QiC Diabetes 2011 coverage
The stories behind the winning entries of Quality in Care Diabetes were picked up by media outlets across the UK following the awards. A selection of stories are reprinted below with links to original articles where possible.
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BBC
Angela Allison wins award for Diabetes Power website
A mother-of-five from Lancashire who was inspired to develop a website after her 10-year-old daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes has won an award.
Angela Allison, from Preston, set up Diabetes Power; an online forum for parents and children living with diabetes to share experiences.
It has won a Quality in Care Diabetes People's Award which highlights good ideas and shares them across the NHS.
The site also aims to raise awareness of type 1 diabetes.
Mrs Allison said she was "absolutely thrilled" to win the award.
'People power'
She said: "Since Claudia was diagnosed, we have worked towards a type 1 awareness campaign.
"To finally see the campaign moving forward means all the hours and the work have been worth it."
NHS diabetes director Anna Morton said: "Angela is a shining example of people power.
"Angela's website has provided support, answers and awareness to people with diabetes and their families and carers.
"With all the changes taking place in the health service, the NHS needs champions like Angela to help make a difference to people with diabetes."
Diabetes UK
Mother of five wins award for diabetes website
Angela Allison, a Preston mother of five, was winner of the inaugural Quality in Care (QiC) Diabetes People’s Award last week (Wednesday 17 November). Angela was inspired to develop a website after her 10-year-old daughter Claudia was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Spurred by the battles she and her husband Donald have faced since Claudia’s diagnosis on May 1 2008, and inspired by friends with diabetes, Angela set up Diabetes Power (diabetespower.org.uk), an online forum for other parents and children living with diabetes to share experiences.
The site also aims to raise awareness of Type 1 diabetes and the early warning signs. Through the site, Angela has fronted a campaign to try and eradicate diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), a potentially-life threatening complication of undiagnosed and untreated Type 1 diabetes. It also provides people with diabetes and their parents and carers with factual information and news, as well as blogs and video stories detailing what it is like to live with Type 1 diabetes day-to-day.
"Absolutely thrilled"
Angela (pictured, right, with NHS Diabetes Director Anna Morton) said, "I am absolutely thrilled to be nominated and to win the award, and what it means is hard to put into words. Since Claudia was diagnosed on May 1 2008, we have worked towards a Type 1 awareness campaign. To finally see the campaign moving forward means all the hours and the work have been worth it. If we prevent one person from being in DKA at diagnosis, the campaign will have been a success. Without the support of other parents with children with Type 1 and adults with Type 1 this campaign couldn't have started."
Using social media Angela has extended the reach of the support the site provides. Many of Angela’s advocates know her only from the Diabetes Power Facebook page. Zoe Sherwood is one such mum. When her son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, Angela pointed her in the direction of the online diabetic community.
A "truly amazing" woman
"Angela is one of those people who always wants to help everyone and is really trying to push Diabetes Power. She has helped me no end and is one of those truly amazing women. She juggles being a wife and mother, caring for her five children, some of whom have serious health issues, with supporting other people. I am delighted Angela has won the QiC Diabetes People’s Award; she really deserves recognition for what she does," said Zoe.
Angela’s awareness-raising and support activities span far beyond the internet and include petitions to Downing Street and taking part with Claudia in the Nipro Europe bike ride. The ride started on November 16 from the Diabetes Centre at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth, and saw mother and daughter cycle more than 150 miles to the NEC in Birmingham. To sponsor Allison and Claudia visit the Diabetes Power website.
"Shining example of people power"
Anna Morton said, "Angela is a shining example of people power. Angela’s website has provided support, answers and awareness to people with diabetes and their families and carers. With all the changes taking place in the health service, the NHS needs champions like Angela to help make a difference to people with diabetes."
