NUH scoops awards at first ever Health and Care Awards for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) is proud to have won the Equity Award and be a key partner in the Best Outcomes Award at the first ever Integrated Care System (ICS) Health and Care Awards for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.
The awards, held on 24 October at The University of Nottingham, were run in partnership with the Nottinghamshire Lieutenancy as part of their commitment to mark 75 years of the NHS and celebrated success across the Integrated Care System – a partnership of NHS services, local authorities, public sector and voluntary organisations.
NUH was shortlisted for a total of five awards, with six teams in the running for the following categories; Value for Money, Prevention, Equity, Best Outcomes and the Lord-Lieutenant’s Partnership Award.
Winners of the Equity Award were the BAME Wig Project, led by the NUH Black Asian Minority Ethnic Shared Governance Council who worked with the Sistas Against Cancer Group to follow up on feedback from patients who were undergoing chemotherapy treatment, which highlighted the need for appropriate wigs for BAME cancer patients. Patients had fed back about the emotional trauma associated with the loss of respect and dignity due to being offered inappropriate wigs, and therefore the Council set out to restore patient dignity.
The scheme is now being offered to ALL patients with alopecia, plus a regular trichology clinic, with the intention of sharing good practice regionally, nationally and internationally.
Paula Edwards, Chair of the Sistas Against Cancer (SAC) group said: “I feel very honoured that we have won the award, but also a bit emotional, because whilst trying to get this project up and running, we’ve sadly lost three SAC members, who without their support we wouldn’t have got this project to where it is now, so I’d like to remember Sandra Siblis, Mrs Anderson and of course founder of SAC, Dr Rose Thompson, champion for Black healthcare equality and Director of B’Me Against Cancer, who we lost in June this year.”
On how it feels to win the award, Onyi Enwezor, our International Recruitment Pastoral Lead, on behalf of the NUH BAME shared governance council team said: “It is quite overwhelming. Reaching out to the community and listening to patients is where it all started. We are delighted to have been given the opportunity to work with Sistas Against Cancer, the determination and collaborative working with the BAME shared governance council has got us to this winning position.”
NUH is also proud to be a key partner in the One Version of the Truth Data project, which has been set up to support hospital discharge and won the Best Outcomes Award. Working with partners across the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire health and care system, utilising an online system known as Nervecentre, the teams involved managed to create a one version of the truth discharge dataset which has resulted in the creation of multi-disciplinary Transfer of Care Hubs, which have helped to manage the safe, timely and appropriate discharge of older people once they are well enough to leave hospital and return home. Patients are now going home in a shortened time, leading to people spending 20,000 fewer days a year in a hospital bed at one of the acute hospitals in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.
Mark Simmonds, Deputy Medical Director at NUH who has been supporting the project said: “Working with our local authorities, the three acute trusts, two community care providers across the area has achieved some really fantastic results for patients across the ICS. I’m really proud to have been involved in this project, which has been viewed as national best practice by NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care.”
Anthony May, NUH Chief Executive, who attended the awards added: “I would like to thank the Integrated Care System and Lord Lieutenant for organising the awards and congratulate all the nominees and award winners. NUH is part of the wider health and care system and it was great to see how much good work happens across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.
“We were proud to be nominated across five categories and I was really pleased that NUH won the Equity Award, and was a key partner in the Best Outcomes Award. Everyone at NUH works hard for our patients but it is always heartening when our work receives recognition.”
NUH projects that were shortlisted included; the Working to Achieve Value and Excellence (WAVE) Programme and the Nottingham Elective Orthopaedic Services (NEOS) Day Case Pathways Project, which were shortlisted for the Value for Money Award, the NUH Children with Diabetes Team and Active Hospitals Physical Activity Project, which was shortlisted for the Prevention Award and the Cancer Prehabilitation Service which was shortlisted for the Lord-Lieutenant’s Partnership Award.
To find out more about Shared Governance and how to get involved in your local council (or even how to start your own!) visit our Shared Governance page or the Shared Governance Intranet page on any NUH device.