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At a special event in Connolly Hospital recently, Stephen Mulvany Regional Director of Operations, HSE Dublin North East announced the five projects that will go forward to represent the region at the national HSE Achievement Awards 2010 final in November.
68 initiatives from Louth, Meath,Cavan , Monaghan and North Dublin participated in this years event with applications received from across a wide range of activities including clinical services, primary care and social services, support services and management initiatives.
Speaking at the event Mr Mulvany said, "This years applications include excellent examples of innovation and standardisation in healthcare services.The initiatives clearly show the committment and dedication of our staff and include exemplary and innovative ways of achieving even more effective outcomes and care for the patients and clients we serve in a time when we are challenged to maintain and deliver our services using less resources."
The five short listed projects from HSE Dublin North East are:
1) Men's Health and Wellbeing Programme Community Services, Dublin North Central Local Health Office
2) A "Respiratory Passport" for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Beaumont Hospital
3) Working Things Out Through SPHE Mater Hospital CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Family/ Service) /UCD
4) Balance Matters for Older People, Physiotherapy Service , Dublin North Central Local Health Office
5) Tracheostomy Grand Round, Mater Hospital
These five projects along with five entries from each of the other HSE Regions have been short listed to go forward to the National Event in November when the overall winners of the HSE Achievement Awards 2010 will be announced.
The HSE Achievement Awards 2010 in association with Quest Diagnostics were created to recognise and celebrate outstanding work by health and social care staff and ultimately reward best practice and raise standards within the health sector. A total of 326 healthcare projects and initiatives from all over the country have applied for this year's Awards
The HSE Dublin North East Regional Best Project and Runner Up awards, to be announced in the Mansion House, are being kindly sponsored by Sisk.
Additional Information on 5 Shortlisted Projects
1) Men's Health and Wellbeing Programme Community Services, Dublin North Central Local Health Office The Men's Health and Wellbeing programme was developed by the Larkin Centre in partnership with Glasgow Celtic Football Club, the Health Service Executive and Pfizer Healthcare. The project focussed on men living in Dublin's North Inner City. The challenge was to devise a formula and programme that would connect with local men. The Programme ran for ten weeks and focused on fitness and lifestyle, cookery and health education including health screening, health awareness, cookery, and soccer.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is an umbrella term to describe a respiratory disease associated with airflow obstruction. Approximately 440,000 people in Ireland have COPD. Currently it is projected to be the top cause of respiratory deaths in Ireland and the third highest cause of mortality in the world by 2020. In an attempt to improve the quality of care delivery, the quality of life of COPD sufferers and to aspire to achieving the goals of the Health Transformation Programme, an information booklet called a "Respiratory Passport" incorporating an individualised self- management plan was developed by the applicant, who is working as a clinical nurse specialist within a MDT COPD outreach setting.
This initiative is an innovative schools-based psycho educational Resource specifically designed to support SPHE Teachers in their youth mental health promotion work with students. The Resource consists of nine X-animated DVD-based representative youth mental health stories, narrated by the young people themselves. These stories are complimented by a specially-developed Teachers Resource book designed to provide structured lesson-plans for this work.
4) Balance Matters for Older People, Physiotherapy Service Dublin North Central Local Health Office
The Falls Management Exercise (FaME) programme aims to improve older peoples balance and mobility, improve their confidence and prevent falls. The physiotherapy service ran a pilot programme in collaboration with the community in Marino in 2008. An audit was conducted of the outcome measures and this demonstrated significant improvement in peoples balance, mobility, level of confidence and coping abilities in the event of a fall. The evaluation demonstrated that changing from individual one to one sessions on home visits to a group programme was an effective and efficient way to deliver physiotherapy for this client group. This approach was adopted again in Ballymun and Millmount, working closely with statutory, voluntary and community groups to run successful FaME programmes in 2009 and 2010.
The Tracheostomy Grand Round was established in March 2009 as a quality initiative to ensure standardising care, continued progress and rehabilitation of patients with a tracheostomy insitu post discharge from critical care. Prior to the establishment of the grand round, follow up of patients following discharge from critical care was not standardised on the peripheral wards. It is a committed team, which meets weekly incorporating all multidisciplinary team members working with the patient to ensure an integrated progressive management approach. The ultimate goal is the provision of a high quality standardised service for patients with tracheostomy throughout the hospital with the aim of weaning patients in a systematic way that reflects best practice.