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Shortlist announced for Military and Civilian Health Partnership Awards
The shortlist for the inaugural Military and Civilian Health Partnership Awards has been announced. Shortlisted teams and individuals will attend an evening awards ceremony on 23 October at the Royal Hospital Chelsea.
Winners will be announced in front of an audience that includes a senior member of the Royal Family, ministers, and prominent military and health representatives.
Competition was fierce, with almost 100 entries for the eight categories from people and teams based in the UK and abroad. This highlights the quality and calibre of the people looking after our Armed Forces, veterans and their dependants.
Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Health), Lieutenant General Robert Baxter, a judge for the awards, said:
"It has been heart-warming to read these testimonies to the professionalism and dedication of those involved in caring for the health of our Armed Forces. I have had to grade citations a number of times in my career, and this group has been particularly hard.
"I congratulate everyone who has made it through to the final of this inaugural awards scheme. Your hard work and dedication is saving and improving the lives of our Armed Forces."
Entries were received from across the Defence Medical Services, the NHS, and the private and voluntary sectors. The awards scheme is a joint venture between the MOD, Department of Health, the Welsh Assembly, the Scottish Government and Northern Ireland's Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety. The MOD is the host department for the 2008 awards.
Military and Civilian Health Partnership Awards - 2008 Shortlist:
Deployed Healthcare
* Ministry of Defence and National Health Service Partnership, Oxford - Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust - Adult Intensive Care Unit
The Critical Care Air Support Teams providing worldwide repatriation of the most critically ill and injured service personnel in conjunction with the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust ICU.
* Sergeant Mark White, RAF Lyneham, Chippenham, Wiltshire, nominated by Officer Commanding Deployed Air Response Team Squadron, Officer Commanding
Tactical Medical Wing Has been nominated for the initial treatment, safe boarding on aircraft, and continued care of 16 casualties wounded in a suicide bombing.
* Medical Emergency Response Team (Enhanced), Op Herrick, Christmas and New Year 2007 - Medical Emergency Response Team (Enhanced) members from Royal Army Medical Corps, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force Medical Emergency Response Team, based at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, providing resuscitation and pre-hospital critical care over Christmas and New Year period
Innovation in Service Development
* Humber Traumatic Stress Service - Humber Mental Health NHS Teaching Trust
A specialist trauma service providing priority care to veterans, with direct access to regular and frequent care sessions.
* Ministry of Defence and National Health Service Partnership, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust, Adult Intensive Care Unit
The Critical Care Air Support Teams providing worldwide repatriation of the most critically ill and injured service personnel in conjunction with the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust Intensive Care Unit.
* New In-patient Mental Health Facility in British Forces Germany - BFG Health Service
The opening of a new inpatient mental health unit, providing a wider range of treatment and recreational facilities, tailored programmes, and a teaching psychiatric environment.
* Defence Patient Tracking System - Defence Medical Services Department, Defence Analytical Services and Advice and Joint Medical Command, London
Introduction of a patient tracking system allowing all contributing agencies to record and retrieve information from a single authoritative source.
Education and Training
* Critical Care Air Support Team (Equipment) Training Flight, Tactical Medical Wing, RAF Lyneham, in collaboration with the John Radcliffe Hospital, critical care units
The provision of training and education for RAF medical and nursing staff to deliver aeromedical critical care.
* RAF Paramedic Training - Chief of Staff Health/Director General Medical Service (RAF) Department HQ AIR and Great Western Ambulance Service
Partnership for the training of RAF personnel to Registered Paramedic standard.
* Combat Casualty Care Training - Royal College for Defence Medicine, Birmingham
Development of training courses for trauma and disaster medicine.
Health Improvement and Promotion
* Implementing Change after Research into Ethnicity of Peripheral Cold Injury - The Army Primary Health Care Service and the University of Surrey Research project into the ethnicity of cold injuries resulting in changes in training and issue of equipment and clothing.
* The Heat Illness Clinic at the Institute of Naval Medicine - Institute of Naval Medicine, Environmental Medicine Unit, Gosport, Hampshire The investigation of military patients who have suffered heat injury.