The awards ceremony for QiC Diabetes was held at Sanofi’s headquarters in Guildford on Wednesday November 16. The programme has been developed by PMGroup with support from NHS Diabetes, Diabetes UK and Sanofi. Diabetes was chosen as the first therapy area to be covered by QiC due to the increasing need to find the best way to tackle the social and economic burden of the condition, which now affects 2.9 million people in the UK.
Diabetes Power Wins The QiC Peoples Award
Diabetes Power Wins The QIC Peoples AwardI am pround to announce that Diabetes Power has won the Quality In Care People's Award For Diabetes.
A huge thank you to Zoe Sherwood for nominating me. Without the support of my amazing friends & family I wouldn't have been able to take the Type 1 campaign forward.
I collected my award on Wednesday evening after my first day on cycling!! There will be a video and photo's to follow !!
Link to story on Angela's blog
Lancashire Evening Post
Powerful website wins QiC award
A mother from Preston who was inspired to develop a website after her 10-year-old daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes has won an award.
Angela Allison was spurred on by the battles she and husband Donald have faced since Claudia's diabetes diagnosis in May 2008.
She set up Diabetes Power, an online forum for parents and children living with diabetes to share experiences.
It has now won Angela a Quality in Care (QiC) Diabetes People's Award which highlights good ideas and shares them across the NHS so that as many patients as possible can benefit from initiatives.
The site also aims to raise awareness of Type 1 diabetes.
Angela said: "I am absolutely thrilled to be nominated and to win the award, and what it means is hard to put into words. Since Claudia was diagnosed, we have worked towards a Type 1 awareness campaign. To finally see the campaign moving forward means all the hours and the work have been worth it. Without the support of other parents with children with Type 1 and adults with Type 1 this campaign couldn't have started."
Through the site Angela has fronted a campaign to try and eradicate diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) 2, a potentially-life threatening complication of undiagnosed and untreated Type 1 diabetes.
NHS Diabetes director Anna Morton said: "Angela is a shining example of people power. Angela's website has provided support, answers and awareness to people with diabetes and their families and carers. With all the changes taking place in the health service, the NHS needs champions like Angela to help make a difference to people with diabetes."
The QiC Diabetes awards was held at the headquarters of healthcare company Sanofi, in Guildford, on November 16. The awards programme has been developed by PMGroup with support from NHS Diabetes, charity Diabetes UK and Sanofi.
Link to story on Lancashire Evening Post website
NHS Diabetes
Quality in Care Winners Revealed
Almost 60 examples of excellence and innovation in diabetes care were highlighted at the Quality in Care Diabetes awards ceremony.
The winners and runners up of the 15 categories in the programme, supported by NHS Diabetes, were announced on Wednesday, November 16.
Successful care initiatives, partnerships and clinical service redesigns from hospitals, the community and the pharmaceutical industry were all rewarded.
More than 120 people attended the presentation held at Sanofi’s headquarters in Guildford. The programme has been developed by the PMGroup with support from Diabetes UK and Sanofi as well as NHS Diabetes.
Anna Morton, NHS Diabetes Director, said: “The awards have provided a unique platform to showcase good practice and innovation from across the country. We are all working under increased pressure and uncertainty and the examples highlighted have shown how despite adversity high quality diabetes can still be achieved. To ensure the learning is not lost, NHS Diabetes will be sharing the good practice with the diabetes community through our series of specialist networks for healthcare professionals.”
Quality in Care is a series of programmes aimed at recognising quality and productivity in line with the Department of Health agenda around QIPP.
The vision for QiC is to highlight good ideas, whether from an individual, a team within an organisation or a collaborative effort between organisations, recognise the best of them and share them as widely as possible across the NHS.
NHS Diabetes newsletter about QiC Diabetes
Diabetes Choices
QiC awards: recognising the best in diabetes care
Health care professionals, individuals and organisations who are working towards better care for people with diabetes were honoured this week at the first Quality In Care (QiC) Diabetes Awards.
Launched by the publishing company, PM Group, and supported by NHS Diabetes and Diabetes UK, the awards attracted more than 60 entries from hospital teams, healthcare businesses and charities.
