- Best type 2 diabetes prevention initiative
- Best screening or early detection initiative
- Best initiative supporting self-care
- Best integrated care initiative
- Best emergency or inpatient care initiative
- Best initiative managing complications associated with diabetes
- Best safe care of patients initiative
- Clinical service redesign
- Best programme for specialist groups
- NHS team of the year working in diabetes
- Community initiative of the year
- Pharmaceutical industry-led initiative of the year
- Partnership working of the year
- Innovation award
- People’s award
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Best initiative managing complications associated with diabetes
This award recognises the high human and healthcare costs associated with diabetes as a chronic condition, resulting in longer term complications. It aims to recognise initiatives which take a proactive and integrated approach to improving the prevention and management of long term complications and supporting self management, that in doing so achieve improvements in quality and productivity.
Winner: Failsafe by Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
The introduction of ‘Failsafe’ has had a significant impact on patient outcomes. By using audits to identify risks in the programme, policies and protocols were introduced to improve practice and reduce the risk of blindness due to organisational oversight within the screening programme. Software communicating between primary care and the screening service was used to close the gap in communication between GPs and the screening service. The service continues to improve the process of exchanging data on clinical activity of its patients within ophthalmology with three Acute Trusts.
Second place: Systematically Improving the Outcomes of Prevention in Primary Care by Greenwich Public Health NHS South East London
In 2008 people living with diabetes in Greenwich had some of the poorest outcomes in the country as measured through QOF achievement rates. The Goal 2 programme was launched to develop a more systematic approach to prevention in primary care. For part of the programme NHS Greenwich joined a partnership with MSD to deliver improvements, which provided facilitated, structured cardio-metabolic risk management and supported sharing of best practice and continuing professional development.Improvements were made and estimated savings since the programme was commissioned for all Greenwich practices are £731,688.
