HQIP Clinical Audit Awards 2011: And the nominees are...

HQIP is proud to announce the list of nominees for the 2011 Clinical Audit Awards, set to take place on Monday 10 October at Ramada Manchester Piccadilly as part of the first day of the two-day HQIP Annual Conference.

A total of eight organisations have been shortlisted for the five awards, including the only double-nominee - South London and Maudsley NHS FT, which has been nominated in the Patient and Public Involvement and in the Sustained Improvement categories.

2011 HQIP Clinical Audit Awards: full list of nominees

Creating or improving efficiencies

• South East Essex PCT - Audit of selecting appropriate recall intervals for patients in general dental practices - A collaborative audit between NHS South East Essex & University of Essex
• Stockport NHS Foundation Trust - The Introduction of fetal fibronectin testing as a result of the comparison of two audits of the management of threatened preterm labour
• West Middlesex University Hospitals - Assessing the impact of implementing a hospital discharge COPD care bundle on the respiratory ward at West Middlesex University hospital

Local improvement following national clinical audit

• Northumbria Healthcare Trust - Hip Fracture Quality Improvement Programme ( Hip Qip)
• The Royal Wolverampton Hospital NHS Trust - The Case Mix Programme (CMP) Audit: Run by ICNARC (Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre)
• University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust - Clinical Audit Programme for Stroke and TIA 2009

Partnership working

• Somerset PCT - Audit of physical health checks for people with severe mental illness
• NHS Bournemouth and Poole - Dental Practice Improvement
• NHS South of Tyne and Wear Community Health Services - Evaluating the New role of the Older Persons Specialist Nurse (OPSN) within Gateshead Care Homes

Patient and public involvement

• Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust - A Stroke of Genius
• South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust - Crisis Helpline Evaluation
• Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - Involving patients with learning disabilities

Sustained improvement

• South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust - Audit of antipsychotic use in in-patients with a diagnosis of dementia
• Bradford District Care Trust - Audit of High Dose Antipsychotic prescribing on Inpatient Wards
• Cambridgeshire Community Services - Exceeding national targets: using audit to demonstrate sustained improvement in over 60,000 patient contacts in the nurse lead Fenland Anticoagulation Nursing Service (FANS) within CCS NHS Trust