The ceremony, held at Sanofi Diabetes’s HQ in Guildford, was very well attended and a reminder that, despite all the bad news we hear about patchy care for people with diabetes in the NHS, there is a great deal of excellent work going on. As Anna Morton, director of NHS Diabetes, and Simon O’Neill of Diabetes UK both said at the event, there is an urgent need to share best practice and to stop reinventing the wheel where good ideas and effective schemes already exist.
Link to story on Diabetes Choices
About My Area - Portsmouth
Portsmouth Diabetes Department Recognised for Improving Patient Care
The Diabetes Department at Queen Alexandra Hospital has received national recognition for their ongoing work to improve care and treatment for patients with diabetes.
The team won the silver award in the NHS Team of the Year Working in Diabetes category making them the highest diabetes team based in an acute trust to win an award in this category and they were also awarded the bronze award in the Best Emergency or In-patient care Initiative category. Both awards were given at this year's Quality in Care Diabetes Awards.
Both honours were awarded to the team for the Diabetes In-Patient Prospective Service (DIPPS), which provides a dedicated team in different areas of the hospital to improve the education of ward staff and doctors and to prevent incidence of hypoglycaemia (an abnormally low level of sugar in the blood).
Since the team was introduced in 2009, staff are more confident in assessing and managing patients with diabetes. A patient's length of stay has reduced by about 1.4 days and patients are prevented from being re-admitted. Additionally, patients are half as likely to suffer from hypoglycaemia while in hospital and are less likely to develop hospital-associated infections.
Partha Kar, Clinical Director of the Diabetes at Queen Alexandra Hospital, said: "As a team, we are thrilled to have this national recognition for all the hard work and dedication put in by all those involved in the DIPPS project. We set up a diabetes inpatient programme within four specific areas in the hospital and our work has shown improvements against performance indicators and in particular length of stay, re-admission rates and hospital-associated infection rate. It has come as the result of a long-term strategy to make hospital a more 'diabetes-aware' environment, and we are hopeful that this will allow us to extend the same level of prospective care to all areas within the trust before long."
The team, in collaboration with NSH Portsmouth, was also shortlisted for the Best Initiative Supporting Health Care category.
Link to story on About My Area
Politics.co.uk
Diabetes UK: Mother of five wins award for diabetes website
Preston Mum Angela Allison, winner of the Quality in Care (QiC) Diabetes People’s Award last week (Wednesday 17 November), was inspired to develop a website after her 10-year-old daughter Claudia was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes[1]. Spurred by the battles she and her husband Donald have faced since Claudia’s diagnosis on May 1 2008, and inspired by friends with diabetes, Angela set up Diabetes Power (diabetespower.org.uk), an online forum for other parents and children living with diabetes to share experiences.
High-res images of NHS Diabetes Director Anna Morten, Award Winner Angela Allison and daughter, Claudia, available to download here
The site also aims to raise awareness of Type 1 diabetes and the early warning signs. Through the site Angela has fronted a campaign to try and eradicate diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)2, a potentially-life threatening complication of undiagnosed and untreated Type 1 diabetes. It also provides people with diabetes and their parents and carers with factual information and news, as well as blogs and video stories which detail what it is like to live with Type 1 diabetes day to day.
Angela said: “I am absolutely thrilled to be nominated and to win the award, and what it means is hard to put into words. Since Claudia was diagnosed on May 1 2008, we have worked towards a Type 1 awareness campaign. To finally see the campaign moving forward means all the hours and the work have been worth it. If we prevent one person from being in DKA at diagnosis, the campaign will have been a success. Without the support of other parents with children with Type 1 and adults with Type 1 this campaign couldn't have started.”
Using social media Angela has extended the reach of the support the site provides. Many of Angela’s advocates know her only from the Diabetes Power Facebook page. Zoe Sherwood is one such Mum. When her son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes Angela pointed her in the direction of the online diabetic community.
