Category 1: Improving Processes and Healthcare Outcomes
1. Rapidly Failing, Slowly Tranquilising
Dr Ross Runciman, CT3 Psychiatry Trainee, 2gether NHS Foundation Trust
2. Reducing risk: Audit and action for patients at high risk of ischaemic stroke in primary care
Dr Celia Bryant, GPST1, NHS
3. Montgomery Compliance in a Clinical Setting - category winner
Dr Melissa Good, Consultant in Restorative Dentistry, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
4. Facilitating reflective practice to overcome barriers contributing to extended ambulance ‘on-scene’ times during time-critical cardiovascular emergencies.
Ollie Zorab, Quality Improvement Paramedic, South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
5. Improving the assessment and management of inpatient risk of falls
Stephen Shearman, Lead Falls Prevention Specialist Nurse, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust
6. Improving chest drain insertion in the Emergency Department
Dr Helen Mansfield, Emergency Consultant, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHSFT
7. PINS: Prescribing in Neutropenic Sepsis
Dr Alexander Churton, FY2 Doctor, Royal Derby Hospital
8. Hospital @ Night: FY1 Bleeps
Dr Sarah Ali, Junior Doctor, Guys and St Thomas’ Trust
9. The Silent Assassin: turning the tables on Acute Kidney Injury
Dr Nirosha Gunatillake, Consultant in Acute Medicine and Nephrology, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth Hospitals NHSTrust
10. Reduction of Inpatient Acquired AKI using quality improvement methodology to increase awareness and improve routine processes
Claire Lynch, Sepsis Specialist Nurse and Victoria Selby, Project Support Officer- Acute Kidney Injury and Sepsis, Royal United Hospital Bath
11. Improving the Management of COPD using Quality Improvement Methodology
Dr Georgia Connolly, Core Medical Trainee, Weston Area Health Trust
12. Decompensated liver cirrhosis - care bundle
Dr Tamar Avades, Core Medical Trainee, Musgrove Park Hospital
13. Patient engagement in Risk-to-self Reduction
Natasha Berthollier, Chartered Psychologist/ ASSiST Team Lead, Berks Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
14. Introduction of a Junior Doctor Coronary Angiogram Checklist
Dr Fiona Herbert, CT1 Doctor, North Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
15. Documentation of Operation Notes within Vascular Surgery: a completed audit cycle
Dr Winifred Garr, Foundation Year Two Doctor, The Royal Oldham Hospital, Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust
16. Is the ‘SAFER’ discharge bundle embedded into the 4pm General Medical board handover?
Dr Sophie Jones, Core Medical Trainee, Portsmouth Hospital Trust
17. Improving Patient Handover from Emergency Admissions Unit (EAU) to Ward
Dr Hannah Schneiders, F1 Junior Doctor, Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
18. How a New Care Bundle has Sustainably Reduced Surgical Site infection in Patients undergoing colorectal surgery
Dr Emile King, Clinical Fellow CT 1/2 Level General Surgery, North Bristol NHS Trust
19. Last Days Documentation Quality Improvement Project
Dr Jerome Condry, FY1 Doctor, Weston Area NHS Trust
20. AKI prevention post contrast for CT
Dr Jennifer Whateley, FY1 Doctor, Royal United Hospital Bath
21. Resistance Is Real: Improving Antibiotic Reviews
Dr Rajan Pooni, FY1 Doctor Sherwood Forest NHS Trust
22. Spend a Penny: The importance of preventing unnecessarily prolonged catheterisation
Dr Harpreet Sandhu, FY2 Doctor, NUH/Lincoln
23. Improving the timeliness of discharge summary completion on the acute medical admissions unit
Dr Peter Sykes, Clinical Teaching Fellow, Cheltenham General Hospital, Glos Hospitals NHS Trust
24. A multidisciplinary team’s approach to reducing the cost and risk of falls in frail older people by improving waiting times, triage, and multidisciplinary assessment.
Clare Shearer, Snr Physiotherapist, Royal Bournemouth & Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
25. Supporting the older frail person to engage in self-care - patient activation
Teresa Candfield, Locality Lead, North Somerset Community Partnership
Category 2: Teamwork, culture change, enhanced patient experience, learning from errors
26. Reducing unintentional omitted medication: Changing a culture
Kevin Gibbs, Clinical Pharmacy Manager, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
27. Good Morning Grantham
Dr Eleanor Badger, FY2 Doctor, NHS
28. Searching for Prohibited Items in Mental Health Hospitals – a Randomised Controlled Trial of Two Metal Detecting Technologies
Dr James Laidlaw, Consultant Psychiatrist, 2gether NHS Trust
29. Rapid spread of multidisciplinary training in Sepsis resulting in significant improvement in Sepsis management trust-wide.
