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28 Oct 2019
Winners revealed at the NHS In the North Excellence in Supply Awards 2019
A host of health and care organisations and small businesses from across the North West have collected honours in this year’s NHS in the North Excellence in Supply Awards.
The awards, hosted by the NHS Northern Customer Board and the Innovation Agency, celebrate the work of businesses, third sector organisations and the NHS in collaborating to deliver great patient care.
The NHS Excellence in Supply Awards awards are sponsored by the Innovation Agency, Health Innovation Manchester and Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network.
Cheshire company Healthcare Communications won the prestigious Supplier of the Year award, as well as carrying off the Support Services award.
NHS award-winners included Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, North West Shared Infrastructure Services and Healthier Lancashire and South Cumbria, which jointly won the NHS Procurement Innovation Award.
Satpal Singh, Head of Medical Physics, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, was named NHS Procurement Champion and Ben McKeogh Senior buyer, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, was named NHS Procurement Rising Star.
Meanwhile, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (now part of Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) carried off the NHS Supplier Engagement award.
IEG4 were named winners of the Innovation Award for their digital transformation of continuing healthcare. Find out more about their project in our NHS Innovation Accelerator case study here
Professor Ben Bridgewater, Chief Executive of Health Innovation Manchester and Dr Liz Mear, Chief Executive of the Innovation Agency, said: “All the award winners deserve huge congratulations. At their heart, these awards showcase some fantastic collaborations between NHS organisations and their partners that ensure improved patient care.”
Mick Guymer, Chair of the NHS Northern Customer Board, added: “The quality and diversity of the work that’s being rolled out across the region is very impressive. It’s very encouraging that so many collaborations are taking place to overcome the challenges we face and deliver efficiencies and better care.”
NHS Excellence in Supply Award winners and those nominated
Winner: Healthcare Communications
Winner: DrDoctor and Intouch With Health – Transforming outpatient services through digital collaboration
Highly commended: LloydsPharmacy – LloydsPharmacy outpatient dispensing and delivery services
Finalists:
Approach Medical Limited and Possum Limited – How we saved one NHS ward £417,000 in one year
Attends – Continence formulary change
Karl Storz – Karl Storz camera replacement at James Cook University Hospital
Winner: IEG4- Digital transformation of continuing healthcare
Highly commended: Patchwork Health- Digital transformation of temporary staffing
Finalists:
academyCP – Massage therapy service
d2 Digital By Design Limited – Identifying stroke mimics using mobile technology
Apadmi with NHSBT – DonorPath
Stericycle – Bio systems sharps management service
Fortrus Limited – Paper Free Health Record (PFHR)
Natus Nicolet TA Otometrics – Transforming audiology in line with NHS digitisation
Kimberly-Clark Professional – Reducing hand hygiene spend and driving efficiencies at the Northern Care Alliance with Scott® Rolled Hand Towel
Synopsis Healthcare – Digitising pre-operative assessments to improve the flow to theatre
Winner: Frontier Medical Group – A new model for a needle exchange programme
Finalists:
Glow New Media Limited – SafeTeam Guardian
Select Medical Limited – Making Greater Manchester mental health wards safer and more comfortable for service users and staff
Moving Essence Limited – Moving Essence Nature Art support: a sensory room at Ribblemere Mother and Baby Unit
Winner: Radiology Management Solutions – Helping the NHS save money and increase efficiency through better utilisation of in-house radiology resources
Highly commended: Urgo Medical – Spend to save: providing a district nursing team with a head start
Finalists:
Abbott Nutrition – Providing value-based procurement for NHS trusts
Health Diagnostics – Boosting NHS staff wellbeing with a digital health check toolkit
SHS Partners Surgical Limited – Delivery of a value-based procurement
Apogee Corporation – Innovative technology optimises The Christie’s print infrastructure
Winner: Moving Essence Limited – Moving Essence Nature Art support: Ingleside Birth and Community Centre
Finalists:
B Braun Medical Limited – Orthopaedic pathway: digitising care to empower patients
D&G Builders and Joiners Limited – Rapid assessment triage service
Natus Nicolet TA Otometrics – Transforming balance services for adult and paediatric patients with dizziness
DA Languages Limited – Providing local insight while sharing a global view
Intouch with Health – Transforming the outpatient experience
Winner: Olympus Associates Limited – KitMan
Highly commended: Patchwork – Reducing reliance and spend on agency locums
SF Taylor – Strategic partnership, consolidation and compliance
Finalists:
Topknots- Wig supplier
Inovus Medical – Affordable, accessible, functional healthcare simulation
D&G Builders and Joiners Limited – Helping to build the future NHS
Impact Consulting Psychologists Limited – Celebrating 25 years of service to the NHS
DA Languages Limited – The leading interpreting and translation provider to the NHS.
SHS Partners Surgical Limited – Maximising efficiencies and the use of resources within the NHS
Pervade Software Limited – Cyber security plus for the Global Digital Exemplar Programme
Winner: Healthcare Communications – Patient portal: digital-first patient letters and communications
Highly commended: Acorn Partnership – The Acorn Partnership healthcare innovation co-foundry
Finalists:
North West Private Ambulance Liaison Services Limited – Patient transport services
Health Diagnostics – Pioneering community public health provision in Newcastle
B Braun Medical Limited – B Braun Clinical Education Team
SF Taylor – ‘It’s Not Just Ink on Paper’: printed forms and documents for the NHS.
Winner: Ben McKeogh – Senior buyer, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Finalists:
Ellie Tivinan – Procurement Manager, Northern Care Alliance NHS Group
Amelia Hayes – Assistant buyer, NHS Supply Chain
Dawn Cowhig – Category buyer, NHS Supply Chain
Gemma Bushell – Senior buyer, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Sam Fletcher – Senior buyer, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Jessica Crolla – Senior buyer, St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Mark Miller, Buyer – Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Winner: Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Nominated by Lexmark.
Highly commended: Lancashire Procurement Cluster
Nominated by SF Taylor
Finalists:
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Nominated by North West Blood Bikes
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust. Nominated by Attends
Northern Care Alliance NHS Group. Nominated by IntelliCentrics UK Limited and Delta Surgical
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Nominated by Radiology Management Solutions
Winner: Satpal Singh – Head of Medical Physics, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Highly commended: Tissue Viability Team – Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Finalists:
Claire Kerr – Team Leader for General Surgery in Theatres, Chorley and South Ribble Hospital
Estates Team – Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Winner: Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, North West Shared Infrastructure Services and Healthier Lancashire and South Cumbria – Procuring the HSCN compliant future of Lancashire’s NHS Wide Area Network
Highly commended: NHS Lancashire Procurement Cluster – Clinical procurement leadership
Finalists:
North of England NHS Commercial Procurement Collaborative – Yorkshire and Humber community and mental health temporary staffing workforce cluster
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – Managed service for the provision of digital transformation solutions
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – Intraoperative neuromonitoring services and products
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – Off-site surgical and medical capacity solutions
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – Smart building solutions using the internet of things
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – GDPR-compliant IT disposal and secure data destruction
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – Managed video conferencing solutions