“Angela is one of those people who always wants to help everyone and is really trying to push ‘Diabetes Power’. She has helped me no end and is one of those truly amazing women. She juggles being a wife and mother, caring for her five children some of whom have serious health issues, with supporting other people. I am delighted Angela has won the QiC Diabetes People’s Award; she really deserves recognition for what she does,” said Zoe.
Angela’s awareness raising and support activities span far beyond the internet and include petitions to Downing Street and taking part with Claudia in the Nipro Europe bike ride that started on November 16 from the Diabetes Centre at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth and saw mother and daughter cycle more than 150 miles to the NEC in Birmingham. To sponsor Allison and Claudia visit www.diabetespower.org.uk/index.php/the-ride
NHS Diabetes Director Anna Morton said: “Angela is a shining example of people power. Angela’s website has provided support, answers and awareness to people with diabetes and their families and carers. With all the changes taking place in the health service, the NHS needs champions like Angela to help make a difference to people with diabetes.”
The awards ceremony for QiC Diabetes was held at Sanofi’s headquarters in Guildford on Wednesday November 16. The programme has been developed by PMGroup with support from NHS Diabetes, Diabetes UK and Sanofi. Diabetes was chosen as the first therapy area to be covered by QiC due to the increasing need to find the best way to tackle the social and economic burden of the condition which now affects 2.9 million people in the UK.
Link to story on politics.co.uk
Gumsaver.co.uk
QiC Diabetes Finalists
16/11/11
We are proud to announce that GUMSAVER has been shortlisted as finalists for the category of Best Initiative Supporting Self Care. Dr Hani, Dr Rima & Rob Dolton (who is also a Diabetic) are on the way down to the awards ceremony now.
This recognition is extremely encouraging because it shows that there is an urgent need for more awareness and an improvement in the way patients can self treat. This is what GUMSAVER is all about, enabling the world to self treat and prevent Gum Disease, Gingivitis, Periodontal Disease and related systemic diseases.
http://www.qualityincare.org/awards/diabetes/qic_diabetes_finalists
17/11/11
I cannot express my gratitude for the recognition awarded to us by the QiC Programme and were encouraged by comments from judges for what is a very early stage startup business. We look forward to engaging Diabetic groups in the near future to promote positive oral health outcomes. (Dr Hani Mostafa)
"Without doubt Diabetes is one of the greatest health threats of the 20th Century. In 2010 it was estimated that 3.1 million people in England have Diabetes, around 7.4 % of the total population. By 2030 the estimate is 4.6 million, almost one in ten."
Anna Morton
Director, NHS Diabetes
Judge, QiC
http://www.qualityincare.org/awards/diabetes/qic_diabetes_results/best_initiative_supporting_self-care
Link to story on gumsaver.co.uk
Whittington Health
Whittington Health awarded for Co-Creating Health initiative
Whittington Health is delighted to announce that we have won a national Diabetes Quality in Care Award for Co-creating Health.
The category, which recognised the best initiative for supporting self care was particularly praised for the way in which the scheme worked directly with patients to improve the quality of care.
This particular category was the most competitive, with the highest number of entries and the largest number of finalists, and it is a great testament to the initiative and those who have helped implement the scheme that have made Co-creative health such a success.
The Quality in Care programme enthused:
''Co-creating Health aims to transform the patient–clinician interaction into a collaborative partnership and to transform healthcare for people with long-term conditions by making self-management an integral part of care. At every stage of its development patients have been fully involved and are participating in a self-management programme, building skills to self-manage. Clinicians are undertaking an advanced development programme to develop consultation skills. Services are being improved to support self-management, and skills and learning are being spread and shared.'
