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HITEA
2001 winners
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HITEA 2001 winners of
Best use of IT in primary and community care
"The
recognition has helped us extend the partnership
into new areas of collaborative working. The staff are
constantly reminded that they are part of something
bigger, and now look to the future knowing that there are
more exciting changes to come. GPs recognise that
we are committed to improving the way that we all
see and treat patients.
At
the trust, the award confirmed that the risks in terms of
direction and technology were worth taking and the results
are now considered mainstream. It confirms the department’s
thoughts that the trust and its partners are innovators
and are collectively at the leading edge of
modernisation. It also provides the inspiration
to continue with our work and achieve the same recognition
in the future!”
Doug
Northwood, Booked Admissions Project Manager
Lewisham
Hospital NHS Trust |
Photograph
shows Professor Alastair Bellingham CBE and Charles Ward
with the winners of the HITEA 2001 Best use of IT in
primary and community care award
(left to right):
Dr Arum Gupta, General Practitioner, South Lewisham
Health Centre; Adrian Laning,
IT Network Manager, Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust;
Charles Ward, Marketing Director, CSSA;
David Shaw, Practice Manager, South Lewisham Health
Centre; Doug Northwood, Booked Admissions
Project Manager, Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust;
Peter Walsh, Director of Service Agreements and
Information, Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust;
Luke Stickings, New Business Manager, CSS;
and Professor Alastair Bellingham CBE, Chairman of the
NHS Information Authority. |
Press release
NHS
organisations receive awards for their effective use of
‘bricks and clicks’ technology
19
March 2001. Today, 41 healthcare professionals received awards
from Professor Alastair Bellingham CBE, Chairman of the NHS
Information Authority, at HC2001, Harrogate, UK.
“The
judging panel was delighted to see the many new projects being
developed and encouraged to see professionals from the health
community and industry working together so seemlessly. The
winning projects are a fine example of how existing and
web-based technology is being used to make information more
readily available to patients and those working in the health
service”, said John Higgins, Director General, CSSA and
Chairman of the Healthcare IT Effectiveness Awards.
The Healthcare IT Effectiveness Awards recognises and rewards
the individuals who are rising to the challenge of harnessing
the information and communication revolution to improve the
delivery of patient care.
Notes for editors
1.
Awarding
consortium
Background information
The Healthcare IT Effectiveness Awards result from a collaboration
of five healthcare IT organisations and bodies. The NHS Executive,
the NHS Information Authority, the Computing Services and Software
Association’s Healthcare and Primary Healthcare Groups, the
British Computer Society’s Health Informatics Committee and the British
Journal of Healthcare Computing and Information Management.
The
members of the Awarding Consortium together with three key
suppliers of the ICT industry sponsor and contribute their time to
the co-ordination and organisation of this worthwhile event.
2.
Comments
from some of the sponsors
BT
Health
The vision of an electronic NHS is critically dependent on high
quality infrastructure, delivering end-to-end performance, from
executive desktop to nurse palmtop. Delivery and management of
this infrastructure will be BT's key role over the next decade as
the NHS embraces a new way of working. But however good our
infrastructure, the benefits it can bring will not be realised
unless all in the NHS become truly excellent at using IT. BT is
committed to helping the NHS succeed in this respect. We are
therefore delighted to be associated, for our second year, with
the Healthcare IT Effectiveness Awards.
“It's what you do with IT that counts.”
said Peter Dyke, Head
of Market Development, BT Health
McKessonHBOC
McKessonHBOC is a Fortune 40 corporation and the world’s largest
pharmaceutical supply management and healthcare IT company.
McKessonHBOC (UK) is the largest provider of IT services to
the UK healthcare market. It has been operating here since 1990
and delivers IT solutions to both the public and private
healthcare sectors. McKessonHBOC’s
applications, products and services are used by more than 460 NHS
organisations.
The company has consistently sponsored the Healthcare IT
Effectiveness Awards since their inception.
“As an NHS information management and technology
provider, this is the major opportunity we have each year to
formally acknowledge some of the outstanding achievements being
made in the marketplace.” said McKessonHBOC’s Managing
Director, Mike Kingswood.
Torex Health
"Torex Health is pleased to support the 2001 Healthcare IT
Effectiveness Awards which are designed to recognise innovation
and excellence in healthcare information management.
Torex
Health offers a modern solution portfolio to help the NHS deliver
the requirements of Information
for Health. The
Torex client base includes more than 2500 GP practices, 140 acute,
community and mental health trusts, the company has a clear
strategy to provide integrated solutions across these sectors.
Torex's electronic patient record (EPR) is based upon the
provision of patient-focused clinical solutions, with specific
emphasis on delivering clinical functionality at the
point-of-care", said Mark Stevens, Sales Director, Torex
Health.
3.
