Teams celebrate at HSJ Patient Safety Awards
On Monday 15 September, we had two teams representing us at the HSJ Patient Safety Awards evening, alongside colleagues from Leicestershire Partnership Trust (LPT).
Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust's (NHFT) Intermediate Care team (ICT) were shortlisted in the 'Deteriorating Patients and Rapid Response Initiative of the Year' category. Earlier this year, we ran a campaign highlighting the work of the ICT team, and the compassionate care they provide in the community and in acute hospital settings. You can watch back the videos here.
Since these videos were made, the team are now utilising new technology which allows them to provide efficiencies for staff and patients. These include:
- Trialling point of care (POC) portable blood testing kits which allow nurses to take blood from a patient and process it, within the patient's home. This provides an immediate result, which allows a rapid decision on the next course of action. It reduces time and travel costs for staff.
- Ensuring that lifting equipment which can help patients who have had a fall to get off the floor if it is safe to do so, is available in more community bases, ensuring timely access to the equipment, increasing the 2-hour response to patients, and minimising the risk of patient deterioration.
- Silver Trauma Training , specialising in care for over 65s for our band 7 nurses. Staff have also received specialist training on treating cuts, wounds and using steri-strips. These innovations mean patients, especially fallers, can be treated and supported to recover in their own homes, which is often the patient's wish, is a better environment for their recovery and prevents a hospital admission.
Congratulations for being finalists in the Patient Safety awards, we know the difference you make every day to your patients and the compassionate care you deliver.
The Waterlily programme (supported by LPT and NHFT staff) that operates across the East Midlands region, won the 'Community Initiative Award', and were Highly Commended for the 'Remote Award' at the HSJ ceremony.
The Waterlily Inpatient Prevention Pgramme is a pioneering online serve, that has been piloted by the East Midlands NHS Provider Collaborative for adults with anorexia nervosa. Recent data suggests that those that have taken part in the programme, which has been running for 16 months, have demonstrated significant improvements in weight, psychological well-being and eating disordered behaviours.
The service delivers practical and psychoeducational groups as well as therapeutic interventions for patients, with the aim of restoring weight and preventing potential inpatient admission.
Congratulations to both teams, and thank you for all you do to make a difference to our patients and communities.