
Patient Safety Hero 2025 award announced
Published: 02 Jun 2025
The winners of the Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025 Patient Safety Hero award have been announced! Congratulations to:
WINNER: Neonatal Occupational Therapy to Improve Positioning Practices (Sarah Willis); Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
JOINT RUNNER-UP: Safety Planning Audit in Liaison Psychiatry 2023-2024 (Mosab Elbasuny & Thomas Manders); Liaison Psychiatry-Torbay Hospital, Devon Partnership Trust
A multi-site clinical audit focuses on patients presenting to Emergency Departments with suicidal ideation and self-harm — a high risk group. A robust five-cycle audit was conducted from June 2023 to December 2024, with clear outcome measures, tracking the inclusion of four core safety plan domains: coping strategies, support networks, means restriction, and service provision and follow-up. Interventions included a structured safety plan template, staff training, and MDT feedback loops, and results showed a substantial and sustained improvement in documentation quality and consistency.
JOINT RUNNER-UP: In-utero transfer (Dr Swasti Jain, Dr Subhasree Biswas, Mr Pradumna Jamjute, Claire Winthrop); West Cumberland Hospital, North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Trust
This clinical audit evaluated the timeliness and quality of in-utero transfers for women ≤30 weeks pregnant with threatened preterm labour, critical to reducing neonatal mortality in this setting. It revealed suboptimal compliance with key elements of the national transfer care bundle, highlighting significant gaps in clinical practice and resulting in recommendations for improvement. These included ensuring availability of fFN kits, consistent documentation of QUIPP scores, inter-unit communication on steroid regimes, and re-categorisation of ambulance categories.
Clinical Audit Heroes awards
This award is one of seven categories in this year’s Clinical Audit Heroes Awards. The winners of each main category award are announced at a series of daily Lunch & Learn events, hosted by N-QI-CAN, on each of the award topics from 2-6 June 2025; while two new commendation awards are announced at an event on Friday 6th June.
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR ALL EVENTS – Details of these events (and recordings for those who wish to listen again, once they have taken place) – in addition to news of all the winners and a range of other events and activities – can be found on the Clinical Audit Awareness Week webpage. Highlights include:
- Mon 2 June, 2–2.30pm: Live Q&A on HQIP’s X account – Balancing learning in clinical audit and quality improvement with patient safety
- Wed 4 June, 1.45–2.30pm: Webinar and Q&A – Better cardiovascular care through data Register here
- Thurs 5 June, 2.15–3.00pm: Webinar – Data-Driven Improvements in Maternity Care: A Regional Medical Director’s Perspective Register here
Further information about the awards: Clinical Audit Heroes awards.
Clinical Audit Awareness Week
In addition to the award announcements and the above events (at which the award announcements are made), there is a packed agenda of FREE events, activities and resources across the week of 2-6 June 2025. Find out more: Clinical Audit Awareness Week.
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