A number of our teams have been shortlisted for awards at this year’s HSJ Patient Safety Awards which recognise safety, culture and positive experience in patient care.
The ‘advocacy for autistic people in mental health inpatient settings’ pilot is shortlisted in both the Mental Health Safety Improvement Award and Patient Safety Pilot Project of the Year categories.
The team worked with Advocacy Focus for 14 months, engaging with autistic inpatients across our hospitals. The aim of this engagement has been to gather the views, wishes and experiences of people surrounding their care and treatment and their experience of advocacy. These views have been collected with the vision of this shaping how inpatient services meet the needs of autistic people using their services and how effective advocacy services are.
Another project has been shortlisted for the Improving Health Outcomes for Minority Ethnic Communities award.
Associate Psychological Practitioners (APPs), who work with GP practices have worked hard to improve access rates and ensure equity in service provision across the region. After realising that improvements could be made, to ensure individuals from different backgrounds felt they could access mental health care, a group was set up to support this and community working was one of the things we focused upon. A more recent review now shows that the people accessing the services are now representative of the populations they serve.
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The Trust has also been shortlisted in the Early Stage Patient Safety Innovation of the Year and Patient Safety Team of the Year categories for DIALOG +, a new care model project looking at what matters most to service users to plan recovery goals and interventions. |
Lancashire and South Cumbria’s Resilience Hub, which was launched in response to Covid-19 to support public sector workers and their immediate families with the psychological impact of the pandemic, is shortlisted in the ‘Staff Wellbeing Initiative of the Year’ award.
Interim Chief Nurse and Quality Officer, Julie Anne Murray, said:
“We are proud to see that some of our wonderful teams have been recognised for collaborative work in a number of areas that reflect our focus to offer patients, including those who are autistic and from minority ethnic communities, the very best in care.
We are fortunate to have some great colleagues who go above and beyond for service users every day. There was a lot of tough competition and it is fantastic to be recognised amongst other organisations who are also doing some important work.”
The HSJ Patient Safety Awards acknowledge the hard-working teams and individuals across the UK who are continually striving to deliver improved patient care.
A record-breaking 515 entries were received for the HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2023, with 209 organisations, projects and individuals making it to the final shortlist.
The official awards ceremony will be held in Manchester in September.
The full list of finalists for the 2023 HSJ Patient Safety Awards can be found here.
