NHS Alliance : events

Judges

Description

1. Portfolio Does the PCT have a comprehensive portfolio of re-design activity, eg: • Schemes or projects that have been in place for at least nine of the last twelve months • New and recent schemes • How obstacles have been overcome in developing the schemes, and what those obstacles were 2. Impact The judges will look for evidence of the impact of the projects, eg: • How the scheme fulfils the needs of patients • The number of patients who have experienced it to date • The numbers who are anticipated to benefit annually • The effect of the scheme on hospital admissions and • How the scheme impacts on local financial and human resources • How the scheme fulfils the priorities of local primary care clinicians 3. Innovation and good practice This award will give equal weight to innovation and to building on good practice developed elsewhere. The PCT should demonstrate • To what extent the scheme is innovative • To what extent it builds on good practice developed elsewhere 4. Planning for the future The PCT will need to provide evidence of: • Its plans for roll out and replication of the scheme • The sustainability of the scheme.

Entries

Winner

Name of Entrant: Mr David Adamah
Group Name: Doncaster PCT
Entry Title: Obesity
Link to Entry: SR 22.pdf

Finalist

Name of Entrant: Carole Hill
Group Name: Liverpool PCT
Entry Title: Development of a Paediatric Asthma CAre Pathway and IT Template for Primary Care - A successful collaboration with secondary care
Link to Entry: SR 16(2).pdf

Clinical Engagement

Judges

Dinah Roy

Anne Fairburn

Jenny Sale

Description

Entries should demonstrate that: • A clinical team has been empowered to lead service change within or across an organisation and can demonstrate team working. • Clear improvement in direct or indirect patient outcomes has been achieved. • The service change is directed at increasing efficiency or clinical effectiveness. • There is a strategy to ensure that the change survives beyond those who implement it.

Entries

Winner

Name of Entrant: Dr Andrew Cummin
Group Name:
Entry Title: A story of Clinical Engagement & Team Empowerment
Link to Entry: CE3.pdf

Finalist

Name of Entrant: Dr Richard Price
Group Name:
Entry Title: Creating a Picture of the Future
Link to Entry: CE 9(1).pdf

Public & Patient Involvement

Judges

Brian Fisher

Graham Box

Danny Daniels

Description

The judges will be looking for evidence of the following: 1. Structural • There is a PPI strategy in all directorates of the PCT • Board attention is given regularly to PPI 2. Listening • The PCT uses an innovative approach to gathering local intelligence OR • The PCT uses a variety of means of gathering local intelligence. AND • This intelligence is presented to decision makers such as the Board, PEC 3. Action • This intelligence is acted upon • Demonstrable changes have resulted • These changes are at both Acute Trust and community levels • Robust evaluation is employed

Entries

Winner

Name of Entrant: Mr Mohammed Elsharif
Group Name: Bristol PCT
Entry Title: Bristol Race Equality Health Partnership
Link to Entry: PPI 13.pdf

Finalist

Name of Entrant: Mr Andy Warren
Group Name:
Entry Title: How we have involved the public in Practice Based Commissioning
Link to Entry: PPI 10.pdf

Public Health

Judges

Chris Drinkwater

Tim Crayford

Description

Improving local health in partnership with local authorities This award is looking for good examples of how Directors of Public Health are responding to the challenge of working in partnership with local authorities, and the wider public health workforce. Applicants should focus on a local public health priority and should clearly demonstrate how this has been addressed in partnership with the local authority. They should also demonstrate how the wider health, local authority and voluntary sector workforce has been engaged in delivering this priority and how the public health message has been marketed to the local community. Working in partnership The judges will look for the following: 1. Evidence of a local needs assessment and of clearly identified priorities 2. Evidence of how one of the identified priorities is being addressed through strategic plans and other approaches 3. Evidence that a plausible processes has been put in place and that outputs and clear intermediate and long-term outcomes have been agreed 4. Evidence that the chosen priority contributes to the Local Area Agreement Outcomes

Entries

Winner

Name of Entrant: Ms Linda Henry
Group Name: North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus
Entry Title: Early Presentation of Cancer Programme
Link to Entry: PH 10.pdf

Finalist

Name of Entrant: Ms Carole Hill
Group Name: Liverpool PCT
Entry Title: D-Myst (Direct Movement by the Youth SmokeFree Team)
Link to Entry: PH 13.pdf

