We are celebrating after winning The Ruth Young award at the North West Coast Innovation Agency Awards.
The prestigious North West Coast Innovation Agency awards recognise the work being undertaken in health and care across the region that demonstrate the impact clinical research, applied research and innovation has on patient and social care.
The Ruth Young award, established to honour the inspirational Public Health Research and Development Manager with Blackburn with Darwen Council, recognises research initiatives or partner collaborations that have enhanced or improved frontline delivery to service users in any area.
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, Health Education England, the University of Central Lancashire and Primary Care Networks across the region won the award in recognition of collaborating with General Practice and Community settings to implement findings about effective mental health prevention and promotion interventions.
The award winning initiative saw the team delivering a mental health prevention and promotion service within Primary Care Networks with a new workforce supply of psychological practitioners, referred to as the ‘Associate Psychological Practitioner’ (APP).
Dr Miranda Budd, Clinical Lead for the Associate Psychological Practitioners at Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust said:
“We’re extremely proud to have won The Ruth Young award at the North West Coast Innovation Agency Awards. We’re so proud of all the team and the incredible work they have done to intervene early and help meet mental health need in a GP setting.
“It was a fantastic evening and really special to achieve this recognition.”
Dr Mark Roy, TAPP course Co-Director at UCLAN added:
“This was such a special award for our team to receive being in memory of Ruth Young. The workforce innovation making a difference in primary care came about through incredible team work in the midst of a pandemic.”
Professor Umesh Chauhan, Professor of Primary Care and GP at Pendle View Medical Practice in Burnley, spoke about the work: “This is a much needed innovation which is helping to meet our populations need in the community. It’s particularly pleasing that it’s the Ruth Young award, an inspirational colleague I had the honour of working with.”
Dr Gita Bhutani, Director for Psychological Professions at Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust added:
“This is a really important piece of work that we have worked on with our partners so to receive this award is fantastic acknowledgement of the incredible efforts that have gone into the TAPP project.”
