November 24, 2016 Industry news
GS1 UK were proud to sponsor this year’s Health Service Journal Patient Safety award
Huge congratulations to Inclusion South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust for their outstanding submission to this year’s Patient Safety category. Their project ‘Nalxone – increasing awareness, saving lives’ set out to improve the safety of their patients, specifically opiate using clients, by supplying Naloxone for use in the event of an overdose. They were the first to develop this protocol and since July 2015, over 1,100 people have been trained to administer the kits. So far, at least 52 lives have been saved.
Inclusion has provided drug and alcohol services in the prison and community setting since 2004. Over the past five years, they’ve increased their community provision and now have around 8,000 patients in community substance misuse. They saw the rising numbers in drug misuse mortality rates and decided to develop a programme that would help. Their programme engages families, carers and professionals in the process and is also about developing a culture where drug use can be openly talked about. And ultimately it’s effective – it saves lives.
We’re so proud to receive this year’s patient safety award. As a team, we’re very passionate about the results our project has achieved – our service users are safer, the community is more engaged and, most importantly, we’re saving lives. It’s great to have all our staff’s hard work recognised by this national award.”
Catherine Larkin, Head of Quality and Performance for Inclusion
“We send our congratulations to the Inclusion South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Their entry for this year’s HSJ Patient Safety award epitomises what the award is about – creating safer, sustainable ways of working that save lives. It was great to see so many brilliant entries this year and so much good work taking place in Trusts across England.” Glen Hodgson, Head of Healthcare at GS1 UK
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