Winners 2021

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

Acute Service Redesign Initiative
 

Winner: Get It Right First Time: Incorporating Covid-19 - Medway FT

Highly Commended:  PEACE - Pathway for Eating disorders and Autism developed from Clinical Experience - South London and Maudsley FT

Finalists:

  • Quality Improvement Initiative - IV pathway from acute medical services to community team to prevent unnecessary hospital admission - Chelsea and Westminster FT (West Middlesex Hospital site Ambulatory Emergency Care Team) in partnership with Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare Trust (Integrated Community Response Service)
  • CPAP Outside the Walls of Critical Care - COVID 19-Liverpool University Hospitals FT
  • MeFit: Prehabilitation for patients awaiting cancer, vascular and orthopaedic major surgery during the Covid-19 pandemic-Medway FT in collaboration with Kent and Medway Partnership Trust
  • Shared Referral Pathway-Mid Yorkshire Hospital Trust, Wakefield CCG, North Kirklees CCG, Wakefield GP Practices and North Kirklees GP Practices
  • Subspecialist training programme for Advanced Surgical Care Practitioners and Physician Associates-Surgical Division, Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust
  • West Kent Integrated Care Partnership Video Consultations-West Kent Integrated Care Partnership
Primary Care or Community Service Redesign Initiative

 

Winner: North-West London COVID-19 primary care remote monitoring - North West London CCGs, Hillingdon GP Confederation, Central London Healthcare CiC, Imperial College Healthcare Trust, NHSX, AstraZeneca Digital Health Team, Huma

Highly Commended: A Digital Recovery Pathway for Severe Mental Illness - City and Hackney ICP, North East London CCG, East London FT, the Advocacy Project, Core Sport

Finalists:

  • Culturally Focused IAPT for Communities by Communities - City and Hackney ICP, North East London CCG, Mind, Derman, Bikur Cholim, Homerton University Hospital FT
  • NHS Seacole Centre at Headley Court Surrey - Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust
  • Hounslow Working Together Partnership - Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare Trust, Hounslow Primary Care, Hounslow GP Consortium, Hounslow CCG, Groundwork, H4ALL, Hounslow Local Authority, North West London CCG, West London Trust, and Chelsea and Westminster FT
  • Personal Health Budgets - John Taylor Hospice
  • Spreading video group clinics - NHS England and Improvement General Practice Nurse Ten Point Plan National Team with Redmoor-ELC Partnership
  • Living well at home with dementia using AI - South Warwickshire FT
Specialist Service Redesign Initiative

 

Winner: Enhanced Supportive Care in cancer: Embedding service redesign, improving experience, making a difference - Clatterbridge Cancer Centre FT, The Royal Devon & Exeter Hospitals FT and NHSE/I Specialised Commissioning Improving Value and South West region teams

Highly Commended: SHSCT Children's Disability Service - Children's Disability Service, Southern Health and Social Care Trust N.Ireland

Finalists:

  • Ambulatory Specialist Palliative Care in the Clinical Decisions Unit during COVID -19 - Clatterbridge Cancer Centre FT - Liverpool
  • Implementation of Radiographer Led Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices (CIED) monitoring for patients undergoing Radiotherapy - Clatterbridge Cancer Centre FT and Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital FT
  • North East London Child Sexual Abuse Hub - Newham CCG
  • Shared Care Glaucoma at Royal Preston Hospital - Lancashire Teaching Hospitals FT
  • STONES: Stone meeting Timely communication Outcomes New stone referrals Evidenced based care Savings - Southern Health and Social Care Trust
  • SUMMIT: ‘Systematic Multi-disciplinary Management of Investigation and inTervention’ - Royal Marsden FT
Mental Health Service Redesign Initiative

 

Winner: Culturally Focused IAPT for Communities by Communities - City and Hackney ICP, North East London CCG, Derman, Bikur Cholim, Mind, Homerton University Hospital FT

