Table 1.
Classification, award titles, and descriptions of innovations
| Innovations directly related to healthcare provision | ||
|---|---|---|
| Categories | Award titles | Short description |
| I. Innovations of specified healthcare provision | 1. World Class Commissioning | 1. Initiative that developed a timely and coordinated hyper-acute service provision to stroke patients with early care and fast access to services, and educated organisations to implement stroke care according to national guidelines |
| 2. Clinical Service Redesign | 2. Initiative that redesigned the acute stroke service offering rapid assessment and care provision, and rehabilitation closer to home | |
| 3. Mental Health Innovation | 3. Initiative that provided evidence-based interventions to chronic respiratory patients helping them to manage their synchronic mental health conditions (e.g. depression) | |
| 4. Best Social Marketing Project | 4. Initiative that targeted pregnant women to access smoking cessation services, designed on the basis of their needs | |
| II. Innovations related to the overall organisational function | 1. Primary Care Organisation of the Year | 1. Initiative that concerned a variety of organisational functions, from several health care provision programmes and sound financial management, to the development of local partnerships and the positioning of the organisation as a leader |
| III. Innovations related to patients' safety* | 1. Acute & Primary Care Innovation | 1. A reliability checklist that ensured the conduction and revision of appropriate medical checks in round-wards |
| 2. Improving Care with Technology | 2. A technologically-based innovation that secured adherence to evidence-based guidelines during the blood transfusion process, reducing errors/omissions, paperwork, process time per patient and staff capacity requirements | |
| IV. Innovations of patients' access and reception of healthcare | 1. Improving Patient Access | 1. Initiative that improved prisoners' access to healthcare services through their involvement and the development of the scheme of "prisoner healthcare representatives" |
| 2. Patient Centred Care | 2. Initiative that applied a patient-centred model of care giving patients choice, involvement and control over their care experience | |
| V. Innovations of educational services | 1. Mental Health Innovation | 1. A training programme that educated professionals in evidence-based family interventions, increasing their awareness to the needs of carers of mentally ill patients |
| 2. Skills Development | 2. A training programme that educated diabetes diagnosed patients to better self-manage their condition and provided continued professional development to trainers and educators. | |
| Innovations less related to healthcare provision | ||
| Categories | Award titles | Short description |
| VI. Innovations related to human resources | 1. Recruitment & Retention | 1. A human-resources and workforce development initiative that reformed the recruitment and retention practices through the provision of training programmes and employment opportunities to local unemployed and excluded groups |
| 2. Workforce Development | 2. A workforce transformation programme that prepared staff to provide care closer to home | |
| VII. Innovations related to other organisational functions (e.g. logistics) | 1. Good Corporate Citizenship | 1. Initiative that introduced a transportation scheme, IT developments and new methods of food procurement and waste management which increased organisational sustainability and supported the local economy |
| 2. Best Social Marketing Project | 2. Initiative that provided free access to leisure facilities to disadvantaged groups of citizens in collaboration with the city council | |
* Technological products were incorporated