Team of the Year

The winner of this award is selected from the year's Team of the Month Award winners.

Winner - cardiac theatre team

This team has the skills and flexibility to treat a wide range of patients from premature newborn babies to individuals well into their 90s.  The team has worked hard to enable innovative changes in service delivery to be taken forward. This has been through a combination of role redesign, creative working patterns, teaching initiatives and implementing new clinical procedures.  This team is very patient centered in their approach using their expertise not only in the cardiac theatres but also to deliver care in the cardiac catheter labs and neonatal unit.  

Runner-up - respiratory centre team

The respiratory centre recently won the Acute and Primary Care Innovation Award from the Health Service Journal (HSJ) for the work undertaken with patients who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This project looked at the number of admissions and readmissions of patients due to their disease and then used the outcome of this to look at innovative ways to reduce these. They have achieved a 19% reduction in hospital admissions, and reduced readmissions within 30 days, from 13% to 1.7%. This has been done by patients being reviewed at homes by specialist nurses and consultants and advising on appropriate care. This work has saved the local healthcare economy £300,000 in the treatment of COPD over the past 12 months.   

Also nominated

• General intensive care unit (GICU)
• Day surgery unit, Princess Anne Hospital
• Paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) nursing staff
• Ward G9, division B
• Emergency theatre team, centre block theatres, SGH
• Hydrotherapy team
• In-house interpreter voluntary service
• Stroke team
• Technical services and Southampton oncology cancer pharmacy