Patient flow initiative wins innovation award

June’s Hospital Innovations 2018 event, held at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health at University College London, saw the presentation of the 2018 Lord Carter Award for Innovation to Morecambe Bay Clinical Commissioning Group and its technology partner, Strata Health. The two organisations were rewarded for the successful use by the CCG and number of other local healthcare providers across north-west England of a sophisticated Strata Health software system that has substantially improved patient flow, and the efficiency of transition of care across health and social services, in a sizeable area stretching from north Lancashire to the Scottish Borders.

Real-time flow software

The 2018 Lord Carter Award was presented during a drinks reception at the close of the one-day conference and exhibition on 6 June by IHEEM President, Pete Sellars (Lord Carter was unable to attend), to Clinton Schick, Strata Health’s MD, who accepted it on behalf of the various project partners for their successful use of Strata PathWays – a ‘real-time flow software solution’. In a phased project that began in October 2014, with Morecambe Bay CCG acting as the lead, the CCG itself, North Cumbria CCG, North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust, the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, all deployed the software platform, which Strata Health says allows care providers ‘to transfer patients seamlessly from all settings of care across their numerous healthcare facilities’