Awarded to NHS organisations who have made strides to improve to the experience and overall care of its patients.

2019 Winner

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust / Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership - Oxford Safe Haven

The Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership (OHMP) is six local mental health organisations from the NHS and the charity sector: Connection Floating Support, Elmore Community Services, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxfordshire Mind, Response and Restore. OMHP supports more than 6,000 people in the county each year through its recovery programme. The Partnership has created a number of schemes which are benefitting the lives of people living with mental ill health. These include Oxford Safe Haven which offers residents over 18 who are experiencing a mental health crisis out of hours crisis support, physical activity, help with employment for people who have experience psychosis and advice on benefits.
 

Commended

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust - A&E Mental Health project
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust: the Wellbeing Matters service
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Clinical Psychology Cancer Service

2018 Winner

Hertfordshire Partnership University Foundation NHS Trust

HPFT drama therapist Gerald Maiello created ‘May Contain Nuts’, which is made up of service users who’ve completed their therapy provided by HPFT, but wish to continue using drama to understand their own experiences, as well as to spread awareness about mental illness and treatment. Based in Watford, the company offers thought‐provoking workshops and productions for schools, universities and other organisations. Themes explore sensitive and often painful subjects including self‐harm, what it’s like to live with suicidal thoughts and various personality disorders which are inspired by their real‐life experiences. The project has been supported by the University of Hertfordshire, Roehampton University and actor, theatre director, and playwright Sir Mark Rylance.
 

Commended

NHS Mid Essex CCG
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT)
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

2017 Winner

Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust leads a pioneering five-year programme to tackling the poor physical health of people with severe mental health conditions. Physical Health Skills Passports document the specific training the Trust’s nurses now undergo in assessing and treating conditions such as diabetes and lung disease - significantly more prevalent in serious mental health conditions. 18 specific improvement outcomes are targeted.
 

Commended

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust

2016 Winner

Office of London CCGs

The EIP London Programme aimed to prepare Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) teams and CCGs for the new standard introduced on 1 April 2016, and to ensure that more than 50 per cent of people across London are commencing NICE-concordant treatment within two weeks of referral. The success of the programme required frontline staff and senior level buy in. EI teams are reporting higher numbers of referrals and investment into EI teams has grown across London.

Commended

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - South West Zero Suicide Collaborative
Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group - Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership (OMHP)
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - Mind Matters
Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - Suicide prevention
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust - First Response service

2015 Winner

NHS Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group

The winner developed a 'Street Triage' pilot last year that sees mental health professionals work with the police, sharing relevant information which helped to advert a person's attempt to end their own life on nine occasions and was responsible for savings in excess of £130,000.

Commended

NHS Northern, Eastern and Western Devon CCG
Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust