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Led by University Hospital North Staffordshire NHS Trust, this project aimed to reduce morbidity associated with childbirth-related perineal trauma and improve women's experience of maternity care.
With the NHS under increasing financial pressures, health care organisations have to find new ways of doing things, using methods that improve quality and also save money.
Our Shine programme aimed to stimulate thinking, activity and the development of innovative approaches that will improve health care quality. It gave teams the space and encouragement to try out, develop and evaluate new ideas.
This first round of Shine started in spring 2010 and ended in spring 2011.
We selected a range of projects covering many different areas in the NHS, including restructuring antenatal care for high-risk pregnancies, reducing hospital admissions from nursing homes, reducing harm in mental health wards and improving chemotherapy services.
We selected 18 teams from across the UK to take part who received:
The project teams all produced final reports, including self evaluation results, which can be found on the project pages, and some of the projects were able to demonstrate significant savings. For example:
Led by University Hospital North Staffordshire NHS Trust, this project aimed to reduce morbidity associated with childbirth-related perineal trauma and improve women's experience of maternity care.
This project aimed to develop a pathway to support short-notice access to urology outpatient services, to improve efficiency and achieve a better patient experience with fewer unnecessary follow-up ap...
Led by Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with Worcestershire Acute Hospital Trust, NHS Worcestershire and the Pan Birmingham Cancer Network, this project aimed to improve and suppor...
Led by Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, this project aimed to radically restructure antenatal care for women with high-risk pregnancies, to provide a high quality, patient-centred, eviden...
Led by Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, this project aimed to improve the management of violent behaviour on mental health wards, to improve patient safety and reduce sickness and absence amo...
Led by Betsi Cadwaladar University Health Board, this project aimed to support demand management and enhance speed and quality of care for new cardiology patient referrals as part of an integrated mod...
Led by Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, this project aimed to optimise the health of patients in the pre-operative assessment period, conserve blood and improve patient outcomes.
This project aimed to transform chemotherapy services by enabling patients to become more involved in their care, with a focus on the management of toxicity assessment.
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