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3. List of the finalists and
judges' comments
Best example of
technological innovation awards
First Place: Wirral Hospital NHS
Trust
The introduction of an automated
dispensing machine
Wirral Hospital NHS Trust
demonstrated considerable improvements in patient care, through
this well-conceived and well-managed project. Whilst there
has already been extensive use of automation in pharmacies across
the US, it is still a relatively new and innovative idea within
the UK. The introduction of this automated dispensing system, only
the second in this country, has facilitated the release of staff
to other duties at ward level, giving them opportunity to make
better use of their clinical skills. An additional benefit
was the significant reduction of dispensing errors from 15.7 per
100 000 to 7.7 per 100 000 items dispensed.
Second Place: City Hospital NHS
Trust
Clinicians' homepage
The high level of enthusiasm
illustrated within this project was highly commended by the
judges. In recognising the need to encourage doctors to use IT,
this teaching hospital took the time to listen to their
clinicians' needs. Through the use of standard browser-based
technology the trust worked with their inhouse teams and systems
developers to build a seamless IT system. The new system has
resulted in a number of benefits such as communication with other
staff through email and intranet facilities. Vital patient
information is also available to support clinicians in carrying
out their work and there is good availability of corporate data.
Third Place: National Blood
Service
Blood stocks management scheme
The blood stocks management scheme
monitors blood stocks and wastage across the blood supply chain.
This unique system is the first to be used by the National Blood
Service and the hospitals it supplies. Based on an existing
IT system, thereby incurring no external costs, the new system
went live in April 2001. Six months into the scheme 153 hospitals
were registered accounting for 66% of the red cells issued by the
National Blood Service. The judges highly commend the measurable
and quantifiable achievements documented: improved administration;
reduced wastage; and the ironing out of inefficiencies in the
supply chain.
Best publicly
accessible health-related information system awards
First Place:
Rotherham Road Medical Centre
MEDCAL community heart disease
tutor
The judges highly commended the
impact this system has had on patient care, making it a clear
winner. This engaging and patient-centred system opens up the
possibility of making a large advance in heart-disease prevention,
despite the lack of professional resource in the NHS.
Commended: DIPEx – Database of
Individual Patient's Experiences
Whose illness is it anyway?
DIPEx aims to promote more balanced
encounters between patients and healthcare professionals by
providing access to patients' perspectives. It is a 24-hour
support group for anyone whose life is touched by an illness.
Developed by two doctors with personal experiences of illness,
this project was commended by the panel for its innovation. Still
in its early stages with only two models launched by July 2001,
the judges eagerly await new results and encourage an entry again
next year.
Best use of IT in
any healthcare sector awards
First Place: Sheffield Teaching
Hospitals NHS Trust
Innovative approaches to engage
senior clinicians in the use of electronic information systems
Getting mainstream senior
clinicians to actually use the electronic information systems
routinely in practice is a major problem in acute hospitals. This
project commendably demonstrates how the use of IT by consultants
can provide the catalyst for change in EPR development —
nurturing clinical leadership and involvement. Despite the
data-capture encroachments on individual consultants' time, they
were motivated by the prospect of having timely, complete and
accurate information relevant to their clinical practice as a
by-product. By facilitating a shared-learning opportunity for
consultants that would promote their involvement in the future
development of electronic patient records, the team at Sheffield
Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have encouraged 22 consultants and
ten specialist registrars to routinely use the systems in
place. The project originally started with three
representative consultants.
Second Place: Doncaster and
South Humber Healthcare NHS Trust
Doncaster Health and Social Care
Community — electronic healthcare record
The provision of an integrated
mental health service requires access to patient/client
information that has to be sourced from a number of disparate
healthcare systems. Ideally this information needs to be available
in a complete form to properly support care decisions, many of
which are taken at short notice by carers not directly involved
with the particular client. The judges this year highly commend
Doncaster and South Humber Healthcare NHS Trust for what they call
"a brilliant proposal". This well-conceived and
implemented project enables people in different service sectors
and professions to work well and efficiently together. This EHR
allows mental health professionals working within the community to
make timely and informed decisions on patient/client issues that
otherwise wouldn’t have been possible, 24 hours a day seven days
a week, from any terminal connected to the NHSnet.
Third Place: Primary Care
Pharmacy
Pharmaceutical care support
services
The clinical and financial
consequences of poor hypertension control consume vast quantities
of healthcare and social service resources as well as having
profound effects on patients' lives. This project shows how, when
working together with patients, practices and primary care
organisations, a service to improve the assessment and monitoring
of hypertension and control of patients' medication can be
provided. The judges commend this well-conceived project for its
enormous potential and eagerly await to see it implemented across
a wider region.
Best use of IT in
the Health Service award
First Place: Wirral
Hospital NHS Trust
Introduction of automated
dispensing machine
The judges of this award scheme
look for systems or processes that above everything else help
everyone to do their jobs better, in turn improving patient care,
and are particularly interested in receiving entries that show
measurable and clear outcomes.
Due to the quantitative figures
demonstrated in their project and the documented and clear benefit
to patients, Wirral Hospital NHS Trust were unanimously voted as
this year's overall winners.
This team also won first place for
technological innovation.
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