List of the winners and the judges' comments (cont'd)
Categories:
Best publicly accessible health-related information
system awards
First place
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Restorative Dentistry Oncology Clinic initiative: mouth cancer website
and online support group
The Restorative Dentistry Oncology Clinic website
www.rdoc.org.uk was
developed to provide easy access to information on mouth cancers for
patients and dentists, and to provide a 24-hour online support group. A
key objective of this project was to ensure that the website met the
aims of the NHS cancer information strategy.
Judges’ comments
“The judging panel was greatly impressed by the vision and
implementation skills necessary to get this project off the ground. This
project provides a useful service for patients and healthcare
professionals seeking information or advice on neck and head cancer and
the panel trusts that Dr Joshi will gain financial support to continue
this valuable support for patients with cancers of the head and neck in
the future.”
Commended
Glasgow City Council
Access Glasgow partnership — public access kiosk project
Access Glasgow partnership is Glasgow City Council’s vision to improve
public services by harnessing information and communication technologies
and working in partnership with other agencies and parties in and around
Glasgow. One of the components of this program is to make information
and services available electronically via a range of access channels
including public access kiosks. All the kiosks are connected to a remote
management provider via high-speed broadband lines and each partner is
responsible for hosting and maintaining their own particular areas of
content. All pages available on the kiosks have been designed to
specific guidelines in order to provide a consistent look and feel
across all areas and make the system as easy to use within a touchscreen
environment as possible. Several areas of information, including general
health information are available in the following foreign languages;
Urdu, Punjabi, Cantonese, Arabic, Turkish and Somali.
Judges’ comments:
“At this early stage, the wide scope of the project, and the lack as yet
of effectiveness evidence, meant that the project scored low in terms of
results — however, the judging panel admired the way that this team
approached the problem of making information and services available to a
growing cosmopolitan healthcare community and felt that the project must
be commended for the work that this pilot project has done so far.”
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