Improving 18 Week Patient Pathways

Posters from the Heart Improvement Conference 2010

Posters were judged by Professor Roger Boyle and Dr Janet Williamson

Best contribution to a quality service

Winning Poster- Local Enhanced Service for Heart Failure in Primary Care
NHS Manchester - Greater Manchester & Cheshire Cardiac Network

Implementing and Incentivising the Highest Quality Primary Angioplasty
NHS Bristol - Avon, Glos, Wilts & Somerset Cardiac & Stroke Network

Providing 24/7 access to appropriate and effective multi-disciplinary team services in the North West of Surrey at End stage Heart Failure
Surrey Heart & Stroke Network - Facilitation

Empowering patients and staff - increasing access to cardiac prevention services for all patients and their partners including ethnic minorities
NHS Berkshire East

Innovation award

Winning Poster Wireless Telemedicine in Primary Care
Greater Manchester & Cheshire Cardiac Network

Clopidogrel Resistance in Stent Thrombosis (CREST) screening: A novel 15 minute point-of-care test used to determine whether patients presenting with potentially fatal stent thrombosis are responding to aspirin and clopidogrel. Poor responders are at increased risk and require treatment modification to reduce this risk
Wessex Cardiac Unit, Southampton University Hospital

Regional electronic cardiac data sharing and storage
North of England Cardiovascular Network

GRACE Score as Novel Triage Strategy for CABG following ACS
Lancashire Cardiac Centre, Blackpool Victoria Hospital - Cardiac & Stroke Networks in Lancashire & Cumbria

Pacesetters - Wave 2 projects improving access to cardiac rehabilitation programmes
Department of Health

Pacesetters - Healthy Hearts A health promotion project aimed at adults with a Learning Disability
Nottingham Network

Best impact on productivity

Winning Poster - Collaboration works! How joining together can achieve outcomes without comprising individual Trust identity
Peninsula Purchasing and Supply Alliance
 

Promoting healthy lifestyles

Winning PosterThe Portsmouth "Heart-2-Heart": Encouraging relatives of people with premature CHD to attend for vascular screening using postcards
Portsmouth City Teaching PCT

NHS Health Checks / CVD Risk
NHS Rotherham, Public Health Dept

Meeting and promoting the dietary requirements of cardiology inpatients post myocardial infarction
Addenbrookes Hospital Cambridge

Working partnerships

Winning Poster - Development of an integrated model for earlier identication and provision of palliative care for patients with advanced Heart Failure
Brent Community Services - North West London Cardiac & Stroke Network

We are making a difference. Partnership working between the Network, support groups and service users works

North Trent Network of Cardiac Care (NTNCC)

Monitoring of Cardiac Rehabilitation Development across the English Cardiac Networks 2007-2010
Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS FT 

Developing a world class primary angioplasty service
Black Country Cardiovascular Network

The power of audit in supporting NT-proBNP (N-terminal pro b-type natriuretic peptide) testing across North Central London Cardiac & Stroke Network
North Central London Cardiac & Stroke Network

Productive consultation and major outcomes: How extensive but productive consultation with relevant stakeholders led to the development of a sector wide CVD Prevention Guidance
North Central London Cardiac & Stroke Network

Outstanding contribution

Winning Poster- Little changes, big impact: How Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust tackled the National and International Issue of poor uptake in Cardiac Rehab
North West London Cardiac & Stroke Network

Cardiac Acute Transfer System - The Use of a Web Based Inter-Hospital Transfer System for non ST elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome, Cardiac Surgery and Electrophysiology
Greater Manchester & Cheshire Cardiac & Stroke Network

St George's NHS Trust and the South London Cardiac and Stroke Networks' re-design of the Cardiac Surgery Patient Pathway
St George's NHS Trust - South London Cardiac and Stroke Networks