WINNER:

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust

The Bay Way – a fundamental shift in the way we work and lead

The Bay Way is a social movement. It is a fundamental shift in the way the trust works and leads. The aim is to create a lasting culture that engages with and empowers all staff, improving the services offered to patients and the experience staff get from working in the trust’s hospitals.

WINNER:

BBI (Europe) Limited

Prevention Made Real – using the SEM Scanner to achieve zero or near-zero pressure ulcers

Pressure ulcers are one of the highest reported patient harms. The SEM Scanner is now being implemented through a Pressure Ulcer Reduction Programme as an adjunct to standard of care and is helping achieve significant reductions in pressure ulcer incidence in a variety of care settings.

WINNER:

Merseyside Local Professional Network for Pharmacy

Large-scale implementation of Transfers of Care Around Medicine (TCAM)

TCAM is a cost-effective transformation programme across Cheshire and Merseyside to optimise the use of medicines following patient discharge from hospital. TCAM has demonstrated significant increases in medicines adherence, leading to improved health outcomes for patients and fewer admissions or re-admissions to hospital.

WINNER:

NHS Halton Clinical Commissioning Group

Well Halton

Well Halton is led by NHS Halton CCG and has adopted an approach of wide and inclusive partnership across multiple sectors. The range of partners includes Widnes Vikings Rugby Team, the Science and Technology Facilities Council, Runcorn Shopping Centre, Runcorn Veterans Association and many others.

WINNER:

Professor Simon Harding

St Paul's Clinical Eye Research Centre, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust

The North West Coast tops the league table for recruitment into ophthalmology research. Professor Simon Harding has taken a leading role in this achievement, working with Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, The University of Liverpool and many NIHR partner trusts. Seventy six per cent of hospitals in England now offer patients the opportunity to take part in eye disease studies and 15,500 patients per year are offered innovative treatments for diseases such as age-related macular degeneration.

WINNER:

Dr Andy Nixon

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Andy Nixon is an exemplar research fellow, future chief investigator and NIHR collaborator. His work will develop a systematic approach to identify the medical, psychological, social and functional needs of older adults, allow the formulation of targeted management plans and will help to promote independence for older people.

WINNER:

Respiratory Research Team

Accelerator Research Clinic: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

The recently opened Accelerator Research Clinic is the future for respiratory research at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The team uses a multitude of innovative approaches to research design, recruitment and delivery, and all studies recruit to time and target.

WINNER:

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Clyz Labs Limited

An observational clinical trial to develop and validate the Cancertain® Test

The Cancertain® Test will personalise the cancer treatment for lung cancer patients and started in 2018 at St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. More than 100 people with a new diagnosis of lung cancer will take part in this trial.

WINNER:

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

The Life Rooms

The Life Rooms demonstrate an outstanding contribution to PPI in research. Three public advisors have worked alongside Life Rooms staff on the most recent evaluation of the service. Working collaboratively with public advisors has been an invaluable part of implementing a meaningful evaluation.

WINNER:

Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust

The WOMAN Trial

The WOMAN trial was a large, international, double blind placebo trial examining the use of tranexamic acid to reduce maternal deaths and improve outcomes linked to excessive postnatal bleeding. Liverpool Women’s Hospital was a collaborator site.

WINNER:

Lancaster University and CLAHRC NWC

Art and Storytelling in Health Inequalities Research

Three Neighbourhoods for Learning (NfL) involved in the CLAHRC NWC Neighbourhood Resilience Programme are pioneering the use of arts-based storytelling to conduct their local resident-led research. Two NfLs have focussed on understanding social isolation and building greater social connectedness. The third area has explored ways of improving employment prospects for local people.

WINNER:

Naoimh McMahon

University of Central Lancashire

Naoimh McMahon is an exceptional PhD student whose research has focused on working 'upstream' with NHS and local authority organisations to understand how interventions to reduce health inequalities in the North West Coast work, and has involved staff, service users and members of the public.