List
of the finalists and judges comments
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Best example of technological innovation
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First place
Green
Park Healthcare Trust
Regional disablement services — improving the wheelchair
service
A
clear winner, Green Park Healthcare demonstrated considerable
improvement for the benefit of patients and clients with their
wheelchair project. Using web database technology the system
enables community staff all over Northern Ireland to send
prescriptions for wheelchairs to the Regional Disablement Services
centre in Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast. The system provides
feedback on progress to senior management, administrative and
clinical staff at the centre and professionals working within the
community. It enables staff at all levels to have better access to
the information they require. In real terms the amount of time to
process prescriptions has decreased due to the introduction of the
system.
The
judges were impressed by the cultural change taken on by all staff
in their adoption of this new way of working, moving away from a
paper based filing system to using the system as the primary
source of information for prescription forms.
Highly commended
Alpha Bravo Charlie Limited, Gpass, Townhead Surgery
m–care: mobile access to patient information at the point of
care
The
judges commended Townhead Surgery, Gpass and The Scottish
Executive Health Department for implementing their m-care project,
which ensures that healthcare professionals wherever they are can
use WAP mobile phones to access relevant healthcare information
and patient records. This project proves that simple, off the
shelf equipment can provide remote access to necessary information
in a quick and effective manor.
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Best publicly accessible health-related information
system
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Highly commended
Moorfields Eye Hospital
The
ophthalmic research network
The
judges highly commended Moorfields for developing an important
electronic library for eye healthcare, which acts as a knowledge
centre for those making decisions about eye healthcare provision.
The knowledge base supports best practice guidelines as well as
providing continuous and up to date information.
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Best use of IT in primary and community care
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First
place
Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust
Lewisham intranet booking and referral application
Lewisham
Hospital has implemented an intranet booking and referral
application system. The judges particularly commended the buy-in
they got from GP’s and their staff to ensure the success of
their systems adoption. Web based it is accessed via the NHSnet
and for the first time allows appointment booking 24 hours a day,
seven days a week. The judging panel recognised that historically
GP’s referral to outpatient departments is a cumbersome and
resource hungry process. Lewisham Hospital receives thousands of
referrals each year. In enabling GP’s to refer directly online
from the surgery, the efficiency of the referral process has
dramatically improved in Lewisham.
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Best use of IT in secondary care
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First
place
Stockport NHS Trust
Mail
Storm project
Stockport
implemented Mail Storm to standardise and ensure uniformity in the
way that clinical correspondence is created and stored. The judges
awarded first place to Stockport to highlight the importance in
changing traditional NHS working methods in this area so that
correspondence can be uniquely identified and retrieved with
greater efficiency. There are 60 medical secretaries using Mail
Storm to create clinical correspondence, 750 documents per day are
being produced which equates to 16 250 documents per month. The
time saved by automating the manufacturing process for documents
is equal to two minutes per document. With a production of 16 250
documents per month, that’s 542 hours.
Highly commended
King’s Lynn and Wisbech Hospitals NHS Trust
A
web-based cancer referral project for West Norfolk
The
judging panel commend Kings Lynn and Wisbech for setting a process
in motion to meet the high standard set in place by the Government
in March 2000 with their referral guidelines for suspected cancer
paper. The Trust delivered a web-based referral system which is
clear, readily accessible, very easy to use, monitor and audit,
all with a focus on cost. The judges were also impressed by the
commitment of the Trust to build on this system and put in motion
development plans.
Highly commended
North Manchester Healthcare NHS Trust
The
effective use of email
The
judges commended North Manchester for their entry on effective use
of email to develop and ensure best practice processes throughout
the Trust. Specifically the judges were impressed in North
Manchester’s utilisation of an investment already made in an
email infrastructure which helps streamline processes in the
department. Specifically the use of electronic schedulers to
co-ordinate department activity, providing and sharing information
throughout the organisation, using the public folders mechanism,
supporting the referral process of patients to departments,
enhancing the internal consultant to consultant referral process.
In
1998 the Trust embarked on a programme of modernising technology
in clinical areas. The Trust now boasts over 750 live email
accounts that cover approximately 80% of the Trust’s staff.
4.
Case-history presentations from the
finalists receiving first place awards
The finalists receiving first place awards are presenting their
projects at the Ripley Suite, The Moat House Hotel at 15.00–16.00
on Monday 19 March 2001.
5.
Photographs of finalists
Photographs, available free of charge, of the finalists can be
obtained from the official photographers. They are also published
on the photographers’ website.
Lamplight
Photographic Services
8 Cleveland Grove, WAKEFIELD WF2 8LD
Contact: Mr Steve Anstey Tel:
01924 379573 Fax:
01924 397573
Mobile: 07774 151130 Website:
www.lamplight2.co.uk
6.
Contact
details
Press are invited to interview the finalists at HC2001,
alternatively contact the CSSA or BJHC Limited.
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