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North West NHS Innovation Awards – Special Edition 2006
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Welcome to this special
edition of TrusTECH® News.
Celebrating the fourth annual
innovation competition
managed by TrusTECH, the
2006 awards ceremony
promised to be a special
celebration for this year’s
winners.
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Here, TrusTECH announces
the 2006 award winners
and shares with you, for the
first time, their thoughts on
receiving the awards.
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With 80 entries, from people
representing 40 organisations
and a diverse range of
occupations, the competition
affirmed the enthusiasm of
staff to build on the already
impressive NHS innovation
pipeline and improve patient
care.
Sub-division of 2006 Competition Entrants
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Academic
Audiologist
Clinical Scientist
Community Worker
Consultant/Doctor
Dietician
Health Promotion Specialist
Information Manager
Midwife
Modern Matron
Multi-disciplinary Team
Nurse
Nurse Consultant
Nurse Lead
Nurse Specialist
Occupational Health Specialist
Optometrist
Paramedic
Pharmaceutical Professions
Physiologist
Physiotherapist
Psychologist
Radiographer
Risk Manager
Service Improvement Specialist
Speech and Language Therapist
The largest occupational group to enter the 2006 North West NHS Innovation Awards
was nursing professionals (Modern Matrons, Nurses, Nurse Consultants, Nurse Leads
and Nurse Specialists; 19% of entries), closely followed by the Multi-disiplinary team
(16% of entries) and the Consultant/Doctor (13% of entries) groups.
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North West NHS Innovation Awards 2006 –
Introducing the Winners
The ceremony also featured a film
showing some of the NHS innovations that TrusTECH has
managed and an update from Sarah
Roberts (Acute Stroke Unit Manager,
Salford Royal Hospitals NHS Trust)
– last year’s first prize winner in the
Service Innovation Category – on the
progress of her team’s post-stroke
expediting aspirin service. “The award that we received last
year has helped us to extend the
role of the nurse. What I’d say to
the finalists of this year is ‘good
luck’. Anyone who is there is
successful because they’ve shown
that they’ve got an innovation in
place and it shows that they’re
striving for best practice”
– Sarah Roberts, Acute Stroke
Unit Manager, Salford Royal
Hospitals NHS Trust.
With a large number of highly innovative entries, selecting the finalists for this year’s competition
was not an easy task and, after careful consideration, 12 finalists
were selected by the judges to attend
the awards ceremony. Many thanks to, MC for the evening,
Dr Lawrence Cotter (Consultant
Cardiologist, Central Manchester and
Manchester Children’s University
Hospitals NHS Trust) and Dr Maire
Smith (National Director of
Technology and Product Innovation,
Department of Health) for presenting
the awards.
Some of the award finalists
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The North West NHS Innovation
Awards 2006 culminated with a ceremony on 6 July at the Lowry
(Salford Quays, Manchester) which
attracted 75 people representing 31 organisations.
Delegates waited with anticipation to
find out who had won and welcomed
the key note presentation from Dr Daniel Brison (Co-director of the
North West Stem Cell Centre). His
presentation reinforced the pioneering
nature of the NHS by explaining the
eagerly awaited contribution that the
newly established North West Stem Cell Centre will make in supporting future
developments in
healthcare.
A demonstration by Mr Don Hammond (TrusTECH Chairman)
of just one of TrusTECH’s success
stories – the Rhinoplasty Model – brought home the fundamental importance of innovation in improving patient care. “With increasing challenges
(greater patient expectations, the
drive of new technology, etc.) there
is always a need for innovation
in healthcare”
Don Hammond
(TrusTECH Chairman)
– Mr Don Hammond,
TrusTECH Chairman.
Dr Daniel Brison, Co-director of the North West Stem Cell Centre
Dr Lawrence Co
Manchester Ch tter, Consultant Cardiologis
ildren’s Universi
t, Central Manch
ty Hospitals NH
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Read on to find out more about the finalist entries and who won the North West NHS Innovations Awards 2006…
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linary team, Chris Green
(Director of
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used routinely in
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patients and direct the
m towards the most
effective clinical manag
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(Director of the NHS
Newborn Hearing Screen
ing Programme)
explained that, “one-in
-five adults in the
UK suffer from heari
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intervention (before
the age of 75) is
very cost effective”.
HearScreen is an easy-t
o-use, hand-held
and battery operated dev
ice that could help
reduce waiting lists and
improve patients’ qualit
y of life.
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winning second prize wil
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Dr Burra Murthy and
Steve Lake
Sam Williams, Chris Gre
(representing the Cou en, Tony Henderson, Joanne Clubbe and
ntess of Chester Hos
pital NHS Foundation Don Hughes
Conwy and Denbigh
Trust, Medi 365 and
shire NHS Trust)
HearScreen specifically
for primary care users and help to secure
financial investment.
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Professor Adrian Dav
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to be suspended
from a variety of points. Paramedic crews often
encounter
emergency situations wh
ere patients are trapped
and require
fluids (e.g. road traffic
collisions).
