Healthcare IT Award
The wider use of computer technology in the NHS is evident throughout the world, with many countries citing NHS projects as examples of good practice. This award will recognise an organisation that is responsible for implementing a ground breaking IT project that demonstrates clear cost benefits to the wider NHS.
2022 Winner: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - Outpatient Digitisation Project
The impact of COVID has accelerated the need for LTHT’s outpatient strategy to ensure that the right professionals deliver the right treatment at the right time in the right place. Led by Outpatients Clinical Support Unit (CSU), LTHT focussed on digitising appointment interactions for all outpatient specialties across seven hospitals, providing patients with appropriate, timely information about their appointments. The project went live early and is now rolling out across the Trust.
Commended
NHS Shared Business Services / Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust - Robotic Process Automation
Medway NHS Foundation Trust - EPR rollout
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW) - Global Digital Exemplar
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust - Colposcopy Software Implementation
2021 Winner
NHS Arden & GEM CSU - National Immunisation and Vaccination System
Working in close partnership with the national programme team and hospitals designated as vaccination hubs, NHS Arden was able to scope, design and build a bespoke module within the National Immunisation and Vaccination System to capture real time data on vaccine take-up and ensure patients are receiving vaccine doses within specified timeframes. The system was rapidly deployed to the first hospital vaccination hubs in December 2020 and has since been rolled out to mass vaccination centres.
Commended
London Ambulance Service - Electronic Patient Care Record
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board - Eye Care Services
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Bradford Plaster Room
Cambridge University Hospitals - Technology to Help Choose Energy Supply
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - GS1 Implementation
2020 Winner
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Chesterfield Royal Hospitals want to improve their patient’s experience along with utilisation rates for appointments and launched a digital portal; Patient Hub. It can be used on any device and has two-factor security offering patients 24/7 access to their appointment information. Patient Hub went live as the coronavirus lockdown began. The trust used a phased roll-out for the best results and quickly transitioned to 80 per cent non-face-to-face appointments. Patients now click on a button and they are in Attend Anywhere’s video portal.
Commended
Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
NHS Digital
Cardiff & Vale University Health Board
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals
2019 Winner
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust - Digital Nursing Team
The Digital Nursing team was enlisted in 2017 and is now employed on a full‐time basis within the Trust’s ICT team to help pave the way in NUH ambitions to become a ‘paperless hospital’. The team have helped to introduce a whole new generation of digital tools to NUH, starting with the development of digital nursing and midwifery assessments. Working closely with numerous colleagues within ICT, the team developed 17 individual electronic assessments which are completed through ‘Nervecentre’ software, and made readily available to clinical staff.
Commended
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Command Centre
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - eRostering System
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - Patient Comments algorithm
London Ambulance Service - Summary Care Records application (SCRa) pilot
2018 Winner
NHS North of England Commissioning Support
To increase the availability and ease of use of Online Nurse Appointments, North Tyneside CCG engaged NHS North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) to work in collaboration with GP practices to adapt and perfect clinical systems to suit the different types of nurse‐led appointment. Workshops which facilitated practices to establish specific staff roles were well received by attendees. One practice reported that 8 nurse‐led appointments had been booked by patients online per day following the initiative, potentially saving up to 65 hours per year.
Commended
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
AHP Suffolk
2017 Winner
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
East Lancashire Hospitals Trust has worked with technology partners to implement an innovative out-of-hours service using diagnostic-quality video technology to support Cumbria and Lancashire’s Stroke Service. When introduced, the Telestroke Network provided the first UK out-of-hours stroke thrombolysis service, significantly reducing morbidity and mortality rates across the region
Commended
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
NHS Arden & GEM CSU
Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
2016 Winner
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Plymouth University, Royal Cornwall Hospitals and SUDEP Action
There are more than 600,000 people with epilepsy in the UK, and approximately 42 per cent of epilepsy deaths are preventable. EpSMon, collaboratively developed between the trust, Plymouth University, Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust, SUDEP Action and UCL Institute of Neurology, is an evidenced based free app for smartphones and tablets. It works by providing a seizure safety checklist to support people with epilepsy, allowing patients to monitor their risk for free to keep themselves safer. It has already demonstrated improved communication, safety and reduced mortality within patients.
Commended
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Teleswallowing
University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust - My Medical Record
West Green GP Surgery - Reducing antibiotic prescribing
South West London Pathology - Diagnostic Services
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board - Electronic Growth Chart
2015 Winner
Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
The winning hospital's electronic medical records system has revolutionised the way referral paperwork and medical notes are indexed, routed and shared among clinicians and clerical staff. This has boosted efficiency, reduced costs, and ultimately, enhanced patient care.
Commended
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
NHS Northern, Eastern and Western Devon CCG
Leicester City CCG