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Evidence into Practice Award

The Joint winners receive 10,000 each and the four runners up each receive 1,000. The letters issued to winners on 23 August inviting them to attend, but the overall winners were announced by the Minister on the day.

Award winners

Nursing

Stephen McGinness, Practice Development Nurse
Margaret Aitken, Practice Development Nurse

Other members of the team:

  • Andrew Walker, Pharmacy Manager
  • Gillian Robb, Directorate Nurse Lead
  • John Gilbert, Directorate Nurse Lead
  • Eric Gilmour, Senior Pharmacist
  • Alan Brown, CCDT
  • Morag O Donaghue, Learning & Development Advisor
  • Eileen Salmon. Practice Education Facilitator
  • Dougie Anderson, Directorate General Manager

Trust: NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Project:
Improving Safety: The correct identification of patients and safer administration of medicines in mental health inpatients areas.

The correct identification of patients is essential for core tasks associated with the provision of safe and effective care within health services. As a measure to reduce risk associated within a mental health service context the team developed guidelines for the use of digital photography in clinical areas for improving safety in the administration of medicines. Thereby reducing the potential risk of misidentification and subsequent errors.

Allied Health Professionals

Pauline Robertson, Lead Physiotherapist
Debbie Paton, Lead Pharmacist

Trust: NHS Fife

Project:
RIVERS West Fife Primary Care Pain Programme. Relieving pain as we Inspire change, impart new Vision with Exercise, Relaxation and Self management.

A multidisciplinary community based pain management programme which helps patients in the early stage of chronic pain. The interventions are evidence based and empowering in nature to allow the patient to safely self manage their condition while continuing to participate as fully as possible in work and leisure activities. The programme aims to support the comprehensive redesigning of services across the interface of statutory and voluntary services by establishing outreach of secondary care pain services to Primary Care, thereby reducing waiting times and improving access for patients.

Runners Up

Nursing and Midwifery

Marion Gilchrist, Community Learning Disability Nurse
Valerie Barclay, Community Learning Disability Nurse
 
Trust: NHS Ayrshire & Arran
 
Project:
Support to improve services for adults with Learning Disabilities in Primary Care in North Ayrshire Community Health Partnership.
 
People with learning disability can evidence a variety of unmet health needs, and experience a range of barriers to accessing services. Two Community Learning Disability Nurses have been seconded to work with GP practices to identify people with a learning disability on practice lists and facilitate the application of a new, standard READ code for learning disability; to disseminate and offer support in relation to resource pack to primary care staff offering guidance on supporting people with learning disability and to drive the implementation of an annual health check. Benefits realised so far include: highlighting leaning disability issues to primary care staff and the establishment of links across services.
 
Kim Fraser
 
Trust: NHS Tayside
 
Project:
The impact of breastfeeding rates in deprived areas of Dundee using Breastfeeding Support Workers (BSW)
Innovative intervention funded by the Scottish Executive to improve breastfeeding initiation and duration rates among women living in Depcat areas 5, 6 and 7 in Dundee City by recruiting and training healthcare assistants to provide additional information and support in both the antenatal and postnatal period. Preliminary results (first 6 months) demonstrate a dramatic increase in breastfeeding rates at 6 weeks in women living in the most deprived areas of Dundee City.
 
Elaine Peace, Nurse Consultant Cancer, Palliative Care
 
Other members of the team:
  • Dr Paul Cormie, Macmillan Lead General Practitioner, Cancer & Palliative Care
  • Margaret Young, District Nurse Co-ordinator
  • Sandra Wright, Out of Hours Nurse
  • Linda Tucker, Palliative Care Nurse Specialist

Trust: NHS Borders

Project:
Borders Palliative Care Out of Hours Service
This nurse led service was designed around the research evidence and the views of patients and their informal and professional carers. Work was undertaken to identify the specific needs of patients with palliative care needs and their carers in the out of hour s period. Adopting a proactive approach to care planning the primary care team provide the service with a handover from detailing aspect of the patient s condition and proposed care plan. Patients and carers are given a dedicated telephone number where a nurse will triage their call and respond appropriately in terms of advice, home visit or medical consultation. User feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.
 
Linda King, Lecturer-Practitioner, Medicine of the Elderly, Napier University
Maria Pilcher, Clinical Skills Facilitator, Medicine of the Elderly
 
Other members of the team:
  • Frances Bayait, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Continence
  • Susanne Fraser, Head Occupational Therapist
  • Alison Milligan, Staff Nurse
  • Karen Campbell, Senior Physiotherapist
  • Dr A Coull, Geriatrician Consultant
Trust: NHS Lothian
 
Project:
Promoting Safe and Effective Practice in Continence Care
 
Project initiated by a multidisciplinary medicine of the elderly continence clinical improvement group. The aim is to promote effective practice in continence assessment by facilitating change management, educational, audit and protocol strategies. Staff were enabled to compare practice with another clinical area using an audit tool from the NHSQIS Best Practice Statement (2005) Continence; Adults with urinary dysfunction.
 

Applications

 
Full details of all applications for this award are available here.