This award is in recognition of teams and individuals and individuals who champion creativity and innovation in order to improve Trust performance and patient care. These people lead the charge in innovation, ensuring we improve the things that could be better and building upon the things that work.
These are truly the dynamic heroes which help to us to become outstanding in all we do.
Meet the nominees:
Dr Subedi, Consultant, Emergency Department
Dr Subedi has been instrumental in starting CESR training in the Emergency Department at DRI. This has attracted good doctors to join the training at all levels, as well as experienced consultants who help run the department across sites. He has further enhanced the profile of the Trust by grabbing the attention of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. The training programme is already bringing improvements to the Emergency Department and the department, which itself continues to be one of the best performing in the country.
Jo Hutchinson, IT Project Manager
Jo delivers consistent, outstanding results in a challenging environment with financial and resource constraints. Over the last year Jo has handled four major Trust technology projects, including upgrading our 7,000 email users to NHS Mail, a new blood tracking system, a major upgrade to our ePrescribing system and technology changes to patient flows. These projects have been complex in nature but Jo has delivered them all to budget, on time and to a high quality.
Paul Bird, Head of Hotel Services
Paul has lead the transformation of Cleaning and Portering Services at the Trust. Paul worked seamlessly with the Birch Foundation to redesign the system and implement a new, more effective structure which also allowed greater opportunity for career progression and training within the services. Paul’s leadership on this has meant that we have seen nearly a 10% increase in productivity whilst complaints about delays have fallen. It also resulted in cost savings of over £400k a year.