Healthcare Assistants administering insulin project
  • London North West University Healthcare Trust - Bronze Accreditation for Workforce Quality Assurance from IAOCR
  • Manchester Local Care Organisation, Manchester City Council - Our Manchester Strengths-Based Development Programme
  • North Middlesex University Hospital Trust - Staff-led improvements
  • Northamptonshire CCGs - Primary Care Nurse Training Programme
  • Univeristy Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust - Medical Retina Nurse Led Intra-vitreal Injection Service
  • University Hospitals of Derby and Burton FT - Working for Longer Project
  • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh FT and Edge Hill University - Postgraduate partnership programme changes lives around the world and boosts NHS staff numbers
IT & Digital Innovation Award

Winners:

Focus Games and NHS Partners - FluBee Game

Highly Commended:

Crawley CCG - Early identification of patients reaching end of life - a Digital decision tool

Finalists:

  • Cambridge University Hospitals FT - eHospital - joined-up healthcare for our patients
  • Derbyshire Community Health Services FT - Digitising end-to-end immunisation and vaccination systems to reduce clinical and administrative burden, improve service delivery and parents/schools experience
  • Leicestershire Partnership Trust - ChatHealth
  • NHS London Procurement Partnership - NHS Temporary Staffing Bank and Agency Spend Dashboards
  • Royal Free London FT - Improving Joy at Work - Electronic Self Rostering
  • South, Central and West CSU - Development, delivery, and support of multiple major integrated care record and interoperability programmes
  • Sunderland GP Alliance and 7i Group - Voice of the Patient
  • Univeristy Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust - Digital Empowerment for Patients with Diabetic Foot Disease; A Topol Fellowship Project
  • University Hospital Southampton FT - digiRounds
HSJ Value Award of the Year

Winners:

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust - Vocational Rehabilitation Service including the Job Taster Programme

Highly Commended:

Greater Manchester Urgent Primary Care Alliance (in collaboration with NWAS and the GMHSCP) - Clinical Assessment Service Pilot

Finalists:

  • Bolton FT - Bolton Combined Deflection Scheme
  • Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire CCG - Reducing unwarranted variation in primary care chronic disease monitoring
  • Croydon CCG - Spreading Group Consultations
  • East Kent Hospitals University FT, Ashford CCG and Health Navigator - Performance evaluation of an NHS commissioned service (Health Navigator) in East Kent
  • Mid Essex CCG and All Saints' Church of England Primary School, Maldon - The Maldon Up project – intergenerational interaction that builds wellbeing and community
  • North Tees and Hartlepool FT - Quality Improvement through Efficient & Cost Effective use of Medicines
  • Royal Free London FT - Improving Joy at Work - Electronic Self Rostering
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT, Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council and Tameside & Glossop CCG - CARE TOGETHER - an integrated approach to health and care in Tameside & Glossop to improve population health