Dr Maria Barnard, Lead Consultant in Diabetes said on receiving the award: ‘I have been constantly amazed at the amount of time, effort and energy people have given freely to this project.’ ‘And I think it is important to recognise that this is not just those who are directly involved, It's everyone involved in the front line, caring for patients with diabetes, using the CCH skills, developing service improvements, collecting data and our local people living with diabetes’
Link to story on Whittington Health
University of York and Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust
University of York and Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust wins Diabetes Care Award
The Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust and University of York were among the award winners at Quality in Care (QiC) Diabetes – the first in a new series of programmes to highlight good healthcare practice in key therapy areas in the UK. The Trust’s ‘Insulin Pump Workbook’ project (developed in conjunction with the Department of Health Sciences' Insulin Pump Therapy module) won the award for ‘Specialist group - Children and young people’ which recognises good practice in the priority area of children and young people.
The Winners
The Leeds’ Children’s Diabetes Team has, with support from parents and children, and in conjunction with the establishment of the University’s Insulin Pump module, developed an Insulin Pump Workbook. The workbook is suitable for use by staff, parents and older children/teenagers, enables units across the region to fulfil the NICE guidelines for the introduction of insulin pumps in children, starting at a high level of expertise and minimising the early learning curve found with the introduction of new technologies. It has required minimal investment combined with close understanding and good working relationships between PCTs/Commissioners and the Y&H Children’s Diabetes Network.
The Awards
The awards ceremony for QiC Diabetes was held at Sanofi’s headquarters in Guildford on Wednesday November 16. The programme has been developed by PMGroup with support from NHS Diabetes, Diabetes UK and Sanofi.
Diabetes was chosen as the first therapy area to be covered by QiC due to the increasing need to find the best way to tackle the social and economic burden of the condition which now affects 2.8 million people in the UK (1). A recent report from the NHS Information Centre showed diabetes subscriptions now account for 8.4 per cent of the NHS net bill for primary care drugs in England, with the cost of prescribing increasing by 41.1 per cent to £725m over the 2010/11 period from £513m in 2005/06 (2).
A full list of results, including the winner of the ‘People’s Award’ to celebrate an individual who has gone out of their way to make a difference in diabetes, can be found at http://www.qualityincare.org/awards/diabetes/qic_diabetes_winners
Simon O’Neill, Director of Care, Information and Advocacy at Diabetes UK, said: “We’re very excited about the QiC Diabetes programme. This is a crucial project and one through which we can celebrate those who really make a difference to the lives of people with diabetes. There is a great deal of progress being made out there by many clinicians through various initiatives and it is really important this good work is highlighted and shared. We look forward to taking this programme into 2012 and build on the success so far.”
Anna Morton, NHS Diabetes Director , said: “The awards have provided a unique platform to showcase good practice and innovation from across the country. We are all working under increased pressure and uncertainty and the examples highlighted have shown how despite adversity high quality diabetes can still be achieved. To ensure the learning is not lost, NHS Diabetes will be sharing the good practice with the diabetes community through our series of specialist networks for healthcare professionals.”
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Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust
Workbook for young people with diabetes wins top award for Leeds Children’s Diabetes Team
The Children’s Diabetes Team at Leeds Teaching Hospitals has won a prestigious award for its work - in conjunction with the University of York - to develop a workbook designed to help NHS staff, youngsters and their families cope with the demands of using an insulin pump to control their blood glucose levels when they have diabetes.
The award has been made by Quality in Care (QiC) Diabetes, which aims to highlight good healthcare practice in key therapy areas in the UK, and the Leeds award recognised good practice in the priority area of children and young people.
The workbook is suitable for use by hospital staff, parents and older children/teenagers and will be used in diabetes units across the Yorkshire region to fulfil the NICE guidelines for the introduction of insulin pumps for children. It is intended to make the introduction of this new technology easier and ensure everyone involved in this form of therapy has sufficient information to make pump therapy successful.
Dr Fiona Campbell, Lead Clinician for Paediatrics at Leeds Children’s Hospital said: The Diabetes Team are delighted to have won this award. We started our Insulin Pump Programme ten years ago and we wanted to use all our experience gathered over this time to help other diabetes teams in the Yorkshire and Humber region introduce this therapy to the children and families that they care for and felt that writing this workbook would be the best way to achieve this.”
