Innovators from Ways to Wellness’ Maternal Mental Health Project Shortlisted for the Bright Ideas in Health Awards 2024
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Ways to Wellness is delighted to be named a finalist in this year’s Bright Ideas in Health Awards.
Now in its 19th year, the prestigious awards celebrate the achievements of individuals and teams working within the NHS, industry, and academia, who have risen to the challenge of improving services provided to patients, either through technical innovation or better service delivery.
Hundreds of innovators from across the region submitted deserving entries across ten categories.
Our team behind the Maternal Mental Health Services social prescribing link worker prototype has been shortlisted in the Women’s Health category. Read more about this innovative project, that supported women and families across the North East and North Cumbria here.
The team will find out if they have been successful in their bid for the prize at the Bright Ideas in Health Awards ceremony on the 21st of November 2024 at the Hilton Hotel Newcastle Gateshead.
The full list of finalists in each of the ten categories are:
Innovative MedTech Award sponsored by Centre for Process Innovation (CPI)
Turning Every X-ray into an Opportunity to Diagnose Osteoporosis – IBEX Innovations Ltd
Meta Expanding Foam Limb Splint – ArmaTrex Ltd
Enhancing Cardiovascular Diagnostics through Automated Imaging Analysis – AIATELLA Ltd
Outstanding Industry Collaboration
Tackling the Obesity Epidemic - County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
Gateshead Secondary Prevention Service - Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
Post-Market Evaluation of Total Ankle Replacement - Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Innovation in Clinical Education sponsored by NHS Find Your Place NENC
Student-led Clinics Providing a Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Screening and Healthy Lifestyle Service - Newcastle University
T-Level Placements - Growing for the Future - North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
Flippin' the Way Health Professionals Think About, Talk About, and Treat Chronic Pain - Connect Health
Enabling Effective Learning Environments using Virtual Reality Technology - South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
Demonstrating an Impact upon Patient Safety
Reducing Invasive Procedures in Paediatric Emergency Department – The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Improving the In-patient Care of People with Parkinson’s – Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
ePMA: At the Heart of a Patient's Cardiac Catheter Lab Journey – South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Reducing Surgical Never Events with CareScan – North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
Innovation Champion Award
Speech and Language Therapy Team – South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
North East and North Cumbria Local Maternity and Neonatal System (NENC LMNS) Programme Management and Clinical Lead Team – North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (NENC ICB)
Northumbria Healthcare Lung Cancer Service – Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Speech and Language Therapy for Children and Young People – The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Digital Innovation or Transformation in Health and Social Care
Home-based Care for Parkinson's Self Management – Newcastle University
Using AI to Improve Patient Care – Navenio (Provider to Mitie at Cumberland Infirmary)
Sunderland Patient Information Portal Project – Sunderland GP Alliance
Towards Net Zero Award
Reducing Carbon Emissions by Sending Digital Letters – South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Assessing the Impact of Immediate Release Morphine Tablets Compared to Oral Morphine Solution – The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Reducing CO2 Emissions in our NHS Emergency Department – Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
Innovation and Improvement in Reducing Healthcare Inequalities Award
Improving Breast Screening and Breast Cancer Survival Rates for South Asian and Arabic Women – Northern Cancer Alliance
Primary Care Outreach Team – Hartlepool and Stockton Health
Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Programme (InHIP) Middlesbrough – Middlesbrough Council [Public Health South Tees]
Assessment of Breathing Clinic – South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
Innovative Women’s Health Award sponsored by the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System
Sunderland Women's Health Hub – North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (NENC ICB)
Cervical Screening Awareness Video – Sunderland GP Alliance
Community Menopause Care – Hartlepool and Stockton Health
VCSE Maternal Mental Health Innovation Prototypes – Ways to Wellness
Research for Local Health Needs sponsored by NIHR Research Delivery Network NENC
The WHOLE-SMI Project – Newcastle University
Increasing Access to Healthy, Affordable Food for Adults Living with Severe Mental Illness in Teesside – Teesside University
Patient Journey for Those with Pleural Mesothelioma: A Palliative Care Review – North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
The winners of the 10 categories will receive a cash prize and support from innovation experts at Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria (HI NENC) to progress their ideas.
This year’s headline sponsor is the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System (NENC ICS).
Our category sponsors are:
Centre for Process Innovation (CPI)
NHS Find Your Place North East and North Cumbria
NIHR Research Delivery Network North East and North Cumbria
Other sponsors for the Bright Ideas in Health Awards include:
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North East and North Cumbria
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
Sintons LLP
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
Teesside University
To find out more about the Bright Ideas in Health Awards and this year’s finalists, visit: https://brightideasinhealth.org.uk/