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The Best Practice Awards reward excellence and showcase exemplary rheumatology services by promoting innovation and best practice across every aspect of rheumatology treatment.

Entries for the 2020 Best Practice Awards have now closed.

Congratulations to the eight sites across the UK who have been shortlisted in this round of awards:

  • Alder Hey NHS Foundation Trust

  • Central Lancashire Moving Well Rheumatology Service, Minerva Health Centre

  • Kellgren Centre for Rheumatology, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

  • North Bristol NHS Trust

  • Northern Devon Healthcare Trust

  • Princess of Wales, Bridgend

  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

  • University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust

The 2020 awards will celebrate an innovative or particularly successful scheme involving patients in their local service improvement, in partnership with Versus Arthritis.

Award winners will be announced to the profession at Annual Conference 2020 during the Jewels in the Crown session. The shortlisted units will be asked to produce a poster showcasing their work.

Winning units will deliver a short presentation on their work during the Best Practice session, supporting the distribution and adoption of their practice.

Entry criteria

Entrants were asked to provide evidence that their practice innovations have had positive impact, are clinically and cost effective, and could be implemented by other providers. This could be related to any of the following:

  • Audit against national guidance (BSR, NICE) resulting in improved outcomes in quality and performance

  • Implementation of new evidence-based service models or clinical re-design

  • Development of new service pathways across secondary and primary care

  • Streamlining systems and processes to achieve the same outcomes using fewer resources

  • Novel use of NHS data to understand how services are delivered and how outcomes could be improved

  • Medicines optimisation, particularly related to high-cost drugs

  • Integration of age-appropriate care

  • Coordinated provision of Specialised Services including network development

  • Championing patient involvement

  • Introduction of measures to capture the impact of innovative service offers, such as social prescribing and digital patient support tools, to develop the evidence base for wider adoption of best practice

2018 winners

  • Eastern Network for Rare Autoimmune Disease (ENRAD) Videoconferencing MDT
    Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
    Find out more

    • Paediatric MSK triage in the community
      Pennine MSK Partnership
      Find out more

    • Establishing an Associate Rheumatology Nurse Specialist Training Post
      Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow
      Find out more

Highly commended for clinical delivery:

  • Early arthritis service is cost-effective, improves outcomes and reduces biologic use
    Luton and Dunstable University Hospital 

    Find out more

  • Coventry Fast track GCA pathway with walk-in Ultrasound
    University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire
    Find out more

Shortlisted sites:

  • BioSNiP: Biosimilars switching at Northwick Park
    Northwick Park Hospital Harrow
     Find out more

  • Young people’s care is everyone’s business: Integrating children’s and adult rheumatology services in Sheffield to provide seamless, developmentally appropriate rheumatology care
    Sheffield Children’s Hospital and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
     Find out more

  • Improving timely access to rheumatology services by facilitation of pre-referral dialogue
    Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
     Find out more

  • Building cost-effective and sustainable practice through collaboration between patients and care providers: the Leeds Specialist Spondyloarthritis Service experience
    Leeds Specialist Spondyloarthritis Service
     Find out more

  • Creation of a multidisciplinary early inflammatory arthritis service
    Hammersmith Hospital
     Find out more

Contact

British Society for Rheumatology Bride House, 18-20 Bride Lane, London, EC4Y 8EE
T: +44 (0) 20 7842 0900 E: bsr@rheumatology.org.uk

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