Health trust on shortlist for a trio of awards

South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, along with its partners, is a finalist in three categories of next week’s Medilink North of England Healthcare Business Awards.

It is among those shortlisted for Partnership with the NHS: Advances in Digital Healthcare, Partnership with the NHS: Acute Care and Partnership with Academia accolades.

Advances in Digital Healthcare entry relates to PET – an electronic tool that will link emergency and medical records with the resuscitation room in Children’s Emergency Department at Sunderland Royal Hospital.

Being developed with support from the trust’s research and innovation team and partners the University of Teesside and Komodo Digital, the interactive system will be used by clinical staff in the department to enter relevant information and retrieve reliable and accurate guidance.

This will reduce the possibility of human error, allowing the team to concentrate on making the correct clinical assessment of the patient.

Acute Care and Partnership in Academia entries relate to world-leading research into reducing the incidence of and improving survival rates from bowel cancer – also called colorectal cancer.

A collaboration of Newcastle University, the trust and the Northern Region Endoscopy Group has partnered extensively with national funders and industry to deliver multiple research studies.

The Colorectal Cancer Screening Prevention Endoscopy and Early Diagnosis project is now the focal point. NHS endoscopy units are recruiting up to 5,000 patients a year to help speed up research into the disease.