List of the finalists and judges' comments (cont'd)
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Best use of IT in integrating healthcare and socialcare awards
First place
South and East Belfast Health and Social Services Trust
Streamlining the referral process in health and socialcare
The aim of this project was to set up a single referral point for all
referrals to the Trust (both health- and socialcare), together with a
shared electronic patient record system, which would facilitate
information gathering and sharing across all services. The Trust
established a single point of contact for all Trust referrals and
achieved this through the use of a call management centre and an
electronic person-centred information system. An average of 5000
referrals are now being taken per month by the CMC onto the shared
electronic record system (PARIS).
Judges’ comments:
“Common functionality and transparent communication pathways between
health- and socialcare underpinned the success of this project. The
judges felt that this project was breaking new ground in terms of its
scope and vision and were particularly impressed with the way that the
project teams managed to overcome the professional staff fears over
administration staff recording referral information as well as managing
the challenge of changing long-established working practices.”
Second place
Scottish Borders Council and NHS Borders Partnership
Borders joint ability equipment service project
The innovative part of the project is the role which ICT plays in
delivering the objectives to a sparsely populated, rural community. The
service provides core equipment ordering, dispatch, and stock control
system that is linked to both health and social work units and it offers
advice and information on equipment and services to users, carers and
staff through the use of new technology in remote areas and through a
mobile facility. At the outset of the project 100% of all orders were
received on paper and had to be re-entered by store staff — now over 95%
are received electronically.
Judges’ comments:
“This project clearly established trust and effective joint information
sharing and working between the healthcare and socialcare organisations
with tangible clinical and client benefits.”
Commended
Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust, Wolverhampton City Council, and
Royal Wolverhampton Hospital NHS Trust
Electronic single assessment process (SAP)
The key objective of this project was to develop a secure environment
for electronic sharing of information between health- and socialcare
partners within Wolverhampton. It makes the delivery of care more
person-centred by providing clinicians with reliable and accurate data
at the point of care. The eSAP clinical pathway gives authorised social
service and healthcare workers access to patient data remotely via a
secure Virtual Private Network connection across the Internet. eSAP has
not been fully rolled out and the overall results of the project have
yet to be formally quantified.
Judges’ comments:
“The judges considered that this project was a promising step forward in
promoting co-operation between healthcare and socialcare that merited
encouragement.”
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