Integrated and Complementary Healthcare

Judges

Carol Horner

Mike O'Farrell

Description

1. Information and planning The judges will consider how information about complementary therapies is accessed and shared, and how that informs the planning process, eg: • What information does the PCT hold or can access about the evidence for named therapies such as osteopathy, acupuncture, aromatherapy, chiropractic, hypnotherapy, osteopathy and others? • What information does the PCT hold or can access about: - local complementary practitioners? - the provision of (or referrals for) complementary therapies by local clinicians to their patients? • How is this information shared: - With PCT staff involved in planning or delivering services? - With PEC members and clinical leads? - With local clinicians? • What information is provided to the local population and how is it distributed? • Does the PCT have an action plan for the provision of one or more therapies, taking into account issues such as access and evidence? 2. Provision and access • Has the PCT provided access with clear guidelines for at least two therapies? • Is access provided to all patients within the PCT for at least one therapy? • Does the PCT fund 100% of the costs of complementary therapies or does it ask for a contribution from the patient? 3. Evaluation • How can the PCT demonstrate that its provision of complementary therapies meets patient needs and is cost effective? • Has the PCT undertaken any research into the efficacy, safety or cost of a complementary health project?

Entries

Winner

Name of Entrant: Dr Michael Cannell
Group Name: STAHCOM
Entry Title: Commissioning a local Acupuncture service as part of the St Albans & Harpenden PBC based Musculoskeletal 'CATS' service
Link to Entry: IC 1.pdf

Clinical Governance

Judges

Dennis Cox

Ruth Chambers

Description

The judges will be looking for specific evidence of some or all of the following: 1. Structural • The trust or practice will have a clinical governance strategy with an operational plan that has been evolved by PCT or practice management with overt staff and patient input. • There is effective leadership in relation to clinical governance at all levels in the trust / practice. • There is an effective system for communicating learning lessons to the trust or practice; in relation to which changes have been made. • There is a seamless link between appraisal, HR policies and practices, education and training (such as mandatory training), clinical effectiveness and other components of clinical governance. 2. Impact • There are concrete and visible changes of behaviour resulting from clinical governance related work programmes, that have led to improvements to patient care and / or effective working. • Effective teamworking has been a driver in there being positive changes or continual improvement in the way that services are delivered. • The application of clinical governance has led to consistently good practice in primary care, across healthcare settings e.g. more than one independent contractor setting, or between general medical practice and school health etc. 3. Innovation and good practice • The trust or practice has involved dentists, pharmacists and / or optometrists in implementing clinical governance along with general medical practitioners. • The trust or practice has evaluated their innovative developments to check that risks to patient safety are minimised and patient centred care is enhanced. • Innovative developments that generate affordable patient benefits are sustained.

Entries

Winner

Name of Entrant: Ms Elizabeth Morgan
Group Name: Mastercall out of hours Service
Entry Title: Evolving Clinical Governance within the Progressive Learning
Link to Entry: CG 2.pdf

Finalist

Name of Entrant: Alan Franey
Group Name: Barndoc
Entry Title: Child Protection Procedures
Link to Entry: CG1.pdf

Practice Management: Innovation and Good Practice

Judges

Wendy Evans

Janine Payne

Description

Innovation and good practice This award will give equal weight to innovation and to building on existing good practice. Managers should demonstrate: 1. To what extent the work carried out in your practice is innovative 2. To what extent it builds on existing good practice. Impact The judges will look for evidence of the impact of the innovation you have introduced, for example: 1. How it fulfils the needs of patients and helps to develop improved services 2. How it helps the development of practice management 3. How it helps to support and assist with the development of practice management colleagues 4. How it has helped to deliver positive changes or continual improvement in the way that services are delivered. Patient outcomes 1. Entrants should be able to demonstrate that clear improvement in direct or indirect patient outcomes has been achieved. 2. Describe what changes have resulted 3. Outline how affordable patient benefits are sustained.

Entries

Winner

Name of Entrant: Ms Lindsay Sands
Group Name: clinical Outreach Team, Derbyshire County PCT
Entry Title: Young People's One Stop Sexual Health Service
Link to Entry: PM 3.pdf

Finalist

Name of Entrant: Dr Shikha Pitalia
Group Name: SSP Health
Entry Title: Improving Patient Access - Mobile Technology with a Traditional Twist
Link to Entry: PM1.pdf

Practice Based Commissioning

Judges

David Jenner

Julie Wood

Description

Project that best displays the following attributes: Joint working between PCT and local practices. Addreses the key issue of acheiving financial balance. Defines credible and tangible incentives for practices. Genuinely moves care from hospitals to the community Involves local patients in any service redesign proposals

Entries

Winner