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North West NHS Innovation Awards 2008 Winners!
NHS Staff from Trusts across the North West have won top accolades and prize money totalling £8000 at the seventh annual North West NHS Innovation Awards.
They received praise from top NHS professionals at a glitzy ceremony at the Last Drop Village Hotel in Bolton.
Dr Richard Deed, Innovation Unit Manager of TrusTECH stated - "We know that we have some of the UK's best iinnovators here in the region and these awards recognise and reward the NHS staff in the North West that are producing innovations that ultimately benefit patients."
Each winner picked up a cheque of £1000 on behalf of their Trust with the winner of the NHS North West sponsored awards of Best Team and Best Innovation Contributing to World Class Healthcare picking up a further £2000 for their respective Trusts.
More than 100 entries, across 6 categories, were submitted for consideration by a judging panel of 16 experts from within the NHS, professional media and specialist commercial companies and the top three from each category were iinvited to attend the awards ceremony held on Tuesday 28 October.
2008 Finalists and Winners:
Training and Educational Materials
Web Based Interactive 3-D Obstetric Education Programme
Alison Gale, Consultant Obstetrician,
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Mr VICTOR
Dee Waterhouse, Consultant Nurse,
Central Manchester & Manchester Children's University Hospitals NHS Trust
EASE (Emergency Anaesthetic Simulated Experience)
Dr Arpan Guha & Professor Martin Leuwer, Consultants in Anaethesia / Intensive Care Medicine
Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust
Training and Educational Materials
Winner: Mr Victor
Runners Up: Web Based Interactive 3-D Obstetric Education Programme - 2nd
EASE (Emergency Anaesthetic Simulated Experience) - 3rd
Medical Device, Equipment, Diagnostics, or Therapeutics
Innovative Labelling Device for Medicines
Kalpna Panchmatia, Medicines Information Manager
Thameside & Glossop Acute Service NHS Trust
Improved Method for Respiratory Virus Detection
Caroline Corless, Clinical Scientist
Central Manchester & Manchester Children's University Hospitals NHS Trust
Cough Monitor
Kevin McGuiness, Clinical Engineer
University Hospitals of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust
Medical Device, Equipment, Diagnostics, or Therapeutics
Winner: Cough Monitor
Improved Method for Respiratory Virus Detection- 2nd
Innovative Labelling Device for Medicines- 3rd
Software or Systems
Laboratory MonSTA
Andy Minett, Specialist Biomedical Scientist
Bolton Hospiatls NHS Trust
Dental Implant Recognition System
Craig Barclay, Consultant in Rehabilitation
Central Manchester & manchester CHildren's University Hospitals NHS Trust
ScanSpeak
Tamsin Crothers, Speech & Language Therapist
Ashton, Leigh & Wigan Primary Care Trust
Software or Systems
Winner: ScanSpeak
Laboratory MonSTA - 2nd
Dental Implant Recognition System - 3rd
Service Innovatons or Developments
Physical Healthcare in Severe and Enduring Mental Illness
Claire Hinze, Physical Wellbeing Lead
Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Public Health Strategy Because Your Health Matters
Moya Sutton , Health Promotion Practioner
Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust
High Street Testing
Gilbert Wieringa, Project Lead
Salford Primary Care Trust
Service Innovatons or Developments
Winner: Physical Healthcare in Severe and Enduring Mental Illness
igh Street Testing - 2nd
Public Health Strategy Because Your Health Matters - 3rd
Best Innovative Team
WINNER: Physical Healthcare in Severe and
Enduring Mental Illness
Claire Hinze, Physical Wellbeing Lead
Greater Manchester West Mental Health
NHS Foundation Trust
Best Innovation Contributing to World Class Healthcare
WINNER: Public Health Strategy Because Your
Health Matters
Moya Sutton, Health Promotion Practioner
Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust