Covid Response Award

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Awarded to the NHS organisation which has implemented swift and successful measures in order to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic.

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H Barnsley Healthcare Federation To combat high Covid-19 prevalence BHF have provided support to all practices. A Covid-19 clinic was set up to support all symptomatic patients in Barnsley. As a direct result all practices have remained ‘cold sites’ meaning they have not had to see symptomatic patients. New ways of working that have had a direct benefit for practices and patients include: bulk PPE ordering for practices; extended hours services for all Barnsley residents. As of October 2021, 279,217 vaccines administered at hubs. It is estimated that £750,000 has been saved across the system.

H Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

During the initial rollout of Covid-19 vaccinations, the Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Covid Vaccination team came together from various areas of the trust in order to provide a highly successful service. Staff worked at pace and displaying high levels of collaboration, quality of care and a patient focus in order to deliver over 10,000 vaccinations over the period of several months. This also included support local health and social care workers within the local authority/community. The team, were instrumental in ensuring that local health and social care service were protected and feel as safe as possible.

H Mid and South Essex Health and Care Partnership To highlight Essex’s heroes throughout the pandemic, a campaign called MSE Big Thank You was designed by the Mid and South Essex Health and Care Partnership communications team. To identify a way of capturing the soul of the local response, a central campaign video was born. Mid and South Essex worked in partnership with a local community Facebook group called Essex Coronavirus Action Page, and, over 77,000 people watched the video in a matter of days after launch, with over 600 people sharing the video and over 13,708 engagements.

H NHS Shared Business Services

Having successfully implementing business continuity measures at the beginning of the pandemic to ensure we could continue to provide critical services to more than 100 NHS providers and every CCG in the country, NHS SBS has been ensuring that employment, finance and procurement services are provided to the NHS organisations across the country that rely on them. This has involved aiding NHS SBS staff through remote working, a new well-being programme and additional flexible working.

H University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust University Hospitals of Derby and Burton introduced the use of ‘Redirooms’ in its hospitals to prevent Covid contacts, reduce nosocomial infections and outbreaks, enhance patient flow across the emergency admission pathway and increase confidence in patients and staff. A positive outcome was a greater degree of positivity from staff in other wards to take patients into their care from the MAU ward, because they were assured that patients who had subsequently tested negative for Covid-19 had not been in contact with Covid-19 positive patients.

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