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14 North Central London initiatives shortlisted for this year’s HSJ Patient Safety Awards

North Central London ICB is proud to see so many projects and initiatives shortlisted across 11 different categories from across the NCL system.

Four initiatives have direct ICB involvement. They include optimising diabetes care, designing simulation training to support and manage deteriorating patients, creating a new single point of access for eyecare referrals to bypass A&E, and our health and wellbeing bus aimed at social care staff. These projects demonstrate how integrated, system working helps drive improvements in population health and patient safety. A further 10 provider-led projects where shortlisted across the NCL footprint. See the full list below.

Chris Caldwell, NCL ICB Chief Nursing Officer and patient safety lead commended the shortlisted teams: “It is incredibly heartening to see so many impactful projects across North Central London. It is s recognition not only of how our system is prioritising patient safety, but also of how well it is embracing technology, maximising training opportunities and recognising how critical a fit and well workforce is to patient safety.”

See the full list of shortlisted projects below.

 

Primary Care Initiative of the Year  

Optimising Type 2 Diabetes Care with Continuous Glucose Monitoring as an Educational Tool and Lifestyle Interventions to Reduce Medication Dependence: A Pilot Study in North Central London ICB

 

Deteriorating Patients and Rapid Response Initiative of the Year  

NCL Imaging Academy – Clinical Simulation Training to Support and Manage a Deteriorating Patient in Both the Acute and CDC Clinical Settings

 

Developing a Positive Safety Culture Award  

Central North West London FT – Building Bridges of Safety: Cultivating a Safe, Compassionate, Accountable, Reflective and Fair Culture

 

Best Use of Integrated Care and Partnership Working in Patient Safety Award  

Moorfields Eye Hospital FT, Royal Free Hospital, North Central London ICB, NHSE, LOCSU et al. – Single Point of Access

 

Community Care Initiative of the Year  

Central North West London FT – ICE HUB & Pathway 2 Standardisation (D2A)

 

Community Care Initiative of the Year  

University College Hospitals London FT and Central North West London FT – Disposable Elastomeric Pumps to expedite Discharge of Palliative and End of Life Patients

 

Improving Health Outcomes for Minority Ethnic Communities  

Central London Community Healthcare Trust – Post COVID Animation Project

 

Improving Medicines Safety Award  

Central London Community Healthcare Trust – Improving the use of medications through specialist health inequalities pharmacists

 

Mental Health Safety Improvement Award  

Central North West London FT – Reducing Restrictive Practice – A Whole Team Approach

 

Patient Safety Education and Training Award  

NCL Imaging Academy – Clinical Simulation Training to Support and Manage a Deteriorating Patient in Both the Acute and CDC Clinical Settings

 

Staff Wellbeing Initiative of the Year  

Central North West London FT – ’Carers at Work’ staff network

 

Staff Wellbeing Initiative of the Year  

Central North West London FT – New Starter Roadmap

 

Staff Wellbeing Initiative of the Year  

North Central London ICB in partnerships with, NCL Training Hubs and North London Councils – Health and Well-being Bus

 

Virtual or Remote Care Initiative of the Year  

Moorfields Eye Hospital FT – Medical Retina Digital Clinics

 

Best Use of Integrated Care and Partnership Working in Patient Safety Award  

South London Mental Health and Community Partnership and North London Mental Health Partnership – Multi-partner pan-London NHS Mental Health Clinical Advice Line for Police Officers