Diabetes was chosen as the first therapy area to be covered by QiC due to the increasing need to find the best way to tackle the social and economic burden of the condition, which now affects 2.8 million people in the UK.
Simon O’Neill, Director of Care, Information and Advocacy at Diabetes UK, said: “We’re very excited about the QiC Diabetes programme. This is a crucial project and one through which we can celebrate those who really make a difference to the lives of people with diabetes. There is a great deal of progress being made out there by many clinicians through various initiatives and it is really important this good work is highlighted and shared.”
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Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
Diabetes Department recognised for improving patient care
The Diabetes Department at Queen Alexandra Hospital has received national recognition for their ongoing work to improve care and treatment for patients with diabetes.
The team won the silver award in the NHS Team of the Year Working in Diabetes category making them to the highest diabetes team based in an acute trust to win an award in this category and they were also awarded the bronze award in the Best Emergency or In-patient care Initiative category. Both awards were given at this year’s Quality in Care Diabetes Awards.
Both honours were awarded to the team for the Diabetes In-Patient Prospective Service (DIPPS), which provides a dedicated team in different areas of the hospital to improve the education of ward staff and doctors and to prevent incidence of hypoglycaemia (an abnormally low level of sugar in the blood).
Since the team was introduced in 2009, staff are more confident in assessing and managing patients with diabetes. A patient’s length of stay has reduced by about 1.4 days and patients are prevented from being re-admitted. Additionally, patients are half as likely to suffer from hypoglycaemia while in hospital and are less likely to develop hospital-associated infections.
Partha Kar, Clinical Director of the Diabetes at Queen Alexandra Hospital, said: “As a team, we are thrilled to have this national recognition for all the hard work and dedication put in by all those involved in the DIPPS project. We set up a diabetes inpatient programme within four specific areas in the hospital and our work has shown improvements against performance indicators and in particular length of stay, re-admission rates and hospital-associated infection rate. It has come as the result of a long-term strategy to make hospital a more 'diabetes-aware' environment, and we are hopeful that this will allow us to extend the same level of prospective care to all areas within the trust before long.”
The team, in collaboration with NHS Portsmouth, was also shortlisted for the Best Initiative Supporting Health Care category.
Link to story on Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
Portsmouth's The News
Queen Alexandra Hospital diabetes team win award
The diabetes department at Queen Alexandra Hospital has received national recognition for its work to improve care and treatment.
The team won the silver award in the NHS Team of the Year Working in Diabetes category at the Quality in Care Diabetes Awards.
It was also awarded the bronze award in the Best Emergency or In-patient care Initiative category.
Salford Royal Foundation Trust
Diabetes Care Call Team win QiC Award
An initiative in Salford has been recognised for its work in reducing the amount of people in the city being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
Salford Royal’s Diabetes Care Call is a telephone-based service already available for people with diabetes which has been further developed to support people diagnosed with Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT) and are most at risk from developing type 2 diabetes. This new Care Call development provides people with a six-month programme of education and motivational support which is delivered by a team of health advisors using the telephone.
Care Call won the Quality in Care (QiC) award for ‘Best Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Initiative’. The awards were the first in a new series of programmes from QiC to highlight good healthcare practice in key therapy areas in the UK.
The IGT programme was developed by Salford Diabetes team in conjunction with the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care for Greater Manchester (GM CLAHRC). Whilst the Care Call Service is now provided by Salford Royal, at the time of the pilot it was managed by NHS Salford.
Katherine Grady, Manager, Diabetes Care Call, said: “Receiving this award is fantastic recognition for the hard work everyone has put in to developing a care call service for people with IGT and shows how different organisations can successfully work together to help prevent diabetes.
“Designing a service to help prevent people in Salford getting diabetes was a challenge but the expertise of Salford’s community diabetes team helped us to develop a six month structured proactive lifestyle education and motivational support service.
