Trust teams triumph as regional champions in the NHS Excellence Awards

Two initiatives from Guy’s and St Thomas’ have been announced as regional winners in the first ever NHS Excellence Awards, which celebrate innovation and impact in health and care across the country.

Evelina London’s child health integrated learning and delivery system (CHILDS) was named the London regional champion for the ‘Neighbourhood health’ award, while the Trust’s Kofoworola Abeni Pratt Fellowship took the same title for the ‘Valuing our people’ award.

Neighbourhood health award London champion: Evelina London’s child health integrated learning and delivery system (CHILDS)

For more than 10 years, Evelina London colleagues have been working with health and academic partners to develop and implement the CHILDS model – a population-health informed approach that is improving outcomes for children and young people, including those with long-term conditions such as asthma, eczema and constipation.

CHILDS provides the tools and methods to deliver proportionate universal care and reduce inequalities, so that the children and young people who are most in need of care get the care they need.

It includes proactively using NHS data and advanced analytics to identify children who may benefit from early intervention, creating personalised care that meets their needs; designing information and resources to help families better manage their own health; and delivering any necessary care in a familiar setting close to home, such as a in GP surgery, community health centre or family hub.

Eleanor Wyllie, CHILDS programme manager, said: “We’re delighted to have been selected as a regional champion, and hugely proud that materials developed by CHILDS have been shared within south east London, regionally and nationally, to support adoption of this model more widely. We’re really looking forward to attending the NHS Excellence Awards ceremony in June and hope to see the team’s fantastic work being recognised on a national stage.”

Valuing our people award London champion: Kofoworola Abeni Pratt Fellowship

Launched in 2021 and named in honour of the first Black nurse to graduate from the Nightingale School of Nursing, our Kofoworola Abeni Pratt Fellowship helps to address the gap in senior leaders who identify as being from a global majority background.

The Fellowship is open to all our nurses, midwives and allied health professionals, giving them a unique opportunity to lead on projects across the organisation, working closely with different groups of people, including senior leaders, and gaining experience they would not have in their clinical role.

Róisín Fitzsimons, Deputy Director of Nursing for Culture and Strategy, said: “We’re so proud to be recognised for this unique, immersive, leadership development opportunity. It’s really making a difference in helping us to address the racial and ethnic disparities that we know affect career progression within the organisation. We’re looking forward to attending the awards ceremony to further highlight this important work as a key part of the Trust’s anti-racism commitment.”

All regional champions have been invited to the NHS Excellence Awards ceremony on the evening of Wednesday 10 June at NHS ConfedExpo in Manchester, where the winners will be announced.

You can find out more about the others that were shortlisted, and the awards night on the NHS England website.