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Mashup Score: 1BMJ Awards 2021: Quality improvement team of the year - 3 year(s) ago
This year’s finalists have found impressive ways to improve the quality of healthcare delivery and patient experience, finds Matthew Limb ### Reducing harms from preventable errors “Never events” are serious incidents leading to patient harm that are wholly preventable if appropriate safety recommendations are followed. Despite their preventability, some 364 never events occurred in England…
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Matthew Limb reports on projects to expand access to therapeutic gardening and to reduce the effect of anaesthesia and other healthcare on climate change “As a GP and keen gardener, I have long been aware of the benefits of gardening and horticulture for my own well-being, but more importantly for that of my patients,” says Richard Claxton. Successive lockdowns during the pandemic have…
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Mashup Score: 3BMJ Awards 2021: Respiratory team of the year - 3 year(s) ago
Perhaps unsurprisingly, three of the shortlisted respiratory teams have innovated in response to the covid-19 pandemic, but there is also work on managing tracheostomies and tuberculosis. Matthew Limb reports Experience of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic led clinicians to plan to deliver the majority of respiratory support in wave 2 through non-invasive methods. A respiratory high…
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Mashup Score: 3BMJ Awards 2021: Respiratory team of the year - 3 year(s) ago
Perhaps unsurprisingly, three of the shortlisted respiratory teams have innovated in response to the covid-19 pandemic, but there is also work on managing tracheostomies and tuberculosis. Matthew Limb reports Experience of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic led clinicians to plan to deliver the majority of respiratory support in wave 2 through non-invasive methods. A respiratory high…
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Mashup Score: 5Home - The BMJ Awards - 3 year(s) ago
The BMJ Awards are the UK’s premier healthcare awards recognising the inspirational work done by doctors and their teams in the NHS and private practice.
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Mashup Score: 3Home - The BMJ Awards - 3 year(s) ago
The BMJ Awards are the UK’s premier healthcare awards recognising the inspirational work done by doctors and their teams in the NHS and private practice.
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It's less than two weeks until we celebrate the incredible work by healthcare teams in the past year. We can't wait to see our finalists get the recognition they deserve. Join us at #TheBMJAwards virtual ceremony on 29 September. Register attendance here https://t.co/sfvCPYORJQ https://t.co/c8WyVqwGZd
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Mashup Score: 4BMJ Awards 2021: Mental health team of the year - 3 year(s) ago
This year’s teams have focused on the physical as well as mental health needs of patients, evaluated telepsychiatry during the pandemic, and made it easier for children to get support. Matthew Limb reports “Mortality rates in patients with a severe mental illness are excessively high—they die up to 20 years earlier than the general population,” says Dolly Sud, project lead and senior mental…
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Mashup Score: 8BMJ Awards 2021: Mental health team of the year - 3 year(s) ago
This year’s teams have focused on the physical as well as mental health needs of patients, evaluated telepsychiatry during the pandemic, and made it easier for children to get support. Matthew Limb reports “Mortality rates in patients with a severe mental illness are excessively high—they die up to 20 years earlier than the general population,” says Dolly Sud, project lead and senior mental…
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Mashup Score: 1The BMJ Awards 2021: Workforce and wellbeing team of the year - 3 year(s) ago
Staff wellbeing has been a particular problem in the past year, making the support provided by these teams even more important. Matthew Limb reports Psychological consequences of work such as burnout and post-traumatic stress disorder were prevalent before the pandemic, but covid-19 has amplified pressures and burdens on staff. “Our project intervenes to alleviate psychological distress and…
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Mashup Score: 6BMJ Awards 2021: Stroke and cardiovascular team of the year - 3 year(s) ago
The nominated teams have streamlined care and adopted new ways of working to improve services, reports Helen Jones In March 2020 at the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic, it became clear that it was not going to be possible to undertake elective transcatheter aortic valve implantations (TAVI) at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. “Patients with untreated aortic stenosis have a…
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We're excited to bring you the finalist projects in #TheBMJAwards Quality Improvement Team of the Year. Read their exceptional work here and join on the 29 September as we announce the winners https://t.co/nefl66c68P https://t.co/S3N1KQ2I1n