★Winners★

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The Place-based Longitudinal Data Resource (PLDR)
University of Liverpool

The Place-based Longitudinal Data Resource (PLDR) is a new online resource which brings together datasets that track changes in the determinants of health and health outcomes in places over time.

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The Asthma Mapping Project
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

The Asthma Mapping project aims to minimise health inequalities of respiratory illness in children across Liverpool. The project works with multiple agencies, analysing a variety of data to develop a monthly 'heatmap’ that depicts locations with high paediatric asthma morbidity and related contributing factors.

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Mandeep S. Bajwa
University of Liverpool and Liverpool Head and Neck Centre

Mandeep S. Bajwa is an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow and PhD student at the University of Liverpool. His fellowship is centred on the design, set-up and delivery of the DEFeND (Determining the Effectiveness of Fibrin Sealants in Reducing Complications in patients Undergoing Lateral Neck Dissection) trial.

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Clinical academia: the dream team collaboration
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan)

The Clinical Academic Faculty (CAF), a partnership between Lancashire Teaching Hospitals and UCLan, supports the development of local clinical academic research and innovation. It offers a one-stop shop for clinical academic research advice and signposting, and provides clinical academic training in the form of a research engagement programme and clinical academic training and internship programmes.

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Hope therapy service
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

The Hope therapy service, part of Liaison Psychiatry Service Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, provides rapid access to brief psychodynamic interpersonal therapy and cognitive analytic therapy for patients presenting to emergency departments with self-harm. It is the only dedicated service providing psychological intervention for self-harm in the North West of England.

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My place: a natural way to wellbeing
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust and Lancashire Wildlife Trust

‘Myplace, a natural way to wellbeing’ is an innovative partnership between Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust and Lancashire Wildlife Trust. Together they have supported 1200 people to improve their mental health through access to nature.

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Early detection of deterioration in children in hospital to prevent critical care transfer – the DETECT study
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and University of Liverpool

The DETECT study is the first large study of its kind in hospitalised children in the UK to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of an electronic paediatric early warning score (PEWS), NICE sepsis screening and bundled management of suspected sepsis, aimed at reducing critical deterioration.

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Patient and public-led involvement in health and care innovation
PIES: Patient Involvement and Engagement Senate

The Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement Senate (PIES) is a participant-led, participant-chaired group. PIES has been an integral part of several innovation, system improvement and commercial development projects over the last 12 months. The group is actively involved in a variety of projects, providing face-to-face feedback, product testing and co-creation of solutions.

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Our cultural journey
FCMS/PDS Medical - Fleetwood Urgent Treatment Centre

A team from Fleetwood Urgent Treatment Centre attended the Innovation Agency Coaching Academy programme Coaching to Create a Culture for Patient Safety and Improvement. The coaching was invaluable. New theories and models of culture were learned, facilitating the implementation of new ideas. These simple ideas were instrumental in changing culture.

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Dr Nichola Manu
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Nichola Manu has transformed recruitment to an interventional surgical study, leading to the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust becoming the highest recruiter nationally to the study - and the region as a whole becoming the second highest recruiter in this sub-speciality.

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Commercial gastroenterology research
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 

The dedicated gastroenterology research team at St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to providing the best possible care to patients, and recognises the value of offering patients pioneering trial treatments as an option to conventional treatment. The team has embedded research as normal practice, which in turn has increased the amount of research taking place in the department.

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Professor Carolyn Young
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Carolyn Young has developed and is delivering the TONiC Study (Trajectories of Outcomes in Neurological Conditions) at The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust.  This study has been running since 2012 and is now into Phase 6.  TONiC is a questionnaire-based study which gives patients the opportunity to tell clinicians what it is like for them to have their specific condition: it is very popular amongst patients because it gives them a voice. As of December 2019, 30,824 patients have been recruited into TONiC.  This has generated an understanding of the wants and needs of patients living with different conditions which has informed other studies.

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Collaborative working: cardiovascular research team
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North West Coast Research Nurses

The cardiovascular team at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has ensured effective recruitment of 674 patients into clinic trials, a five-year high for the trust. It demonstrates an excellent collaboration between the trust and the Clinical Research network.