Triple joy for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
SHEFFIELD Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has won a hat-trick of awards at one of the most prestigious awards in British healthcare.
The Trust – which was up for seven awards – scooped the top awards in the Cancer Care, Diabetes Care and Changing Culture at the Patient Safety and Care Awards.
Held jointly by the Health Service Journal and the Nursing Times, the Patient Safety and Care Awards celebrate excellent, safe and innovative care throughout the health service.
The successful teams were: the Sheffield cancer survivorship and late effects service: a multi-professional approach to care, the Sheffield diabetes footcare team and the Sheffield Microsystem Coaching Academy.
The Sheffield cancer survivorship and late effects service is a pioneering and internationally renowned service providing care for cancer survivors in an era of improving survival rates in the months, years and decades after treatment.
Their work was singled out by the judges for “offering a compelling service that shows the way for future cancer care”, and with new projections highlighting that one in two people will get cancer in their lifetime by 2020, but almost four in ten will not die from the disease, anticipating and monitoring for possible problems is vital.
The Sheffield diabetes footcare team, based at the Northern General Hospital, were also congratulated for delivering “huge results in a short space of time”.
New measures introduced by the team have led to a dramatic decrease in the number of diabetes-related amputations in Sheffield at a time when national amputation rates have remained static. Innovations include a diabetes foot hotline, a restructured footcare pathway to enable rapid access to the specialist team and improved training for GPs and other healthcare professionals.
The Sheffield Microsystems Coaching Academy – which is the first of its kind in Europe – is training a group of microsystem coaches who aim to tip the culture of the healthcare system to one in which improving safety and quality is normal work.
The judges said the Sheffield Microsystems Coaching Academy “had the wow factor and potentially has impact across a whole system and the broader NHS. It’s investment in staff to give them expertise and training shows great results and a visible change in culture.”
The team’s work has already seen reduced waiting times for foot and ankle surgery, a decrease in infectious diseases and more patients attending hospital appointments, which otherwise can cause significant delays in patient pathway, at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Sir Andrew Cash, chief executive for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: “Patients are our top priority, so I’m delighted that our hard work in developing innovative approaches to care and treatment has been recognised. I would like to congratulate all our teams for the vital and inspirational contribution they are making towards improving patient care, and I hope that in winning these awards their successes can help others learn and share best practice.”
Over 1,000 senior healthcare managers, directors and practitioners gathered at the ceremony, which took place at Grosvenor House, Park Lane London on 15 July 2014.
Jenni Middleton, Editor, Nursing Times said: “Those organisations shortlisted here tonight have listened to the feedback of service users and patients, thought about where they could make improvements that will have dramatic benefits to patient outcomes, and transformed the way they deliver care. But what separates them from their peers is that they have done so with the involvement of every single member of the team.”
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Photos: The teams from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust pick up their awards.
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