“The service was well received by patients and proved especially successful in helping hard to reach patients. The majority of people who took part in the programme reported an increased understanding of IGT and said they felt much more confident about how to reduce their own risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
“GP practices who referred patients to the service also gave very positive feedback, reporting they felt confident that their patients were receiving the information, support and motivation that would help them to take control and understand their condition.
“Working with Linda Savas and her colleagues from the GM CLAHRC enabled us to put research into practice through developing our service as well as being able to evaluate rigorously the impact on patients and service provision.”
Professor Ruth Boaden, GM CLAHRC Deputy Director and Lead for Implementation, said: “This award is recognition of the excellent results we’ve had with the IGT Care Call programme so far. Of the 55 people who took part in the programme, 26 (52%) had glucose levels that reverted to normal, and 38 (75%) had a confirmed average weight loss of 4.8kg (5.3% of the average body weight) at the end of the six months.”
“Providing an intervention before people develop type 2 diabetes saves people from the many possible complications of diabetes later in life as well as the need to take medication. This also means it costs the NHS less in the longer term. Patients like the flexible service delivered by phone that motivates and enables them to make positive changes to their lifestyles around diet and exercise.”
An expansion of this scheme will start in 2012 to other parts of Salford, so that more patients can benefit. The Trust will continue working with GM CLAHRC to evaluate this roll-out as well as following up the patients from the pilot project to see how they can best be supported to maintain their weight loss and health gains.
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Nitro Digital blog
News Flash from the Inaugural PM Group Diabetes QIC (Quality In Care) Awards at Sanofi UK
Now, I have been to a few awards ceremonies in my time and obviously the ones you win at go down in legend and the ones you don’t get parked in the darker bits of the grey matter. So, attending the inaugural Diabetes Qic awards was a refreshing change and really rewarding experience given there were no possible gongs to be won.
Why? – Well a number of things. Let’s start with scene setting and build the story. We all know (but perhaps we don’t call it out enough) that diabetes is the great stalking threat to our health system. It’s chronic, emotive, comes in many forms with many consequences and is often ignored. I think a quote from Simon O’Neil, one of the host judges from Diabetes UK, summed up the ‘Why’ are these awards necessary when he said he only ‘got 3 hours of care from the health system a year and provided 800 hours himself’ (Or words to that effect – sorry Simon!).
With that in mind, I loved the sentiment behind the awards which was to showcase and recognise innovative and solutions coming from within the NHS and the community. Now this always gets me going as it’s about open innovation and about open collaboration but it’s a sentiment that does not often deliver. So I was blown away by what followed.
To a full house (standing room only) in the Sanofi UK atrium in Guildford we had a fine introduction from Caroline Horwood, director of Sanofi Diabetes, in the UK and Ireland followed by David Fisher the MD of the PM group and Anna Morton head of NHS diabetes. The audience were HCPs and community members from all over the country and I think it’s a testament to the organisers that they were able to bring so many together. Hosting the awards within Sanofi was a great touch too as I personally believe that greater collaboration between industry and clinicians is the only way to manage the impact of diabetes on the people involved and the system that supports them.
So I think you can tell from that just what a breadth of entrants there were, but what does it tell us about innovation in the UK healthcare community? Personally, I was amazed by the genuine groundswell of innovation that is occurring. These are almost all bottom up activities done on a budget with openness at their heart and designed to share and scale. It’s open innovation at its best. Getting to grips with diabetes will be a long road and the road needs to be lit by loads of bright spots of innovation along the way and I really hope that bringing everyone together in this way will brighten the way and kick off loads and loads of sparks of activity along the way.
Last but not least, I’d like to say a big thank you to Becky Reeve from Sanofi and Louise Bellamy and Anneliese Cameron from the PM group for the invitation.
Link to story on Nitro Digital
National awards for diabetes work
Doctors, nurses and researchers have picked up national awards for work in improving diabetes care.
Top of the tree was the work of researchers at Leicester's hospitals and the University of Leicester.
