QiC Diabetes awards 2022 celebrate UK healthcare excellence - PMLiVE

Back for the twelfth year, the in-person awards were a solemnisation of the champion and brightest successful healthcare. Recognising outstanding and innovative contributions successful the tract of diabetes, entries were submitted from crossed the UK demonstrating creativity and compassion successful aesculapian excellence and care.

The awards honour initiatives that question to amended the prime of beingness for radical with diabetes, and the entries were judged by NHS staff, patients and manufacture leaders.

The awards, created by the QiC Diabetes squad and its programme partner, Sanofi, were hosted by Dr Mark Porter, NHS GP and Times columnist.

Mark highlighted the sacrifices made by healthcare professionals implicit the past 2 years, and the unthinkable enactment that they do, offering his acknowledgment to each who took the clip and effort to taxable an entry.

Jessamy Baird, Sanofi’s wide manager, wide medicines, UK and Ireland and state lead, thanked each the participants, saying that adjacent to beryllium shortlisted arsenic a finalist successful QiC Diabetes was a immense achievement, fixed the rigorous judging process and precocious modular of entries.

Presenting the archetypal grant of the night, Simon O’Neill, manager of wellness quality and nonrecreational liaison, Diabetes UK and seat of the QiC Diabetes judging panel, said: “Despite the challenges successful the NHS, each twelvemonth I’m amazed by what you person managed to bash and [how] you deliberation of caller ways of doing things.”

Later, helium added: “I deliberation each the judges were blown distant by the quality, adjacent though determination were less entries this year, unsurprisingly due to the fact that of the pressures but the prime was nary different; it was truly hard to justice immoderate of the awards.”

The archetypal class for Diabetes Education Programmes – Healthcare Professionals was won by DEVICE Project Team and Oxford Medical Simulation for their jointly produced introduction ‘DEVICE’ (Diabetes Emergencies: Virtual Interactive Clinical Education) Project, exertion that was ‘developed to amended competence and trim aesculapian errors’ done the implementation of virtual world (VR).

‘DEVICE’ went connected to instrumentality location the Judges’ Special Award, with the sheet commenting: "This highly innovative task took an breathtaking and refreshing attack to prosecute HCPs successful diabetes and trim immoderate of the cardinal information hazard factors for inpatients. The VR acquisition has been thoroughly planned to see a blended learning approach, portion inactive keeping diligent attraction astatine its centre. It could person a immense interaction connected diligent information if it is rolled retired crossed the UK and whitethorn commencement discussions astir wider diabetes grooming for those for whom it sparks an interest."

This introduction impressed the judges with its “patient-centricity, alongside the data-driven and evidence-based attack employed by creators”, arsenic good arsenic its usage of “multiple initiatives with an fantabulous steer connected prime betterment that continued during the COVID-19 pandemic”.

During the event, Twitter was fired up with congratulatory messages betwixt finalists, with Dr Rebecca Thomas, the erstwhile victor of QiC 2021’s Outstanding Educator successful Diabetes award,  tweeting: Lovely to spot a ample Welsh contingent @QiCProgramme was a large nighttime & beauteous to conscionable the @BetsiCadwaladr & @CV_UHB diabetes teams. @SwanseaMedicine @SBUThinkGlucose@SwanseabayNHS

The QiC Diabetes squad acknowledgment its programme partner, Sanofi, for its enactment and congratulates each winners and entrants.

For the afloat database of winners, see QiC Diabetes 2022 results.