Innovation 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. More details here. 
"Innovation in Healthcare Support Worker (HCSW) Preceptorship & Development” submitted by Lucy Somerville, Professional Development Nurse at Brighton General Hospital, Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust. More details here. 
“Delirium poster” submitted by Johanna Barnes Advanced Practitioner, Clinical Assessment and Treatment Unit (CATU) at Tewkesbury Community Hospital, Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust. More details here. 
Green Initiative Winner – “Earthly Ideas Frome Achievements” submitted by Melissa Messenger & Peter Harvey from Frome Community Hospital, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. More details here.   

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. More details here. 
“Group Activities to Improve Patient Experience,” submitted by Tracy Uwaechie, Healthcare Support Worker at Crawley Hospital, Sussex community NHS Foundation Trust. More details here. 

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

All ten poster submissions were displayed at this year’s CHA National Conference 10/11th October and are available here in the 2024 conference programme. The winners and highly commended entries were celebrated and received their CHA Innovations and Best Practice Awards at the conference networking dinner on Thursday 10th October 2024. 

Our Award Winners 2024

Ami Cook & Debbie Poulston, Physiotherapists from Paulton & Bath Community Hospitals, HCRG Care Group with their 2024 Innovation & Best Practice Award at the CHA National Conference. 

Johanna Barnes, Advanced Practitioner, Clinical Assessment and Treatment Unit (CATU) from Tewkesbury Community Hospital, Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust with her Innovation & Best Practice Award 2024. 

Lucy Somerville, Professional Development Nurse at Brighton General Hospital, Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust with her Innovation & Best Practice Award at the CHA National Conference 2024. 

Melissa Messenger & Peter Harvey from Frome Community Hospital, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, winners of this year's Green Initiative with their awards at the CHA National Conference. 

  

 Congratulations to our Innovation & Best Practice Award Winners 2023!            

Our Award Winners in Sussex

                                                   

Introduction of a Health Care Support Worker education and development team Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust.  For more details download here

Intermediate Care Unit End PJ Paralysis Campaign  Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust For more details download here

 

EPMA roll out and Careflow Medicines Management Integration, Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration Project Team

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust. For more details download here

 

Our Award Winners from Cornwall             

Wound Management Clinic Camborne and Redruth Community Hospital For more details download here

                                                                                               

 

Get it on Time: Parkinson’s Medication from Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. For more detail download here

                               

 

Our Award Winner from Powys

Pharmacy Intervention Recording ToolRafael Baptista, Clinical Pharmacist from Powys Teaching Health Board, NHS Wales. For more detail download here

 

 

Thank you to everyone who submitted an application. Thank you to our Judging Panel: 

   Evelyn Prodger RN QN MSc BSc Hons                      CHA Chair and QI Lead
   Helen Rowe BSc Hons ILM member                         CHA Committee Member
   Heather Penwarden BEM RMN Dip CBT (Retired)  Community Voice
   Sue Greenwood MBE RN QN MA                              CHA Committee Member

 

Details of previous winners are below. If you have any questions or need any assistance please contact us here  


Awards in 2021-2022

Awards in 2020

Awards in 2019

Awards up to 2018
The CHA Innovations and Best Practice Awards Programme has been running since 2000 and during that time the CHA has given 158 awards. The record of awards can be downloaded here and demonstrates the breadth of services and facilities that are offered in our community hospitals.