They won gold in the Best Screening or Early Detection category of the national Quality in Care Awards, run in conjunction with NHS Diabetes and the pharmaceutical industry.
The award was made in recognition of a questionnaire developed by professors Kamlesh Khunti and Melanie Davies, from the University of Leicester, and used by the national charity Diabetes UK and in GP surgeries to help predict a person's risk of developing type 2 diabetes within the next 10 years.
It has been used successfully at the charity's roadshows and a variety of campaigns to raise awareness of diabetes.
The team scooped silver in the Best Type 2 Prevention category for its Walking Away from Diabetes project.
Team member Bernie Stribling said: "It is great recognition for the whole team to have done so well in these awards.
"The 'walking away' project is a three-hour education programme to help people at risk from developing diabetes."
The Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust picked up first place in the Innovation category for developing an e-learning programme to help staff supporting South Asian patients suffering mental health problems and diabetes.
Bill O'Leary, from the National Institute for Health Research which supported the awards, said: "We are delighted these innovative approaches to preventing and finding diabetes have won these awards."
June James, a nurse consultant in diabetes at Leicester's hospitals, won second place in the Best Safe Care for Patients initiative for a e-learning programme she developed to improve insulin prescribing, which is now used by health care workers nationwide.
The programme was also voted runner-up in the Health Service Journal Patient Safety awards.
Ms James said: "There are a lot of different types of insulin with very similar names and we developed the e-learning programme to reduce the chances of errors being made."
Leicester's hospitals also took second place in the Community Initiative of the Year category for providing a community service.
This means that GPs can refer patients who are having problems controlling their diabetes to clinics held in GP surgeries and health centres, rather than Leicester Royal Infirmary.
The service won third place in the Best Integrated Care Initiative section of the awards.
Link to story on Leicester Mercury
Angela scoops People's Award at ceremony
Guildford played host to the national Diabetes Awards last Wednesday as people gathered for a ceremony at a pharmaceutical company's headquarters in the town centre.
A spokesman for the Quality in Care (QiC) Diabetes Awards said the reason the event is held in Guildford at Sanofi's offices is that the company is one of the main supporters, alongside NHS Diabetes and Diabetes UK.
He said: "One of QiC's main aims is topromote partnership working between the life sciences industry, NHS and the third sector.
"There is also a strong diabetes community in Guildford, including the Guildford and South West Voluntary Group and Surrey, as with everywhere else in the country, faces increasing prevalence of the condition.
"According to the NHS atlas of variation, Surrey is in the bottom half of PCTs with regards to the percentage of people with diabetes receiving nine care processes. 'This suggests a need to improve care for diabetes in the area, something that QiC is at the forefront of."
Mother-of-five Angela Allison was the winner of the People's Award for her work in setting up a website after her 10-year-old daughter Claudia was diagnosed with Type one diabetes.
Spurred on by the battles she and her husband Donald have faced since Claudia's diagnosis on May 1 2008, and inspired by friends with diabetes, Angela set up Diabetes Power, an online forum for people to share experiences. The site also aims to raise awareness of Type one diabetes and the early warning signs.
Angela said: "I am absolutely thrilled to Anna Morton hugs Angela Allison after Angela discovers she has won the People's Award at the Diabetes Awards in Guildford on November 16. be nominated and to win the award, and
what it means is hard to put into words.
"Since Claudia was diagnosed on May 1, 2008, we have worked towards a Type one awareness campaign.
"To finally see the campaign moving forward means all the hours and the work have been worth it.
"Without the support of other parents with children with Type one and adults with Type one this campaign could not have started."
NHS Diabetes director Anna Morton said: "Angela is a shining example of people power."
"Angela's website has provided support, answers and awareness to people with diabetes and their families and carers.
"With all the changes taking place in the health service, the NHS needs champions like Angela to help make a difference to people with diabetes."
To visit Angela's website visit www.diabetespower.org.uk.
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