Highly Commended: London Ambulance Service Mental Health Joint Response Car - London Ambulance Service Trust

Finalists:

  • One Community - Central North West London FT
  • A Digital Recovery Pathway for Severe Mental Illness - City and Hackney ICP, North East London CCG, East London FT, The Advocacy Project, Core Sport
  • Keeping Well: supporting staff wellbeing during a pandemic - West London Trust & Central North West London FT
  • Newham Perinatal Mental Health Team Intensive Care Pathway - East London FT
  • NHS 24 Mental Health Redesign - NHS 24
  • North East London Child Sexual Abuse Hub - Newham CCG
System or Commissioner Led Service Redesign Initiative

 

Winner: North East London Child Sexual Abuse Hub - Newham CCG

Highly Commended: Hounslow Working Together Programme - Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare Trust

Finalists:

  • Tower Hamlets Together – Delivering Better Health Through Partnership - LB Tower Hamlets, Tower Hamlets CCG, Barts Health Trust, East London FT, Tower Hamlets GP Care Group, Community Voluntary Sector
  • Integrated working: A System approach to resetting and delivering Outpatients, Diagnostics and Clinical Pathways in the North Alliance - North Alliance of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough STP - NWAngliaFT, CPFT, Primary Care, PCVS, PHE, CCG
  • North Tyneside CCG partnership with Livi - North Tyneside CCG
  • SNEE ICS - Building our Accord; Collaboration, Adaptability & Resilience - Suffolk and North East Essex ICS
  • Spreading video group clinics in England - NHSEI-Redmoor-ELC
  • West Kent Integrated Diabetes Service - West Kent Integrated Care Partnership
Public and Preventative Health Service Redesign Initiative

 

Winner: Sending Bespoke Automated eCalendar invites and reminders for cervical screening - West Green & Hornsey Wood Green Surgeries

Highly Commended: Hepatitis C testing and treatment pathway in an Immigration Removal Centre - Nottinghamshire Healthcare FT, United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust and Nottingham University Hospitals Trust

Finalists:

  • Championing Wellness - community-based blood pressure testing - Cheshire & Merseyside Health and Care Partnership
  • Tip Top Teeth: Hospital-based Oral Health Prevention Programme - Chelsea and Westminster FT, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, City of Westminster, Public Health England (London)
  • Somerset Open Mental Health - Somerset FT, in Partnership with Somerset CCG, voluntary and community sector Alliance, Experts by Experience and Somerset County Council
  • Uncovering the hidden burden of disease in Redbridge - Redbridge Primary Care Networks, Healthbridge Direct GP Federation, Redbridge CCG
Cardiovascular Care Initiative of the Year

 

Winner: Oxford Integrated Cardiology Service: Creating Value at the Primary and Secondary Care Interface in Cardiovascular Medicine - Oxford University Hospitals FT

Highly Commended: Cardiology Shared Referral Pathway - Mid Yorkshire Hospital Trust, Wakefield CCG, North Kirklees CCG, Wakefield GP Practices and North Kirklees GP Practices

Finalists:

  • Implantable Loop Recorder - Review of Service - Southern Health and Social Care Trust
  • Liverpool Integrated Heart Failure Multi-Speciality Multidisciplinary Team - Liverpool University Hospitals FT, Liverpool CCG
  • The innovative use of immersive technology to maintain and improve children heart services during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Vision of the future... today - Alder Hey Children's FT
Paediatric Care Initiative of the Year

 

Winner: Tower Hamlets Together - Born Well, Growing Well Asthma and Wheeze Project - LB Tower Hamlets, Tower Hamlets CCG, Barts Health Trust, East London FT, Tower Hamlets GP Care Group, Community Voluntary Sector

Highly Commended: Healthier Together programme - Hampshire and Isle of Wight STP, Dorset STP, Wessex Clinical Networks, CCGs across Hampshire and Dorset and Wessex Local Medical Committees

Finalists:

