What it means to be shortlisted....

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"Our training, delivered across all disciplines of staff, closed the theory - practice gap, resulting in changes in practice and an enthusiasm towards infection control. It has also meant reductions in HCAI's. Staff are now approaching us with ideas as to how they may further improve their practice and patient care and are suggesting future training topics. It is great to receive recognition for the innovative way that we have approached infection control training. We are truly delighted to have been shortlisted as a finalist".
Rebecca Stretch - Infection Control Lead. Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust - Camden Provider Services.

"We feel passionately that all patients are entitled to receive skilled and confident healthcare no matter what setting they are in. For us infection control is part of basic care across the inter-disciplinary team. A team cannot be performing at its best until all members take infection control seriously. To us it is about respect - respecting the safety and wellbeing of our patients and their families and demonstrating that we care deeply about them. Community providers are not known for their expertise around infection control - our ambition is to demonstrate something different. If we got this award we would be encouraging others to follow our example that given time, effort and inter-disciplinary team work focusing on a clear goal - achieving excellence in infection control is possible in this care setting as it is in acute care"
Maggie Bisset - Head of Nursing. Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust - Camden Provider Services.

"We are delighted to have been nominated as a finalist in the category of team of the year in the Nursing Times awards. As a team of nurses we feel that we are being recognised for the additional roles that nurses take on in today's nursing arena. For the trust itself, being nominated as a finalist will provide positive feedback for staff and in turn will cascade to the general public. This will raise awareness and provide reassurance to them that they will receive an excellent standard of care."
Nurse Led initiative for carotid assessment for the diagnosis and initial management of acute stroke and transient ischaemic attack (TIA). Vascular Studies Unit Tameside Acute NHS Foundation Trust.

'We are absolutely overwhelmed with pride at being shortlisted. When we heard that our Trust had nominated us for the Team of the Year Award in the Nursing Times Awards we were completely bowled over, and being shortlisted is beyond amazing. We love the work we do, and we will be really happy to share our good news with everyone we work with, our extended team'.
Claire Sykes, Team Co-ordinator, Early Intervention in Psychosis Team (South Durham)

"Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been shortlisted in the enhancing patient dignity category and we were delighted to receive this news.
This is a marvellous achievement for the Trust which we hope will lead to a bigger celebration when the actual awards are announced in London on November 2nd. Being shortlisted has helped reward the energy and efforts that staff within our Trust have invested in improving care, experience and promoting dignity for patients admitted to an acute Trust with learning disabilities. This also recognises the working relationships we have developed with the staff who specialise in caring for patients with learning disabilities from our local Partnership Trust: Cheshire and Wirral. We are committed to continuing to work together in improving the health outcomes and experiences for this client group."
Jayne Hartley , Deputy Director of Nursing and Quality, Leighton Hospital

"It is fantastic news to be short listed for such a prestigious award. It is an honour and a privilege to be a Nursing Times Finalist.
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust is very proud to have one of their nurses nominated in the Cancer Nurse Leader category. In order to promote being a Nursing Times finalist, the Trust will put an article in the Siren which is the Salford Royal - E Newsletter, whose circulation covers all multidisciplinary staff in hospital and community settings. I will also promote it at the National Lung Cancer Nurses Forum, Macmillan Cancer networks, the Greater Manchester Cancer Network and at internal / external meetings and conferences."
Janette Murray, Macmillan Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

Penny Shewell, Community Nurse, has been shortlisted for the Nursing Times Learning Disability Nurse Award for her entry Prescriber nurse-led clinics - a community model for people with learning disabilities and epilepsy. The aim is to reduce epilepsy related deaths and help tackle health inequalities for a disadvantaged population This service provides personalised epilepsy care for people with learning disabilities, and epilepsy in a user-friendly community day care clinic setting.The pilot was run using existing resources by moving consultations from domiciliary to centralised locality clinics. Evaluation has shown significant improvement in health outcomes through a range of measures, including:

• Improved interagency involvement , supporting access to generic services
• A holistic approach to nurse prescribing allowing timely changes and monitoring
• Visual information resources to assist understanding
• More effective use of consultant time by improving the level of data.
• A reduction in did not attend events, fuel consumption & 999 callouts

Penny says: "I feel excited but slightly apprehensive about the next phase of presenting and being interviewed on the project. I was pleasantly surprised to be put forward by Vikki Tweddle and even more surprised to be shortlisted!
"I have received a lot of support from colleagues and would particularly like to thank Ray Thompson, Lesley Price, Vikki Tweddle, Kay Cox, Mark Adams and Helen Johnstone for their help and involvement."

"As a team we are absolutely delighted to have been short listed for such a prestigious award by the Judges, and we will take this opportunity to use the Nursing Time logo in future presentations promoting our work both here at the Trust and within the cancer network here in Birmingham and of course to wider audiences . We plan to attend the award ceremony and to share our good fortune widely across our organisation and with our partner organisations"

Yvette Moore, Deputy Divisional Manager, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals

Tracy Kates said: "I feel both privileged and delighted to have been shortlisted for such a prestigious award. I take great pride in my work and it's important to me that the support and the service provided for patients is of the highest quality and meets the patients needs as far as possible."

Tracy was nominated by Cancer Lead Nurse Karen Pedley. Karen said: "Tracy is such an inspirational figure and her passion for nursing and caring for people always amazes me. She goes the extra mile for every single patient and is a credit to the hospital. Everything she does is underpinned by the hospital's values to deliver 'excellence in every way' and for 'people who use our services to have confidence in what we do'. "

Tracey's success in being shortlisted for the award has received extensive coverage in the local media. This has highlighted her role in developing services and ensuring patient care is of the highest quality.

Aneurin Bevan Health Board are delighted to be shortlisted as finalists in the Care of Older People category of the Nursing Times Award 2011 for their submission 'I want to go Home: Respecting older peoples rights to spend their end of life in their preferred location.'

Being a Nursing Times Awards finalist demonstrates external recognition for the nursing profession in our organisation who are constantly striving for excellence as demonstrated by this nurse led initiative. This area of service development has made a real difference to end of life care, significantly changed practice and facilitated more home deaths through an integrated workforce, who are all committed to deliver the best end of life care in our patients preferred location.

Claire Aston, Senior Strategic Programme Manager for Complex Care, Aneurin Bevan Health Board

"Being shortlisted for the Nursing Times Awards in this category is the highlight of my career and motivates me further to achieve and to be innovative. It is great to receive recognition for a strategy which I am so proud of. It is also great recognition for all those who have supported this innovation as without their commitment their wouldn't be a strategy. These people include the Experts by Experience, our multi-agency partners, commissioners and our Trust who host and provide the clinical specialism and leadership to the strategy.

It is also really important to have received this recognition as it raises the profile of the strategy and shows that a cost-effective comprehensive multi-agency personality disorder strategy can be achieved. It is hoped that this recognition nationally will lead to the roll-out and replication of other multi-agency strategies across the country. Also, that it will succeed in challenging traditional ways of working by raising the profile and importance of service user partnerships, integration and collaboration."

Gary Lamph, Advanced Practitioner in Personality Disorder, Nursing in Mental Health

It is an honour for all involved in this service to be shortlisted for this award.The recognition this will bring, not only to the team on a personal level a feeling of satisfaction that we are doing things right, but also national recognition that we have an excellent service for patients with respiratory disease.

We have also put our own hospital trust on this map as one providing services for respiratory patients as set out in the current NHS agenda.The opportunities to disseminate our findings, both nationally and locally will be of benefit to all respiratory patients. We hope that it will encourage others to provide better opportunities and services for respiratory patients they care for.

Elaine Stevenson, Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust