West Yorkshire Modernisation Awards 2006: Celebrating Achievements

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The West Yorkshire Modernisation Awards are an annual event to recognise the innovation and achievement of front line staff in health and social care across West Yorkshire. The Awards ceremony took place on Friday the 24th of March 2006 at Elland Road Stadium in Leeds.

The purpose of the Modernisation Awards was to:

  • reward and recognise some of the excellent work which is undertaken in the NHS in West Yorkshire; and
  • share ideas, experiences, initiatives and ways of working to benefit and improve the patient's experience of NHS services.

Click here to download the Event Review Brochure for 2006

See below for the Winning and Highly Commended Projects

 

Winning Projects

 Name of Organisation(s)  Name of Project  Name of Category
South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust, Wakefield Metropolitan District Council, Eastern Wakefield and Wakefield West Primary Care Trusts, Alzheimers Society and Age Concern Rapid Access Service  Service Redesign Award
North Bradford Primary Care Trust (Health on the Streets) Community Parent Peer Education Course Involving Patients, Users and their Carers to Improve Services Award
South West Yorkshire Mental NHS Trust, The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, North Kirklees Primary Care Trust and Kirklees Social Services Older People's Partnership Project Spreading of Good Practice Award 
North Bradford Primary Care Trust (Health on the Streets), Age Concern and Bradford Council's Sport and Leisure Services  Older People's Swimming Development Group Reducing Health Inequalities Award 
Wakefield West and Eastern Wakefield Primary Care Trusts, Wakefield Metropolitan District Council Social Services and the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust  Falls Risk Assessment Tool and Guidelines  Improving Assessment and Diagnosis Award 
The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust  Nurse-Led Telephone Follow-up for Stable Prostate Cancer Patients  Smarter Follow-ups Award 
Eastern Wakefield Primary Care Trust  Risky Business  Non-Clinical Improvement Award 
Calderdale Primary Care Trust  Health Visitor Caseload Weighting Project  Better Working Lives for Staff Award 

 

Highly Commended Projects 

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Name of Organisation(s)  Name of Project  Name of Category
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust  One-Stop Carpal Tunnel Service  Service Redesign Award 
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust, Calderdale and South Huddersfield Primary Care Trusts  Reorganisation of Acute Stroke Services  Service Redesign Award 
East Leeds Primary Care Trust and Social Services  0-16 Team South (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Team)  Involving Patients, users and their carers to improve services Award 
The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Eastern Wakefield, Wakefield West and North Kirklees Primary Care Trusts and the Yorkshire Cancer Network Service Improvement Team  User Involvement Framework for Cancer Services Involving Patients, users and their carers to improve services Award 
South Leeds Primary Care Trust, Owlett Hall, Pennington Court and Ashlands Nursing Homes, Patient Advice and Liason Service, Local Patient Forum and the Policy Research Institute on Ageing and Ethnicity  The Essence of Improving Communication  Spreading of Good Practice Award 
Calderdale and Kirklees Palliative Care Strategy Group Palliative Care Education Project for Unqualified Care Staff  Spreading of Good Practice Award 
Bradford District Care Trust Adventure Therapy  Reducing Health Inequalities Award 
East Leeds Primary Care Trust and Leeds United Ability Counts  Paediatric Occupational Therapy  Reducing Health Inequalities Award 
South West Yorkshire Mental Health Trust and the Alzheimer's Society  Responding to Service User Choice in the Wakefield Memory Service  Improving assessment and diagnosis Award 
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust  Nurse and Pharmacist-Led HIV Clinic  Smarter follow-ups Award 
Leeds West Primary Care Trust  Leeds Head Injury Team's Screening Clinic  Smarter follow-ups Award 
Huddersfield Central and South Huddersfield Primary Care Trusts, Calderdale and Huddersfield Health Informatics Service, West Yorkshire Workforce Development Confederation and Huddersfield Technical College  Peripatetic Trainer Support for Non-Professionally Qualified Support Workers  Non-clinical improvement Award 
Airedale NHS Trust Trust-wide Combined Knowledge and Document Management System and intranet Non-clinical improvement Award 
Leeds Teaching Hospitals  NHS Trust and the Coronary Heart Disease Collaborative   Shared Care for Post Operative Cardiac Patients  Better Working Lives for Staff Award 
Leeds Mental Health Trust  Supporting Staff at Work and Management of Stress Framework  Better Working Lives for Staff Award 

For further information on the West Yorkshire Modernisation Awards 2006, visit the  West Yorkshire Strategic Health Authority Website

Click here for the 2004 & 2005 Modernisation Awards