Issue 6 - The Great Western Hospital

Workforce
Quality and Safety Award
Educational
Supervisor and
Mentor Award
This award recognises staff who take on the
responsibility to develop others to reach their full
potential. Nominations were for any individuals
who educate, mentor or support others to help
them develop new skills, meet competencies and
improve their confidence with the overall objective
of improving services or patient care.
Winner:
Helen Good, Community Children’s
Outreach Nurse
Selecting for this award looked at a range of quality indicators such as MRSA screening, mandatory
training, patient falls and patient complaints to see which ward had performed the best.
Winner:
Aldbourne Ward
Aldbourne, which cares for patients who have undergone hip, knee and spinal operations, came top in
this category.
Rachel Palfreeman, Senior Sister on Aldbourne Ward, said: “In meeting these quality indicators
we make sure it isn’t about box ticking, as we recognise that behind these figures there are individual
patients with individual needs who we try to always do our best for. It’s fantastic for the whole team to be
recognised in this way as working on a busy ward like Aldbourne requires the support and teamwork of
dozens of people all pulling in the same direction and it is great to see that effort paying off.”
Finalists: Jupiter Ward; Intensive Care Unit.
Good Ideas Award
The award recognises an individual or team that has demonstrated innovative qualities and original
thinking which has led to direct service improvement and/or cost saving. The common theme of all the
finalists is how a small idea can make a big difference.
Winner:
Medical Workforce Team
The team won the award for their work in
saving over £1.3m on agency Doctor spend,
which they achieved through streamlining
the way locum doctors are recruited. The
money saved is reinvested back into patient
care.
Elaine Nash, Medical Workforce Team
Leader said: “It’s an honour to receive an
award like this. It’s great recognition for
those of us who work behind the scenes to
support frontline services and I am delighted that we have been able to save a significant sum of money
which can be reinvested back into patient services. It’s a great example of how doing things in a smarter
way can save money and improve the service we offer.”
Helen received the award for her work in guiding
student nurses to develop new skills managing
this work alongside her day job on the busy
Children’s Unit.
Helen said: “I feel very privileged, not only to
be nominated but in winning this award. My job
now is as a full time Children’s Outreach Nurse
but I have continued to keep my responsibilities as
the Student Link Nurse for the Children’s Ward. I
feel that it is so important to help and guide our
student nurses today, as I have been doing, as
today’s student nurses are our future.”
Finalists: Emma Shaw, Staff Nurse, Dove
Unit; Dr Carolyn Mackinlay, Consultant
Physician, Respiratory Medicine.
Finalist: Pilot Podiatry Pathway Team.
6 6 Autumn 2011