Effectiveness, efficiency and quality – maximising resources

Innovation and change do not necessarily need additional resources. In this category you should be able to demonstrate you have enhanced a service and maximised resources at your disposal to ensure effectiveness, efficiency and quality from both the service user/carer and staff perspective. In other words – best value for money!!

You will need to show that:

You have supporting evidence/information to underpin your service change

You have delivered an effective and high quality service in line with health & social care policy and strategy

You have demonstrated optimum use of resources

You have monitored and evaluated the effectiveness of your change

You have considered sustainability

Nominees in this category are:

Title of submission: First responders saving LIVES in Lincolnshire

Lead organisation: Lincolnshire Integrated Voluntary Emergency

Service (LIVES) - Winners

Contact person: Yvonne Owen, Clinical Director

A hearty congratulations to the LIVES First Responder Team of

Lincolnshire Integrated Voluntary Emergency Service!!

Title of submission: Informed, prepared and ready to go!

Lead organisation: Queen's Medical Centre, University Hospital NHS Trust

Contact person: Irene Ann Gordon, Paediatric Nurse Practitioner in ENT

Title of submission: Multidisciplinary pain management programmes for people with

chronic low back pain: improving our services to meet patients’ needs

Lead organisation: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust

Contact person: Jackie Goodall, Senior Occupational Therapist and Clinical Co-ordinator

Title of submission: Re-designed patient process in general surgery - it’s better for patients,

it’s better for staff and it’s better for the Trusts - how to catch a flying pig!

Lead organisation: Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust

Contact person: Uta Khendek, Project facilitator - AOGS

For the full submission and contact details please follow the links