{"id":142284,"date":"2025-09-17T00:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T00:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/142284\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T00:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T00:09:10","slug":"hsj-patient-safety-awards-2025-improving-care-for-older-people-initiative-of-the-year-hsj-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/142284\/","title":{"rendered":"HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2025: Improving Care for Older People Initiative of the Year | HSJ Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNER<\/p>\n<p>North West Cancer Centre (NWCC), Western Health and Social Care Trust Pharmacy, Altnagelvin Area Hospital, Macmillan Cancer Support, Queen\u2019s University Belfast (QUB).<\/p>\n<p>The Development and Refinement of an Innovative Model to Improve Medication Safety and Medicines Optimisation in Older People with Cancer<\/p>\n<p>The Western Health and Social Care Trust (WHSCT) previously established a consultant pharmacist-led Medicines Optimisation in Older People (MOOP) case management service, which demonstrated improvements in prescribing appropriateness, reduced medication burden, and fewer unplanned healthcare episodes.<\/p>\n<p>Building on this success, when Northern Ireland\u2019s first consultant cancer pharmacist was appointed in 2016, they collaborated with the MOOP team to create a specialist pharmacy service within cancer care. Together, they developed an outpatient service providing patient-centred, goal-oriented medicines optimisation specifically for older cancer patients.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/solutions.hsj.co.uk\/7023107.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read a detailed case study about this project at HSJ Solutions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Highly commended<\/p>\n<p>Royal Surrey FT:\u00a0Transforming Older People\u2019s Care: A System-Wide Integrated Frailty Crisis Pathway to Improve Safety, Outcomes, and Experience for Older People<\/p>\n<p>Finalists<\/p>\n<p>Central and North West London FT:\u00a0Home first \u2013 Transforming Discharge Destinations for Patients with Cognitive Impairment Following a Period of Intermediate Care<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea &amp; Westminster Hospitals FT, London Ambulance Service, West London Trust, Borough Based Partnerships, Hounslow Primary Care Network:\u00a0Pre-Hospital Ambulance Support Team (PhAST); a System Approach to Improving Care for Frailty Patients in Nursing &amp; Care Homes<\/p>\n<p>Essex Partnership University Trust:\u00a0Ageing Well Carers Intensive Support Team<\/p>\n<p>Harrogate District FT:\u00a0Breaking the Chain: Promoting a Proactive and Preventive IPC Culture Within Adult Social Care, Which Supports the new IPC Educational Framework<\/p>\n<p>Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust:\u00a0That\u2019s Not My Dad: Improving Delirium Care<\/p>\n<p>Lewisham and Greenwich Trust:\u00a0Proactive Ageing Well Service (PAWS)<\/p>\n<p>North East London FT:\u00a0Collaborative Care: Enhancing Frailty Management Through Nurse-Pharmacist Partnerships<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNER North West Cancer Centre (NWCC), Western Health and Social Care Trust Pharmacy, Altnagelvin Area Hospital, Macmillan Cancer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-142284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}