  • Children’s Community Respiratory Physiotherapy Team (including Rapid Response) - Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust
  • Great Oaks from Little Acorns Grow: Solution-Focused Approaches Enable Flourishing Lives after Tough Beginnings - Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals Trust
  • Lincolnshire Children's Rapid Response Respiratory Service - Lincolnshire Community Health Services Trust
  • MyGOSH patient portal - Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
  • North East London Child Sexual Abuse Hub - Newham CCG
  • The UK's 1st Paediatric Physician Associate Programme - Alder Hey Children's Hospital FT
Respiratory Care Initiative of the Year

 

Winner: Children’s Community Respiratory Physiotherapy Team (including Rapid Response)  - Nottinghamshire Healthcare FT

Highly Commended: Ambulatory Home Ventilation service - Liverpool University Hospitals FT

Finalists:

  • Care Home Initiative - North East London FT
  • COVID Virtual Clinic - East and North Hertfordshire Trust
  • Covid-19 Point of Care testing hub (CoV-19 POC) - University Hospital Southampton FT
  • CPFT Community Respiratory Urgent Triage Pilot for Cambridgeshire - Cambridge and Peterborough FT in collaboration with Primary Care across the North Alliance
  • Virtual Reality Pulmonary Rehabilitation programme - North Lincolnshire CCG
Diabetes Care Initiative of the Year

 

Winner: Using data to improve the care of people with diabetes across Oxfordshire - Oxfordshire CCG, Oxford University Hospitals FT, Oxford Health FT, South Central and West Commissioning Support Unit

Highly Commended: Person-centred practice finally made real and at scale before, during and after COVID - Paediatric Diabetes Team, Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals Trust

Finalists:

  • Diabetes Prevention Decathlon - South West London Health and Care Partnership
  • Newham Diabetes Transformation Programme – supporting young people (16-25 years) with Type 1 Diabetes - NHS Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest and Newham CCGs & Barts Health Trust, General practice in Newham & East London FT (ELFT)
  • Optimising care, enhancing safety and supporting system resilience through collaboration - our interorganisational virtual MDT - Luton CCG (now merged into Bedfordshire Luton and Milton Keynes CCG) and Cambridge Community Services
  • West Kent Integrated Diabetes Service - West Kent Integrated Care Partnership
Cancer Care Initiative of the Year

 

Winner: Holistic wellbeing calls for cancer patients - South Tees Hospitals FT

Highly Commended: Sending Bespoke Automated eCalendar invites and reminders for cervical screening - West Green & Hornsey Wood Green Surgeries

Finalists:

  • Early warning alert system for small cell lung cancer reduces time from diagnosis to treatment and reduces 30 days mortality - Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester Trust
  • Best Breast team: Implementing a nurse led Recovery Package programme for breast cancer patients in a rural symptomatic unit - Northern Devon Healthcare Trust
  • EPR Cancer Pathway Algorithm; development and implementation in our Colorectal Big Room - Lancashire Teaching Hospitals
  • Rapid Diagnostic Centre - Northern Care Alliance Group in collaboration with Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance
  • Royal Surrey Robotic Surgery - Royal Surrey FT
  • The Cancer Surgical Hub - Royal Marsden FT
Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Award

 

Winner: Medicines Optimisation in Orthopaedic Enhanced Recovery - Northern Devon Healthcare Trust

Highly Commended: A pilot project - Medicines optimisation at transfer of care for care home residents -  Kent Community Health FT

Finalists:

  • Compassionate care: rapid access to medicines at Covid19 end of life - Medicines and Pharmacy Covid19 Cell Northwest Region
  • Hospital Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation – Top 10 medicines - NHS England and NHS Improvement
  • Introduction of a specialist independent prescribing Pharmacists into Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) - Hertfordshire Partnership University FT
  • Medicines Optimisation Clinic - Hertfordshire Partnership University FT
  • Mental Health Pharmacist in a Primary Care Network - Lancashire and South Cumbria FT
  • Perioperative Pharmacy Optimisation Pathway - Royal Marsden FT
Urgent and Emergency Care Initiative of the Year