Paramedics sometimes
find themselves acting
as ‘human drip
stands’ – holding the flu
id bag to enable a gravity
flow through
the giving set. By carryin
g this simple, cheap and
adaptable
device, paramedic resou
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provide adequate patien
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(Innovation Unit
Manager, TrusTECH)
and Professor
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Health Website (www.dh.gov.
Chronic Pain. Department of
July 2006).
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and Chlamydia
Dual Screening for Gonorrhoea e Trust
North Liverpool Primary Car
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Joint first prize winner, Sara Lavelle (Chl
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Sue McVicker, Steve Scragg, Sara
North Liverpool PCT and Aintre
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University Hospitals NHS Found
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Central Manchester an
NHS Trust
University Hospitals
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cent of children
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around 1000 live births
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with DS have hearing defi
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difficulties and
fully understanding the
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; accessed 21 July 2006).
by email, to avoid excess
Organization Website. (www.who.int
Clocking on to Men’s
Health
South Sefton Primary
Care Trust and Southp
ort
and Formby Primary
Care Trust
As
highlighted recently by
the Nursing Times, it is
well recognised
that, ‘historically men’s
health has compared bad
ly to that of
women’.1 This service,
initiated by Jo McCullag
h (Health Promotion
Specialist) and Gareth Lew
is (Men’s Health Nurse),
encourages
NHS organisations, privat
e businesses and local
men themselves
to work together and sup
port the Government’s
plan2 to improve
men’s health.
Through a range of act
ivities (workshops, health
screening, clinical
consultations, health pro
motion campaigns, etc
.) available at different venues (e.g. wo
rkplaces, leisure centre
s, shops), Clocking
on to Men’s Health aim
s to improve key lifesty
le behaviours (e.g. diet, physical activit
y, smoking cessation).
1. Beckford-Ball J (2006
) New Initiatives to Address the Health
care Needs of Men. Nursing Times
2. Department of Health (2000) Health
: 102 (24), pp23–24.
Minister to Announce New Plans to
Improve Men’s Health. Press Releas
e. London: DH.
es and Human Disease. World Health
1. World Health Organization. Gen
The Perinatal Mental Health Project
Bolton, Salford and Trafford Mental Health NHS Trust
Congratulations to Dr Suzanne Glendenning
(Clinical Psychologist) and the Perinatal Team
who won joint first prize for their perinatal
service, developed in collaboration with Salford
SureStart. “The rate of depression amongst
new mothers in the SureStart areas of Salford is
1
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Dr Richard Deed (Innovation Unit Manager, TrusTECH),
Dr Suzanne Glendenning and Dr Pauline Hall
nearly four times the national average”, explained Dr Glendenning. “Research has
shown that depression in the mother can also
have adverse effects on a child’s health (e.g.
cognitive, emotional and behavioural development). The service offers rapid access to specialist assessment and treatment to mothers in the
SureStart areas who suffer from pre- or postnatal depression or who are at high risk of developing mental health problems. It is
believed to be the only service to offer an
integrated service for one-to-one assessment
and therapy.
Dr Glendenning said, “The award will
help us to publicise the service and work
towards making it available to women
across Salford”.
The X-PERT Programme
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale
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Department of Health Website (www.dh.gov.uk; accessed
Highly
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Highly
Commended
Jo McCullagh and Gar
eth Lewis
Dr Patrick Sheehan
If you would like to learn more about the possibility of
implementing any of these services in your Trust, please
contact Emma Malpeli, TrusTECH Service Innovation Manager (0161 276 5970; [email protected])
Making Your Ideas Work
TrusTECH would like to hear from
North West NHS Staff with:
• innovative technology or device ideas; and/or
• service innovations with proven benefits
Call TrusTECH now on
0161 276 5764
ACTNoW® – ‘New-Look’ Website Coming Soon!
ACTNoW aims to attract industry funding, contribute to clinical expertise and, most importantly, ensures that patients
have equal access
to novel interventions through trials and other research.
Key features for 2006
•New datasets (general practitioners, research nurses
and clinical research facilities)
•A dedicated area for patients
and the public
•Principal investigators, nurses
and Trusts can now register
online
•User feedback to be immediately
posted back to the ACTNoW
team
Since its launch on 22 June 2004, the ACTNoW database has become an
invaluable clinical research resource for the NHS, industry and academia – with 1000 Principal Investigators already registered. TrusTECH is pleased
to announce the imminent launch of a ‘new-look’ ACTNoW website with
updated information and new datasets to better suit user needs.
“…It is very useful to be able to identify the right person to contact
and speeds up the clinical trial process” – ACTNoW User.
ACTNoW is a ‘one-stop’ shop that facilitates the placement of clinical trials and collaborative studies by providing key contacts and signposting
key resources via a user-friendly interface. “ACTNoW has been a huge success so far and there are plans to
extend the ACTNoW database to cover the whole of the North of
England. I am sure that the new more user-friendly website and
comprehensive database will encourage more people to use the
resource” – Dr Angela Parker (ACTNoW Database Manager).
To register for access to the database visit www.trustech.org.uk or for more information contact Dr Angela Parker ([email protected]; 0161 276 5764)