Innovations and Best Practice Awards

Innovation & Best Practice Posters Competition 2024

Thank you to everyone who submitted a poster to this year's Innovation and Best Practice Awards. We are thrilled so many community hospital's staff took the time to create wonderful posters representing their innovations in the work that improve care and outcomes for patients and staff alike.

This year the judging panel awarded three winning posters. As the standard was so very high, they decided to award a fourth winner for a special 'Green Initiative', along with two highly commended posters.

Congratulations to all our wonderful community hospitals innovators!

We are delighted to announce this year's Innovation and Best Practice Award winning and highly commended poster entrants as follows:

This year’s winning entries are:

• “Cubii Seated Exercise Project” submitted by Ami Cook & Debbie Poulston, Physiotherapists at Paulton & Bath Community Hospitals, HCRG Care Group.

• "Innovation in Healthcare Support Worker (HCSW) Preceptorship & Development” submitted by Lucy Somerville, Professional Development Nurse at Brighton General Hospital, Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust.

• “Delirium poster” submitted by Johanna Barnes Advanced Practitioner, Clinical Assessment and Treatment Unit (CATU) at Tewkesbury Community Hospital, Gloucestershire Health and Care Community Trust.

• Green Initiative Winner – “Earthly Ideas Frome Achievements” submitted by Melissa Messenger & Peter Harvey from Frome Community Hospital, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

This year’s highly commended awards go to:

• “Lunch Club Quality Improvement” submitted by Maggie McDowell, Team Lead Physio at Milford Community Hospital, Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
• “Group Activities to Improve Patient Experience” submitted by Tracy Uwaechie, Healthcare Support Worker at Crawley Hospital, Sussex community NHS Foundation Trust

The judging panel would like to thank all of this year’s entries for their wonderful work.

All ten poster submissions will be displayed at this year’s CHA National Conference 10/11^th October. The winners and highly commended entries will be celebrated and receive their CHA Innovations and Best Practice Awards at the conference networking dinner on Thursday 10^th October.

Do join us for a celebratory evening!