Stockport NHS surgical team wins at HSJ Patient Safety Awards

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Improvements in the rate of elective surgery at Stepping Hill Hospital have been recognised by the winning of a major national patient safety award.

The Stockport NHS Foundation Trust team which organises elective or non-emergency surgery received the patient safety in elective recovery award at the

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Health Service Journal, HSJ, Patient Safety Awards, which recognise projects to improve and improve patient safety across the country.

Karen James OBE, Chief Executive for Stockport NHS Foundation Trust said: “I am so pleased to see that our surgical team have won their category at the HSJ Patient

Stockport NHS surgical team wins at national HSJ Patient Safety AwardsStockport NHS surgical team wins at national HSJ Patient Safety Awards
Stockport NHS surgical team wins at national HSJ Patient Safety Awards

Safety Awards.

“This is very well deserved for a project which showed real innovation in ensuring the best possible safety standards for our surgical patients recovering from surgery.

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“It was great to see our other three teams being recognised at these awards too, showing the many different ways in which we put patient safety at the heart of what we do.”

The elective surgery team were recognised for their project to tackle the large backlog of surgery which had developed during and since the COVID-19 pandemic.

The pandemic had a huge impact in increasing waiting lists for elective surgery, and these effects are still being seen years after the end of lockdown.

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Many thousands were waiting longer, and there was a major backlog in trusts across the country.

The trust says the surgical theatres team took a rigorous and constructive approach, looking at the causes of delays and inefficiencies, in order to reduce this backlog while still

ensuring rigorous safety standards were in place.

Elective operations were increased from around 1200 per month to nearer 1700 a month, allowing patients to get the procedures they need sooner, which is better for

their health outcomes.

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Stockport NHS Foundation Trust also had four other teams shortlisted; patient safety education and training for the paediatrics team, patient safety in elective recovery patient safety in elective recovery award for the urology team, quality improvement initiative of the year for the work done by the endoscopy team, and staff health and wellbeing Initiative of the year for the people’s directorate and gynaecology services.

The award was presented at an evening ceremony run by the HSJ in Manchester.

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