* Anthrax Vaccination: Side effects and informed choice - The King's Centre for Military Health Research, London Investigation of ill health in Gulf War veterans leading to changes in administering of vaccinations.
* Ministry of Defence and National Health Service Partnership, Oxford - Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust - Adult Intensive Care Unit The Critical Care Air Support Teams providing worldwide repatriation of the most critically ill and injured service personnel in conjunction with the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust Intensive Care Unit.
Mental Health
* Kings College cohort study - The King's Centre for Military Health research and Academic Centre for Defence Mental Health, London Mental health research and partnership between the National Health Service and the Defence Medical Services.
* New Inpatient Mental Health Facility in British Forces Germany, BFG Health Service
Improved access to a multidisciplinary mental health service across BFG.
* Reservist Mental Health Programme - Reservist Training and Mobilisation Centre, Chetwynd Barracks, Chilwell, Nottingham
Delivering mental health services to demobilised military reservists who have deployed on operations.
Care of Veterans
* Accelerated access for Veterans - Hull Teaching Primary Care Trust
Providing accelerated access to NHS services, where a referring practitioner suspects that any condition is related to their military service.
* BLESMA for Life - British Limbless Ex-Service Men's Association, Chadwell Heath, Essex
Providing physically challenging and emotionally stabilising rehabilitation opportunities for amputees, within a unique fellowship of fellow patients.
* Humber Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust
Specialist trauma service providing veterans with priority care and direct access to Psychology and Occupational Therapy services.
Healthcare Reservist of the Year
* Doctor Mark Sheridan, Altnagelvin Hospital, Londonderry, nominated by the Western Health and Social Care Trust.
Dr Sheridan is nominated for his input as a consultant anaesthetist, treating patients in difficult operational conditions as a member of the medical retrieval team flying into hostile territory.
* Lieutenant Colonel Ackerman, TA Centre Llandaff North, Cardiff, nominated by Colonel Phillip Hubbard, Commanding Officer, Brigade Commander 203 Field Hospital
Lieutenant Colonel Ackerman is nominated for her deployment as the Clinical Director Field Hospital in Afghanistan, evaluating and mentoring military healthcare professionals in their adaptive foundation training prior to moving into theatre of operations.
* Colonel Sam Rawlinson, East of Scotland Blood Transfusion Centre, Edinburgh, nominated by the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service
Colonel Rawlinson is nominated for tours of duty in Iraq and advisory tours to Iraq and Afghanistan, proving specialist transfusion medicine advice and expertise to trauma surgeons.
Team of the Year
* Joint MOD/Department of Health Smoking Cessation Project - Defence Medical Services Department and Department of Health, London
Development of a smoking cessation service that works in a military environment.
* Joint Theatre Clinical Case Conference, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham
Establishment of a conference facility between deployed field hospitals, the receiving NHS hospital in Birmingham, the aeromedical cell in Brize Norton and the rehabilitation centre in Headley Court.
* Phoenix NHS Stop Smoking Service Network (MOD) Healthy Communities - Lincolnshire Teaching Primary Care Trust and Lincolnshire County Council
Stop smoking promotion in Lincolnshire by a MOD and NHS partnership.
Notes to Editors:
1. The 2008 awards were open to military or civilian members of the Defence Medical Services, NHS or independent sector healthcare professionals, either on an individual or team basis, who have benefited the care of a member(s) of the Armed Forces. This included veterans and their dependants.
2. The awards were launched on 12 May at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, and nominations closed on 5 July. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/DefencePolicyAndBusiness/AwardsRecogniseDefenceMedicalStaff.htm
3. Further information on the health partnership awards, including can be found at http://www.dmsd.mod.uk, the Military and Civilian Health Partnership website.
4. The origins of the Royal Hospital Chelsea date back to the 17th century. Nowadays it provides accommodation and medical care to retired soldiers of the British Army. It has a fully staffed Infirmary and also runs an out-patient service for the Chelsea Pensioners. http://www.chelsea-pensioners.co.uk.