Dr Sarah Cowey, Specialist Registrar Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
30. Developing the surgical safety checklist for ENT
Dr Mariam Latif, Specialist Trainee Anaesthetics, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
31. NSCP bring patient safety to life!
Suzanne Golding-Ellis, Head of Patient Safety and Infection Control, N Somerset Community Partnership
32. Sunshine on a rainy day- The benefits of group activities on an older person rehab ward Carrie Piper, Occupational Therapy, Sirona Care and Health
33. Improving psychological safety amongst staff in a District General Hospital Jo Howarth, Associate Director, Patient Safety and Quality, Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
34. Improving Patients’ Experiences at Night Time at Yeovil District District Hospital
Jules Yates, Patient Safety Coordinator, Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
35. Palliative Care Symptom Observation Chart - category winner
Dr Katherine Fok, Junior Doctor, Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
36. Implementation of Tag Care to Prevent Inpatient Falls in an Acute Setting
Krystle Pardon, Quality Improvement Lead, Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
37. Introduction of a Standardised Weekend Theatre Brief at Yeovil District Hospital
Dr Rachel Johns, Consultant Anaesthetist and Clinical Director for Patient Safety, Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
38. The impact of a human factors based team training programme on safety climate in the operating theatre
Ms Charlotte Hitchins, Specialty Trainee / Research Fellow in General Surgery, Plymouth Hosps NHS Trust
39. The impact of multi-disciplinary team training on non-technical skills in the operating theatre: a blinded study
Ms Charlotte Hitchins, Specialty Trainee / Research Fellow in General Surgery, Plymouth Hosps NHS Trust
40. Point of care simulation to improve patient safety on an assesment unit
Dr Mike Forster, Specialty Doctor, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust
Category 3: System-wide or capacity improvement, training, education, best-practice
41. Improving Identification, Management and Documentation of AKI in an Acute Trust
Dr James Fullick, FY2 Doctor, Weston Area Health Trust
42. Carbon Monoxide Kills - Midwife saves family from CO poisoning
Heidi Croucher, Smoking in Pregnancy Liaison Midwife, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
43. High Quality Simulation Based Medical Training Without Expensive Mannequins
Dr Emma J. Allison, Clinical Teaching Fellow County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust
44. Smarter and Safer Handover
Dr Gurkaran Samra, AMU Registrar, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
45. Stethoscope cleanliness: a quality improvement project
Dr Elizabeth Ewers, Plymouth NHS Trust
46. Equipping patients with the knowledge and skills to reduce their risk of falling at home following a recent stay on a community recovery, reablement and rehabilitation ward
Ann Keizer, Occupational Therapist, Sirona Care and Health
47. Reducing the incidence of opioid-induced constipation on the SEAU
Chris Puo Nem Lim, FY1 Doctor, Lincoln County Hospital
48. Exploring and Improving Plymouth Foundation Doctors’ Knowledge of Ionising Radiation Legislation and Exposure Guidelines
Dr Richard Chaytor, Core Surgical Trainee, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust
49. Scan4Safety
Sarah Evans, Scan4Safety Communications Lead, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
50. Sepsis Safe
Suzanne Golding-Ellis, Head of Patient safety and Infection Control, North Somerset Community Partnership
51. Sign and Deliver: Improving transmission of discharge information from Secondary to Primary Care in Weston Area Health Trust
Dr Manon Jenkins, FY1 Doctor, Weston Health Trust NHS
52. The use of marker balls in pelvic radiographs for patients with suspected neck of femur fractures
Dr Joshua Filer, CT1 Orthopaedic surgery, RUH Bath
53. Audit of endotracheal tubes (ETT) length and tip position in ventilated patients on ICU at the Great Western Hospital, Swindon
Dr Joseph Page, Foundation Year 1 Doctor,Great Western Hospital Swindon
54. Making treatment escalation decision a clinical priority
Dr Lihini Wijeyaratne, FY 2, Royal United Hospital, Bath
55. Hospital Excellence And Recognition Telephone (HEART): Learning from human factors analysis of positive reports of events within a district general hospital Dr Georgia Connolly, Core Medical Trainee, Weston Area Health Trust - first prize
56. Teaching acute management of inpatient falls through simulation at the point of care
Eleanor Thackeray, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation trust
57. Improving Patient Safety with a Mobility Scoring System: A Quality Improvement Project
Layla Guscoth, Foundation Year 1 Doctor, Royal United Hospitals Bath
