On 22 November the winners of the 2017 HSJ Awards were announced at a ceremony in London.
The full list of winners is below:
Award for Acute Sector Innovation
Winner: Imperial College Healthcare Trust
Highly commended: Barts Health Trust, CEG and Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group
Award for Acute, Community and/or Primary Care Services Redesign
Winner: Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust
Award for Compassionate Patient Care
Winner: Warrington Clinical Commissioning Group
Highly commended: Birmingham Women's and Children's Foundation Trust
Award for Enhancing Care by Sharing Data and Information
Winner: Nottingham University Hospitals Trust and East Midlands Academic Health Sciences Network
Highly commended: Chelsea and Westminster Foundation Trust and Imperial College London
Award for Using Technology to Improve Efficiency
Winner: St George's Hospital
Award for Improving Care With Technology
Winner: Communitas Clinics Ltd & Surrey Downs Clinical Commissioning Group
Award for Improved Partnerships between Health and Local Government
Winner: The ESBT partners: Eastbourne, Hailsham and Seaford Clinical Commissioning Group; Hastings and Rother Clinical Commissioning Group; East Sussex County Council; East Sussex Healthcare Trust; Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust
Award for Improving Outcomes Through Learning and Development
Winner: Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Highly commended: Maudsley Simulation
Award for Innovation in Mental Health
Winner: Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Award for Patient Safety
Winner: James Paget University Hospital
Highly commended: Written Medicine
Award for Primary Care Innovation
Winner: eConsult
Highly commended: North West London Collaboration of Clinical Commissioning Groups
Award for Specialised Services Redesign
Winner: University Hospitals of North Midlands
Highly commended: The London Pathways Partnership
Award for Improving Environmental and Social Sustainability
Winner: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust
Award for CCG and Local Authority Integrated Commissioning for Carers
Winner: Sue Ryder
p> Highly commended: Worcestershire County Council, Worcestershire Clinical Commissioning Groups and Association of CareersAward for Supported Self Care
Winner: First Steps Derbyshire
Award for International Health Partnership
Winner: The Butabika - East London Link
Highly commended: King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre and King’s College London
Award for Staff Engagement
Winner: Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals Foundation Trust
Winner: Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
Award for Workforce
Winner: West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust
Highly commended: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust
Award for Most Effective Adoption and Diffusion of Existing Best Practice
Winner: Integrated Care Exeter Strategic Alliance
Highly commended: South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust and Thames Reach Charity Partnership
Award for Clinical Leader of the Year
Winner: Claire Fuller, Surrey Downs Clinical Commissioning Group
Award for Chief Executive of the Year
Winner: Tom Cahill, Hertfordshire Partnership
Highly commended: Sir Andrew Cash OBE, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust
Award for Clinical Commissioning Group of the Year
Winner: Hull Clinical Commissioning Group
Highly commended: Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group
Award for Provider Trust of the Year
Winner: Northumberland, Tyne and Wear Foundation Trust
Highly commended: Alder Hey Children’s Foundation Trust
Commenting on scooping the Award for Improving Environmental and Social Sustainability, in recognition of its pioneering work to provide nutritious, healthy and sustainably-sourced food to patients; Emma Wilson, head of catering at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: “We are continually working to achieve best practice in all that we do, including providing healthy, high-quality food at good cost for our patients and staff and supporting the NHS carbon reduction strategy.
“Not only has this improved patient satisfaction scores, but will it inevitably have a wider environmental impact on the community which we serve.”
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust picked up the Using Technology to Improve Efficiency category for its Home Monitoring of Hypertension in Pregnancy smartphone app (HaMpton).
The app allows women to monitor their blood pressure at home and alerts them if they need to attend hospital for further assessment.
Dr Asma Khalil, consultant obstetrician at St George’s, led the project after having had the idea as a junior doctor.
She said: “It means so much to be recognised at this level and we hope this helps us to implement the app on a larger scale to benefit more people.”