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London's Top NHS Innovators Announced
12:00 AM, 26 November 2009 - 12:00 AM, 26 November 2009
NHS Innovations London Awards 2009
London’s top NHS Innovators have just been announced at the NHS Innovations London Awards 2009. 200 guests from the NHS, industry, government, the London Mayor’s Office and the financial community gathered to hear Polly Toynbee, announce the winners in 7 different categories.
The Outstanding Contribution to Innovation Award was presented by former Olympic Gold medallist, Tessa Sanderson CBE who commented “This year’s award goes to an outstanding innovator, who, by his own admission has said the roots of his success as a cardiologist and cardiac interventionist have been firmly laid in innovation”.
The award was presented to Professor Martin Rothman who throughout his career has had countless innovative ideas; currently the inventor has 25 patent families. In 1980 he implemented an angioplasty programme and in 1987 he introduced the coronary stent. At the time, both innovations seemed novel and dangerous yet both are now mainstream procedures.
The Innovative Trust of the Year Award was presented by Pamela Chesters from the London Mayor’s Office. The award was presented to Barking, Havering & Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust. The Innovative Trust Award relates to the most innovations received by NHSIL in 2008-2009 from any one Trust.
The event, held at Delfina Gallery in London, was hosted by Guardian Columnist Polly Toynbee. The winners were selected by an independent judging panel hand picked for their special expertise.
Of the nominees this year, David Chilvers, Chief Executive of NHS Innovations London said “With an even greater focus on innovation throughout the NHS this year saw the most hotly contested awards ever. The judges had a very difficult task inselecting the winners for each category. These projects are an outstanding example of the world class innovation taking place in London NHS Trusts”.
The NHS London Innovator Awards are designed to reward individuals who constantly strive to provide a better service for patients whether through new advances in technology or new products to improve the level of patient care.
The expert judging panel included Peter Ellingworth, Chief Executive, ABHI; Kevin Dean, Managing Director, Public Sector Healthcare Internet Business, Cisco Systems Inc; David Gillen, Vice President, Primary Care Business Unit, Pfizer; Sophie Goodchild, Journalist, The Evening Standard and Nigel Banister, Head of Business Research, London Development Agency.
And the winners were…
Healthcare ICT
e-VENT (Electronic Discharge Pathway for Children on Long Term VENTilation)
Dr Gillian Halley, Dr James Woods and Mr Stuart Rowe
Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
Healthcare Services
Tailored Chemotherapy for Lung Cancer
Mr Eric Lim
Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
Medical Devices/Equipment
Cerebral Aneurysm Catheter System
Mr Prem Rangi
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust
Pharmaceuticals/Drug Delivery
Immuno-Modulator: a Novel Fusion Protein for Treatment of Inflammatory Diseases
Dr Mohammad Ibrahim
King’s College Hospital NHS Trust
Diagnostics/Laboratory
Detection of Antiphospholipid Antibodies based on Heparin Resistance
Dr Beverley Hunt
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Outstanding Contribution to Innovation
Professor Martin Rothman
Barts and the London Hospital NHS Trust
Innovative Trust of Year
Barking, Havering & Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust
High commendation goes to all the shortlisted nominees for the NHS London Innovator Awards 2009:
Medical Devices & Equipment
Anchor Guidewire
Mr Michael Mullen, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
Stereotactic Frame Holder
Dr Harith Akram and Dr Ian Low, Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust
Release of Suction in Emergency Caesarean Section
Ms Annette Briley, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Paediatric Blood Culture Straw
Dr Michael Quail, The North West London Hospitals NHS Trust
Healthcare ICT
Command Centre (Bed Management) – Enabling Real-Time Information on the Status of all Patients
Mr James Thomas, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Paediatric Acuity and Nursing Dependency Assessment (PANDA)
Ms Susan Chapman and Professor Judith Ellis, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust
Handover System
Dr Aklak Choudhury, Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust
Neurological Rehabilitation Patient Management Tool
Mr Stuart Wills and Dr Diane Playford, University College London Hospitals NHS
Foundation Trust
Diagnostics/Laboratory
A Pan-Pathogen Diagnostic Microarray for COPD
Prof Wisia Wedzicha, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust
Novel Diagnostic DNA Markers for Inherited Hearing Loss
Dr Nicholas Lench, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust
Cardiac Output Monitor
Dr Simon Finney, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
Chip Array Based Diagnostics for Familial Hypercholesterolaemia
Dr Anthony Wierzbicki, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Predication of Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (OHSS)
Dr Rina Agrawal, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust
Healthcare Services
Aspire Project
Ms Amynta Cardwell, Mr Melvyn Davis, Mr Lloyd Curtis and Ms Jean Pigott, Central and North West London Mental Health NHS Trust
Alternative Response Centre
Mr Brian Hayes, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Feel-UK
Dr Susanna Price, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
Intensive Residential Therapy Programme for Obesity
Dr Eric Johnson-Sabine and Dr Claire Gallagher, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental
Health NHS Trust
Pharmaceuticals/Drug Delivery
Oral Phage Mixtures for Enteric Prophylaxis of Immunosuppressed Patients and for Infection Control in Hospitals
Dr James Soothill, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust
New formulation for Levodopa
Mr John Farrell, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust
Tennis Elbow Tissue Engineering Therapy
Dr Simon Grange and Dr David Connell, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Molecular Sensitivity Signature to Anti-Angiogenic Therapy for Cancer
Dr James Larkin, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
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