 

Winner: High Intensity User Service - H4All

Highly Commended: Physician Response Unit: Taking Emergency Medicine into the Community -  Barts Health Trust, London's Air Ambulance Charity, London Ambulance Service Trust

Finalists:

  • The sepsis point of care (SPOC) initiative - Brighton and Sussex University Hospital Trust
  • Integrated Urgent Care Project - West Kent Integrated Care Partnership
  • Virtual Booking for Minor injuries - Partnership of East London Cooperatives
IT & Digital Innovation Award

 

Winner: OneLondon: Implementing a London-wide shared care record - A collaboration of London's 5 STPs/ICSs, 3 AHSNs, London Ambulance Service and Greater London Authority

Highly Commended: A Digital Recovery Platform for Severe Mental Illness -  City and Hackney ICP, North East London CCG, East London FT, The Advocacy Project, Core Sport

Finalists:

  • Ophthalmic Innovation: OpenEyes - Bolton FT
  • 100,000 digital consultations: making life easier for staff and patients during the pandemic - Oxford Health FT
  • Hexitime - the national timebank and skill exchange for improving care - Walsall Healthcare Trust in partnership with Hexitime
  • MSE testing and vaccination service using Shift Partner Covid web-app - Mid and South Essex FT and Shift Partner
  • NHS Digital: The Health and Social Care Network Programme - NHS Digital
  • Sustaining primary care through digital transformation during COVID in Kent and Medway - NHS Kent and Medway CCG on behalf of Kent and Medway System
Digital Clinical Transformation Award

 

Winner: A Digital Recovery Platform for Severe Mental Illness - City and Hackney ICP, North East London CCG, East London FT, The Advocacy Project, Core Sport

Highly Commended: Living well at home with dementia using AI -  South Warwickshire FT

Finalists:

  • COVID Oximetry @home - Frimley Health and Care ICS
  • COVID PatientTRACKER - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire Trust
  • MSK Virtual Consultations in response to Covid-19 - Whittington Health Trust - Musculoskeletal Services
  • RELIEVE IBSD: First UK Interventional Virtual Trial - NIHR Patient Recruitment Centre, Newcastle in collaboration with the Newcastle Research Informatics Team, The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals FT
  • Transforming Ophthalmology: OpenEyes - Bolton FT
  • Virtual Booking for Minor injuries - The Partnership of East London Co-Operatives
Post-Covid Sustainable Transformation Award

 

Winner: Barts Emergency Access Co-ordination Hub (BEACH) - Barts Health Trust - Royal London Hospital

Highly Commended: Compassionate care: rapid access to medicines at Covid19 end of life -  Medicines and Pharmacy Covid19 Cell Northwest Region

Finalists:

  • Beneficial Changes Network - From Covid-19 to a better outcome for all - NHS England and NHS Improvement
  • Introduction of a day case total hip replacement pathway - Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford University Hospitals FT
  • Introduction of Macmillan Community Thoracic Specialist Nurse to improve patient experience and protect from COVID 19 - South Tees Hospitals FT
  • Isolated but not alone: Communication in the time of COVID-19 - Somerset FT
  • Use of IBDoc to provide seamless IBD service during Covid pandemic and wider adoption post-covid - Mid and South Essex FT
  • Utilisation of CPAP by Physiotherapists - Bradford Teaching Hospitals FT
Operations and Performance Initiative of the Year

 

Winner: Form an orderly (digital) queue! EPR Integrated Clinical Prioritisation - Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children FT

Highly Commended: North Tyneside CCG partnership with Livi -  North Tyneside CCG

Finalists:

