- 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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Partnership working of the year
This award relates to achieving gains in quality and productivity through cross-sector partnership working. It aims to recognise partnership initiatives that have facilitated new or improved services in the field of diabetes care at any point along the patient pathway, including prevention.
Winner: The Hypo Pathway by North Mersey Diabetes Network
The partnership working between this network and AstraZeneca is leading to improved patient care following a hypoglycaemic event (hypo). A lack of communication between primary care, secondary care and the ambulance service had led to missed opportunities in the past.
Several teams within the network worked together to develop and pilot a new treatment and information-sharing protocol to manage hypos as well as the delivery of additional training to ambulance staff. Specialist teams now offer comprehensive hypo assessment, post-event education and support and follow-up recommendations, which have led to improved communication, better patient outcomes and an enhanced patient experience.
Second place: Getting Sorted by Leeds Metropolitan University and Getting Sorted Enterprise
The ‘Getting Sorted’ programme for diabetes is a model of self-care based on the views of young people with Type 1 diabetes about what impacts on their lives and what they want in a self-care programme. The programme’s ethos is to engage young people actively at every stage and for young facilitators with Type 1 diabetes to help deliver workshops and develop the programme within Yorkshire & Humber SHA. The programme enables young people to increase their understanding of diabetes and improve selfmanagement, so reducing the risk of long-term complications.
Third place: Children and Young People with Diabetes Project Board by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
This Project Board (Yorkshire and Humber) brings together clinical leads from 20 sites in 14 Trusts that provide paediatric diabetes care to children and young people. By working in partnership they aim to improve the quality of care to patients, their families and carers and ensure equitable treatment wherever the child goes within the region. Agreement of the work programme and its implementation has worked extremely well and has led to high level, consistent clinical engagement, effective networking, sharing of good practice and true involvement in these initiatives.
