UK IVTEAM win award
A new IV team were the overall winners at the Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust’s annual awards for staff innovation and excellence. Sian Bloomfield, Bev Waller and Bernie Coll are the “IV Team”.
This team tours Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and the Calderdale Royal Hospital, advising staff on the best ways of inserting tubes into patients as a way of reducing the risk of infection.
The Team won the £5,000 Gordon McLean Award, to be re-invested in the project.
Bev said: “We are shocked but very pleased; but this is not just our success.” Sian said: “This is the success of staff on the wards as they are the ones making the changes.”
The team has created new documentation, standardised equipment and set up a special IV trolley. It is so good the Government’s Health Department wants to widen its use among other hospital trusts.
I would also like to congratulate them… well done to you all… keep up the good work.
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Hi Andrew
Thank you very much for your congratulations, how did you get to hear about our success?.
We are all very pleased.
Regards Bev
Hello Bev
Now you know its my job to know everything in the IV world
Well done again. IV therapy is changing so rapidly (and positively) in the UK… its great to be part of it