  • Covid-19 Pandemic NHS and independent treatment centre collaborated orthopaedic Trauma services reconfiguration project - Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust
  • National PROMs Network - National PROMs Network (Northumbria Healthcare FT, The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital FT, Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh FT and other NHS Organisations)
  • PFI Market Testing and Benchmarking – Success through Collaboration - Summerhill Services
  • PPE Push System: Distributing PPE around a 150-mile Trust radius - Northamptonshire Healthcare FT
  • Procurement Operations Team - NHS North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative
  • SNEE ICS - Building our Accord; Collaboration, Adaptability & Resilience - Suffolk and North East Essex ICS
People & Organisational Development Initiative of the Year

 

Winner: The Academy of Surgery - providing an attractive and innovative training platform for Trust Grade Junior Doctors - Surgical Division, Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust

Highly Commended: Hexitime - the national timebank and skill exchange for improving care -  Walsall Healthcare Trust in partnership with Hexitime

Finalists:

  • Board Affiliate Pilot Programme - Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust
  • Four Trust collaboration to transform recruitment - South West London Recruitment Hub
  • Geographical Host Policy - Coventry, Rugby and Warwickshire North CCGs
  • 'In Our Gift' - Major people and organisational development transformational programme - Midlands Partnership FT
  • Staff Experience Programme & Corona Voice - Northumbria Healthcare FT
  • Supporting a culture of staff wellbeing, reflection and growth through the pandemic - Guy's and St Thomas' FT
HSJ Value Pilot Project of the Year

 

Winner: Darzi Seeds of Change Project for the people by the people - Tower Hamlets CCG (EQUIP & Patient and Public Engagement Team), The Barkantine Practice, Tower Hamlets ELFT Recovery College, Well Communities University of East London, NHS England Always Events, Tower Hamlets CVS, Tower Hamlets Council (Public Health), Mind in Tower Hamlets and Newham, Tower Hamlets Health Watch, Darzi Fellowship Programme London South Bank University

Highly Commended: The Little Black Box that made the Biggest Difference -  Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals FT

Finalists:

  • A Picture of Health: determining a hospital’s population health needs - Chelsea and Westminster FT, Imperial College, London
  • Birmingham and Solihull Partnership – Trainee Nursing Associate Programme – Expert by Experience Connector project - Birmingham and Solihull Partnership TNA Programme: Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health FT, University Hospitals Birmingham FT, The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital FT, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s FT, Birmingham Community Healthcare FT
  • Liverpool Integrated Heart Failure Virtual Multispeciality Multidisciplinary Team Meeting Pilot Project - Liverpool University Hospitals FT, Liverpool CCG
  • Living well at home with dementia using AI - South Warwickshire FT
  • Nurse Cadets - Thames Valley - Oxford Health FT, Central and North West London FT, The Hazeley Academy, Milton Keynes University Hospitals FT, MK College, Bucks Healthcare Trust, Bucks College Group
  • Shared Referral Pathway - Mid Yorkshire Hospital Trust, Wakefield CCG, North Kirklees CCG, Wakefield GP Practices and North Kirklees GP Practices
HSJ Value Award of the Year - In association with AdviseInc

 

Winner: Integrated working: A System approach to resetting and delivering Outpatients, Diagnostics and Clinical Pathways in the North Alliance - North Alliance of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough STP - NWAngliaFT, CPFT, Primary Care, PCVS, PHE, CCG

Highly Commended: West Midlands Adult Eating Disorders Provider Collaborative -  Midlands Partnership FT

Finalists:

  • BDP Single Point of Access - BDP (Bollington Disley and Poynton) Care Community
  • Beneficial Changes Network - NHS England and NHS Improvement
  • Clinical Digital Resource Collaborative (CDRC) - Academic Health Science Network - North East and North Cumbria (AHSN NENC) and North of England Commissioning Support Unit (NECS CSU)
  • NHS Digital: The Health and Social Care Network Programme - NHS Digital
  • Operation Shield: Coventry's COVID-19 response to highest risk patients - University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust
  • Project BONES: BHR Orthopaedics NHS Elective Surgery - Barking Havering Redbridge Trust and Practice Plus Group Hospital Ilford