Award For Most Advanced Practice Based Commissioning Group/Consortium
The overall winner was Nene Commissioning Group
Nene Commissioning Group was formed in April 2004 as a social enterprise community interest company and comprises 62 practices across Northamptonshire. The consortium includes 273 GPs, covers a population of 520,000 patients and is responsible for a budget of £275m.
The company focuses solely on commissioning services to achieve its goal of improving the health of the population it serves.
2nd Place
In joint second place were Mount View London Street Health Centre in Fleetwood and the South Manchester PBC Consortium.
3rd Place
In third place was Leodis which includes both commissioning and provider arms.
Award For The Most Creative Use of Technology
Johan Taylor, Collecting the award for Marple Cottage Surgery
In first place was Marple Cottage Surgery in Stockport.
Marple Cottage Surgery has developed its own online asthma consultation system, which allows patients to complete regular reviews of their condition remotely.
With chronic diseases, worsening symptoms can occur before the planned review date. Marple Cottage Surgery wanted to develop the means for its patients to ask advice or alert the practice for further help without having to attend the surgery. It is about giving timely advice to prevent worsening conditions, serious events or admissions to hospital.
The system involves patients completing an online consultation relating to their condition. For example, through EMIS Access, they are asked how many times a day they use their blue inhaler. This online consultation is automatically and securely sent to the practice Asthma lead, who creates a new, personalised self-management plan, or, if deemed urgent, calls the patient to make an appointment. The Asthma lead then files the online consultation into the patient’s medical record, for clinical governance purposes. The system also allows the practice to code certain information from the e-consultation directly into the patient record.
2nd Place
In second place was Oakley Medical Practice, a surgery in inner-city Leeds, whose GPs have created multimedia software for health professionals and patients.
3rd Place
In third place was Highfield Surgery in High Wycombe, with the world’s first total tobacco exposure calculator, just half a point behind second place.
Partnership Award
Val Hempsey collecting the award on behalf of Easington PBC group
First place was Easington PBC group and its health partners in the transformation of COPD healthcare delivery.
Easington is a COPD hot spot with a disease prevalence of twice the average for England.
In 2007, the Easington PBC Group established a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency working group to undertake service review, gap analysis and service redesign. The group included patients, social services, wardens’ service, as well ICE (Intermediate Care in Easington, a multi-agency, multi-disciplinary team which provides intensive rehabilitation at home or in a residential setting, following acute admission, A&E attendance, or crisis at home), ambulance services, GP practices and health professionals from acute trusts and primary care. The patient journey was mapped and prioritised for design.
In November 2007 the COPD exacerbation Self-Management Plan was launched in which patients follow a simple flow chart at home. An audit of the use of this flow chart has demonstrated its success and befits in appropriate patients.
2nd Place
In second place was Epsom Down Integrated Care Services in Surrey, with 20 federated GP practices.
3rd Place
In third place, was Askern Medical Practice and its partners in the provision of healthcare to children of travelling communities.
