Whittington Health awarded for Co-Creating Health initiative

Whittington Health is delighted to announce that we have won a national Diabetes Quality in Care Award for Co-creating Health.

 

The category, which recognised the best initiative for supporting self care was particularly praised for the way in which the scheme worked directly with patients to improve the quality of care.

 

This particular category was the most competitive, with the highest number of entries and the largest number of finalists, and it is a great testament to the initiative and those who have helped implement the scheme that have made Co-creative health such a success.

 

The Quality in Care programme enthused:

''Co-creating Health aims to transform the patient–clinician interaction into a collaborative partnership and to transform healthcare for people with long-term conditions by making self-management an integral part of care. At every stage of its development patients have been fully involved and are participating in a self-management programme, building skills to self-manage. Clinicians are undertaking an advanced development programme to develop consultation skills. Services are being improved to support self-management, and skills and learning are being spread and shared.'

 

Dr Maria Barnard, Lead Consultant in Diabetes said on receiving the award: ‘I have been constantly amazed at the amount of time, effort and energy people have given freely to this project.’ ‘And I think it is important to recognise that this is not just those who are directly involved, It's everyone involved in the front line, caring for patients with diabetes, using the CCH skills, developing service improvements, collecting data and our local people living with diabetes’

 

If you want to have a look at some of the other entries, or would like more information about ‘Quality in Care’, please click on the following link: