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Innovator in Care Award
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2025 Winner: The Myton Hospices
The Myton Hospices’ GP Information Clinic, led by Community Engagement Manager, Olivia Bowskill, represents a ground-breaking approach to improving access to palliative and end of life care. It has been developed in partnership with local Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and the clinic embeds specialist hospice support directly within GP practices, offering patients and their families timely, personalised guidance at a point when it can have the greatest impact.
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2024 Winner: Jennifer Hadley, Garden House Hospice Care
The panel were impressed by Jennifer Hadley’s work to set up a ‘frailty in reach’ service at her local hospital after recognising the needs of the population in North Hertfordshire, and the increasing numbers of patients presenting with frailty. Jenny is spreading the hospice ethos into secondary care, and the impact she is having is commendable for the patients and their loved ones. The panel felt this was a replicable model: patients with frailty are signposted and cared for at the front door.
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2023 Winner: Dr Christine Mott, Acorns Hospices
After caring for a young person at end of life who was experiencing Diabetes Mellitus, Dr Christine Mott and her team at the hospice were unable to locate a paediatric guideline. So, they brought together a group of organisations and endocrinologists from the UK and internationally to write one. Using the new Managing Diabetes Mellitus in Paediatric Palliative Care guideline, with its clear management recommendations, children and young people may be able to avoid the unpleasant symptoms and side effects of the medications, and to be supported in considering care options with palliative care staff who feel confident in providing these.
The team would like to dedicate this award to the memory of Lucy Watson who inspired this work.
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2022 Winners: Compton Care
The judges were delighted to recommend Compton Care for this Innovation project award, which identified a need for a ‘Rapid Response’ community service to manage crises and prevent unnecessary acute admissions. With their inpatient service’s response to Covid, patients’ and families’ focus for care at home remained constant, requiring support day and night - this required a team to respond to changing clinical pictures.
They aimed to make community resources more responsive, assessing and managing current and urgent needs, in addition to an intervention for fixed caseloads.
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2021 Winners: St Oswald's Hospice Lymphoedema Service
The pandemic accelerated innovation in care across the whole of the hospice sector, and St Oswald’s Hospice Lymphodema Service really stood out.
In March 2020, the St Oswald’s Lymphodema Service had to quickly pivot to provide much more domiciliary based care. To deliver this service, the hospice had to introduce a new volunteer role and recruit additional support. This not only gave a learning opportunity to these new and often younger volunteers, it gave patients the opportunity to share their stories - offering a positive impact on the potential next generation of health care workers and giving them an insight into hospice care.
