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Nottingham University Hospitals highly commended in the Royal Statistical Society’s Florence Nightingale Award for Excellence in Healthcare Data Analytics

The collaborative work of the Estates & Facilities team, Information & Insight team and Service Improvement & Transformation team at Nottingham University Hospitals have been highly commended in the Royal Statistical Society’s Florence Nightingale Award for Excellence in Healthcare Data Analytics.

The award, named after the celebrated nurse and statistician born 200 years ago this year, celebrates data analyst teams in the health and care sector whose work demonstrably delivers better outcomes for patients. It’s presented by the Royal Statistical Society and supported by the Health Foundation - an independent charity committed to bringing about better health and health care for people in the UK.   

The project which won the commendation was the Visual Management of Patient Movement for Quality Improvement .

 

Sandra Minich, Senior Improvement Lead at Nottingham University Hospitals, said, on behalf of the project team: "Patient movement is a critical enabler to hospital flow. The project enabled Estates & Facilities to redesign the delivery of portering services, and specifically patient movement, by creating a dashboard visualising the journey times, productivity and demand across hospital areas. It enabled the portering team to identify unwarranted variation and successfully design it out of the system, as well as accurately identify both demand and capacity for re-modelling future service provision. Among the benefits already realised are shorter waiting times for patients requiring moves, better utilisation of radiology slots and therefore more inpatient and outpatient activity, identification of opportunity to expand service provision, and releasing nursing time to patient care.”

 

Sygal Amitay, Advanced Analyst at Nottingham University Hospitals said:

"The success of the patient movement project is a great testimony to the power of data analytics and insight in driving quality improvement in healthcare. The analytical work enabled the project team to create compelling data stories, identify improvement opportunities and demonstrate the impact and benefit realisation of action taken. This project clearly demonstrates the benefits of embedding analysts in improvement teams from the very start of a project to realise the full potential of data. As an analyst, it is great to see growing recognition of the importance of data analytics in healthcare through organisations such as the Royal Statistical Society and the Health Foundation."

 

Donna Jones, Head of Facilities at Nottingham University Hospitals said: “Collaboration between clinical and non-clinical teams is the key to a successful project. As a support service to our clinical colleagues, we have a duty of care to explore every opportunity to fully integrate our services to improve patient experience, which is what we did on this project. Our patient movement teams interact with our patients on a daily basis and are just as committed to ensuring good quality patient care as our clinical teams are.”

 

The Royal Statistical Society said:
“The judging panel were impressed at this use of analytics in a novel setting to improve outcomes in their portering team, bringing about clear benefits for patients and also efficiency savings.” 

The president of the society, Deborah Ashby said: “Now, more than ever, data analysts play a crucial role in understanding health data for the benefit of patients, health services and national policymaking.

Florence Nightingale was the Society’s first female member, so it seems fitting to honour her contribution to statistics with this award. I would like to congratulate the winners and those commended for their amazing work, which is doing so much to improve health outcomes for everyone.”

 

Linda Pitchford, Head of Transformation at Nottingham University Hospitals said: “This is a great example of measurement for improvement supporting service change. The result is that we now have visualisation of all patient movement which has enabled us to identify benefits both in terms of patient experience but also staff experience. Prior to the data being available we did not have full sight of which patients staff were moving and which were being moved by porters. The new dashboard gives full oversight and frees up staffing time on the wards releasing time to care. Very proud of this collaborative piece of work - well done to all involved.”

 

Projects, such as the above, demonstrate that the use of patient data in analytics makes a tangible difference to patient care and the way that hospitals operate. Janet Bryan, a Ward Manager at Nottingham University Hospitals said: “Excellent feedback from staff for this project, it has helped to free valuable time that is needed to care for patients.”

Well done to everyone involved.

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