Team NNUH shortlisted for four HSJ Patient Safety Awards

Congratulations to the NNUH teams shortlisted for four Health Service Journal (HSJ) Patient Safety Awards.

Our Sleep Service has been recognised in two categories of the annual awards – Early-Stage Patient Safety Innovation of the Year and Patient Safety Pilot Project of the Year.

The department has been shortlisted for its Sleep Well Sooner programme after redesigning and transforming how patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) move from diagnosis to treatment. Developed to address long delays and fragmented outpatient pathways, the service replaced traditional clinics with a group-based “super clinic” model delivering education, rapid review and same-day CPAP initiation. Within 12 months, the waiting list reduced by 47%, with a marked reduction in long waiters.

We’ve also been shortlisted in the Surgical Care Safety Initiative of the Year category for Interventional Radiology’s Local Anaesthetic Pre-Operative Assessment Pathway.

Our Maternity and Gastroenterology teams have been shortlisted in the Maternity, Midwifery and Neonatal Safety Initiative of the Year for their combined multi-disciplinary Pregnancy and Inflammatory Bowel Disease clinic. This follows their success in the Green Nursing Challenge earlier this year after bringing together nursing, midwifery, obstetric and gastroenterology specialists in a single streamlined MDT service, aiming to make pregnancy simpler and more supportive for women with complex IBD needs.

Judging will take place over the summer with the annual awards happening on 29 September at the Patient Safety Congress.