Joint 1st - Out of Your Head: Guides for People Who Use Drugs and Have Experienced Mental Illness - Mark Holland, Consultant Nurse - Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust
Joint 1st - Patient Risk Assessment Algorithm (PRAA) Edutainment Scenario - Professor Martin Leuwer, Professor and Chair of Anaesthesia - Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trusts
3rd - Rapid Emergency Stroke Pathways: OrgaNised Systems and Education (RESPONSE) - Andrew Higgins, Nurse Consultant; Karen Robinson, Nurse Consultant; Stuart Durham, Consultant and Clinical Director - Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended - Creative Intervention Training Responses for Untoward Situations (CITRUS) - Ian Hall, Learning and Development Manager - Calderstones NHS Trust
1st - Nurse-Led Chest Pain Management with AngioTENS - David Trenbath, Clinical Nurse Specialist - Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust
2nd - The StationMaster: A Device to Improve the Accuracy of Station Assessment in Labour - Dr Andrew Weeks, Senior Lecturer/Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics; Dr Gillian Murray, Research and Business Services and Dr Tony Rhodes, Department of Engineering - Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust / University of Liverpool
3rd - Development of Diagnostic Screening from Dried Blood Spots for HCV, HBV, HIV and Syphillis - Benjamin Brown, Trainee Clinical Scientist; the staff of the Clinical Virology Laboratory, Manchester Medical Microbiology Partnership; Dr Harry, Consultant Gastroenterologist; Dr Vilar, Consultant in Infectious Diseases; Dr Duffel, Consultant in Communicable Disease Medicine, the members of the Greater Manchester Hepatitis C Strategy Group - Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals NHS Trust
Highly Commended - Revolutionary Comfort Casting - A Lightweight, Bedside Solution for Diabetic Foot Disease - Monica Berry, Research Podiatrist; Professor Phillip Wiles, Consultant Physician/Honorary Professor; Louise Stuart, Consultant Podiatrist - Penine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Highly Commended - Locksafe Commode - Timothy Latchford, Senior Staff Nurse, and the CCU/ MHDU Team - Tameside and Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust
1st - Breaking the Sound Barrier: Using Voice Recognition Software with Deafened People in the NF2 Clinic - Rachel Belk, Registered Genetic Counsellor Specialising in Deafness; Professor Gareth Evans, Professor of Medical Genetics; Dr Suson Huson, Consultant Clinical Geneticist; Rosemary Abbott, Specialist Advisor for Neurofibromatosis; Mary Perry, Registered Genetic Counsellor - Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals NHS Trust
2nd - Point of Care Safe and Optimal Antimicrobial Programme (SOAP) - Professor Jonathan Cooke, Director of Medicines Management and Pharmacy and Director of Research and Development; Joanne Burgess, IT Operations Manager; Kelly Alexander, Antimicrobial Pharmacist; Barbara Isalska, Consultant Microbiologist; Susie Rushton, Research and Development Operations Manager; Steve Williams, Consultant Pharmacist and the Antimicrobial Committee - University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust
3rd - A Relational Database to Audit and Assess Patient Set-up Data from 3-Dimensional Verification - Julie Davies, Superintendent Research Radiographer; Julia Stratford, Senior Research Radiographer; Steven Smith, Research Radiographer, Ranald Mackay, Head of Radiotherapy Physics - Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended - The Learning Lunchbox - Helen Hyndman, Heathy Schools Coordinator - Trafford PCT
1st - EDIT Service - People at Ultra-High Risk of Developing Psychosis, A Preventative Approach - Dr Samantha Bowe, Clinical Lead and Clinical Psychologist; Dr Sophie Parker, Clinical Psychologist; Professor Tony Morrison, Associate Director; Paul French, Associate Director - Bolton, Salford and Trafford Mental Health NHS Trust
2nd - One Stop Transplant/Dermatology Clinic - Sheila Russell, Advanced Nurse Practitioner and Dr John Lear, Consultant Dermatologist - Central Manchester and Manchester Children's Unversity Hospitals NHS Trust
3rd - Rapid Access Blackouts Triage Clinic - Dr Sanjiv Petkar, Clinical Research Fellow and Honorary Associate Specialist (Cardiology); Sister WIn Bell, Specialist Electrophysiology Nurse; Sister Nicola Rice, Specialist Falls Nurse; Dr Marie Hanley, Consultant Physician; Dr David McKee, Consultant Neurologist; Dr Nick Curtis, GP with Special Interest in Epilepsy; Professor Kevin Mackway-Jones, Consultant in Accident and Emergency; Mr Jimmy Stuart, Consultant in Accident and Emergency; Sister Pamela Iddon, Specialist Eplilepsy Nurse; Professor Clifford Garratt, Consultant Cardiologist; Dr Adam Fitzpatrick, Consultant Cardiologist and Dr Paul Cooper - Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals NHS Trust
Highly Commended - Active Management of Critical Care in Major Elective Surgery - Andrew Higgs, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine; Ellis Clarke, Matron; Rajiv Sanger, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon; Mark Tighe, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon - North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Highly Commended - Alcohol Service Within the Acute Hospital Setting - Carrie Cowburn, Alcohol Specialist Nurse - Wrightington, Wigan an Leigh NHS Trust
If you are using a computer that has Flash installed click on the video above to view the highlights of the North West NHS Innovation Awards Ceremony 2008 held at the Last Drop Village Hotel, Bolton. Alternatively, if you are using a computer that has not got Flash installed click here to view details of past winners.
Over 100 people from within the NHS, healthcare, and private sector came together last on Wednesday 11 November to celebrate the North West NHS innovation Awards 2009 at Manchester Art Gallery. Click on the video above to view highlights of the ceremony. Alternatively click here to view the winners.
Now in its seventh year the North West NHS Innovation Awards is the only scheme dedicated to rewarding North West NHS innovators. Previous year´s awards have highlighted the vast amount of innovations that are taking place and being developed in NHS Trusts across the North West. It really does show that our region is at the forefront of NHS innovation and we hope this continues.
Richard Deed, Innovation Unit Manager, TrusTECH