UK awards for allied health professionals and healthcare scientists
 

2011 AHA winners:

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2010 AHA winners:

 

The winners were presented with their trophies by sponsors and special guest Greg Dyke at a celebratory lunch at the Radisson Portland Square, London on Friday 12 March 2010. View photos from the ceremony

Achieving excellence in learning, teaching, development or mentorship
Sponsored by GateHouse Training

  • WINNER & OVERALL WINNER Developing a Centre of Excellence for Training the Cervical Cytology Workforce Kathryn Hinchliff, Nick Dudding and Keith Faulkner, NHS Yorkshire & The Humber click here for news story
  • Stroke services training programme
    Janet Ivey and Tanya Edmonds, Cwm Taf Health board
    click here for news story
  • Follow in my footsteps: research career development internships for podiatrists Anthony Redmond, Catherine Bowen and Paul Emery, NIHR Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit click here for news story

The Chief Health Professions Officer's Award for Leadership (England)
Sponsored by the Department of Health, England

  • WINNER Establishing an Orthopaedic Physiotherapy Practitioner role on the wards of an Acute Trauma Hospital Katrina Kennedy, Poole Hospital NHS FoundationTrust click here for news story
  • Quality of Life Assessments for people with severe/complex Learning and Physical Disabilities Elizabeth Sara John, Anita Rush and Jenny Harris, NHS West Berkshire
  • Telemetry for decision making for primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Clive Butler, South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Trust

The Chief Scientific Officer’s award for leadership (England)
Sponsored by the Department of Health, England

  • WINNER Integration of 3D Modelling and Rapid Manufacture Technology to improve current practice and Deliver Improved Patient Outcomes in the Field of Maxillofacial Prosthetics Jason Watson and Andrew Sidebottom, Nottingham University Hospital click here for news story
  • The integration of electronic referrals into the Respiratory Physiology Service
    Ian Cliff, University Hospital of North Staffordshire

Enhancing public health and creating healthy communities
Sponsored by the Welsh Assembly Government

  • WINNER Eye Tests For Adults With Learning Disabilities
    Joe McQuillan, Anthony Sullivan and Andrew Coombes, Barts and the London NHS Trust and NHS Tower Hamlets click here for news story
  • Community Nutrition Service for Families of Young Children
    Marie Murphy and Samanatha Shanley, NHS Outer North East London Community Services click here for news story
  • Speech and Language Therapy Primary School Outreach Service
    Kelly Halligan and Lorraine Coulter, South Eastern HSC Trust click here for news story

Enhancing self-care and independent living
Sponsored by NHS Scotland

  • WINNER To see ourselves as others see us: The development and implementation of a Talking Mats resource for comparing perspectives and enhancing understanding within relationships
    Morag Place, Joan Murphy and Alex Gillespie, Talking Mats Research and Development Centre, University of Stirling click here for news story
  • Development of a concise Occupational Therapy Assessment of Occupations- An example of client centred practice innovation Nancy Roberts James, Aneurin Bevan Health Board click here for news story
  • Outpatient Fibromyalgia coping Skills Programme
    Sandi Derham and Julie Russell, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases click here for news story

Innovation in recruitment and career development
Sponsored by NHS Employers

  • WINNER Peripatetic Occupational therapists and career pathways Jan Spencer and Joanna Birch, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust click here for news story
  • Building a team and creating a skill mix to drastically reduce the Speech and Language Therapy Waiting List
    Janet Sparrow and Anita Williams on behalf of Team, Adult Community Speech and Language Therapy Department, Liverpool Community Health click here for news story
  • First harmonised supervision policy for AHPs in NI
    Carmel Harney and Ann Tate, Southern HSC Trust click here for news story

Joint working between allied health professionals and healthcare scientists
Sponsored by Unite the Union

  • WINNER Paediatric Visual Electrodiagnostic Testing
    Lawrence Brown, Lynne Rossiter and Lindsey Hughes, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust click here for news story
  • Reducing orthotics waiting times
    Morag Bardsley and Roger Dent, NHS Stockport
  • Development of a web based system for radiographers to check protocol requirements for clinical and research studies
    Vivien Stevens and Andrew Bramme, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Rethinking the patient care pathway
Sponsored by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Northern Ireland

  • WINNER Challenging traditional pathways to improve the quality of end of life care
    Marcina Europa and Ruth Williams, Sandwell PCT click here for news story
  • Establishing the Early Supported Discharge Team for Stroke at University Hospital's Bristol
    Helen Ellis and Rachel Cooke, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
  • Radiographer lead breast cancer follow up service
    Andrea Hickman, Denize Vaile and Keith Francis, Velindre Cancer Centre, Velindre Hospitals Whitchurch.

2009 winners and finalists (Full summary including all shortlisted projects)

The winners were presented with their trophies by sponsors and special guest Professor Raymond Tallis at a celebratory lunch at the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington, London on Friday 27 February 2009. View photos from the ceremony.

Overall winner sponsored by NHS Employers, and category AHP winner in Innovation in patient or client services, sponsored by the Department of Health, England and the Northern Ireland office

  • Hilary Harris (clinical lead radiography) and Geoffrey Naisby (consultant radiologist) of the James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough are overall winners of the 2009 award for their invention of device, the HILINA, to speed up breast biopsies.

The Judges special award, sponsored by Employing Allied Health Professionals and Healthcare Scientists

  • Jackie Stubbs (principal speech and language therapist), Diana Anderson (senior specialist dietician) and Sue Tye (occupational therapist), North East Essex PCT, for their clever device the TIM tube to help carers to thicken fluids accurately for patients with dysphagia.
     

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