Healthcare IT Award

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The wider use of computer technology in the NHS is evident throughout the world, with many countries citing NHS projects as examples of good practice. This award will recognise an organisation that is responsible for implementing a ground breaking IT project that demonstrates clear cost benefits to the wider NHS.

H Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

H Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

H London Ambulance Service

H Cambridge University Hospitals

Patients were regularly returning to Bradford’s Plaster Room, with as many as 87 per cent returning for reasons that could have been dealt with outside a hospital appointment. As a leader in digital innovation, the trust began to utilise smartphones allowing instant access to information 24/7, removing the risk of paper information being lost and reducing dependency on the service post cast application/treatment. QR codes are specific to the type of cast applied; easily accessed time and time again by scanning the code attached to the cast.

The pandemic has reinforced the need for a radical change in the way in which ophthalmic services in Wales is delivered. Throughout Covid-19, Cardiff and Vale UHB moved more than 5,000 patients into primary-care. Performance has actually improved, due to the delivery of effective training plan of qualified optometrists in primary care, especially compared against national averages. Cardiff and Vale UHB will supporting the shared care of more than 9,000 patients between the acute and primary care sectors in the delivery of a sustainable cost effective service.

London Ambulance Service successfully launched a move from a paper-based patient report form to an electronic patient care record for staff and volunteers to use in November last year. The ePCR rollout was unique as it affected multiple stakeholders at various stages. Over 3,000 members of operational staff and volunteers had training, and while facing the Covid 19 challenge, swiftly moved to online training supported by both operational management and the ePCR team. As of July 2021, 94 per cent of patient documentation was completed electronically.

Cambridge University Hospitals has become the first in the country to use sophisticated technology which chooses between solar, battery and mains energy, depending on which is the most green at the time of usage. This is used to deliver the lowest possible carbon heating and air-conditioning for mums and babies at The Rosie hospital. The technology has led to a 60 per cent carbon reduction and represents a major step towards the trust’s highly ambitious, net zero carbon future.

H NHS Arden & GEM CSU With a special focus on the healthcare sector, Philips Monitors aims to deliver products that focus on maximum flexibility, efficiency and security.

Its product range of display technology combines performance and high quality visuals with the security and flexibility that today’s workplaces need and to keep modern workplaces improving.

“The UK healthcare sector has served us tremendously this year as we were all facing unknown challenges. We are happy and proud to sponsor this year’s Health Business awards as a means of acknowledging the NHS’s singular efforts of the past months,” says Philips Monitors Regional Sales Director Paul Butler.

“At Philips Monitors, we believe in the power of technology to elevate modern workplaces, improve data security and, most importantly, empower those working with our products – those who put the screens to use and keep our healthcare system going.”

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Working in close partnership with the national programme team and hospitals designated as vaccination hubs, NHS Arden was able to scope, design and build a bespoke module within the National Immunisation and Vaccination System to capture real time data on vaccine take-up and ensure patients are receiving vaccine doses within specified timeframes. The system was rapidly deployed to the first hospital vaccination hubs in December 2020 and has since been rolled out to mass vaccination centres.

H Royal Papworth NHS Foundation Trust As part of the integration project, Royal Papworth created an interface between their own EPR system and Cambridge University Hospitals version.This enabled blood test orders and results to be shared between systems directly, enabling full automation of the pathology service.Later, electronic prescribing medicines administration (EPMA) was also implemented. Through automation, clinicians then had access to results instantaneously saving an average of 24 hours each time by eliminating manual transcription, which also reduced the risk of transcription errors.