A QEH nurse who has dedicated herself to improving care for Parkinson’s patients following her own diagnosis, joined colleagues to pick up a prestigious national award for their work on a medicine safety campaign.
Tincy Jose, a Charge Nurse in the hospital’s Acute Medical Unit, is a member of the NHS Professionals’ Living and Working with Parkinson’s group. Together they campaigned to raise the awareness of the importance of delivery time-critical medication on time, every time.
Last Monday (18 September), Tincy and her colleagues attended a dazzling Health Service Journal (HSJ) Patient Safety Awards in Manchester and won the Patient Involvement in Safety Award in collaboration with the Parkinson’s Excellence Network.
A record-breaking 516 entries were received for the HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2023, with 206 organisations, projects and individuals making it to the final shortlist, following two rounds of rigorous judging.
The award celebrates the patient-led campaign to ensure that patients with Parkinson’s receive their time critical Parkinson’s medication on time, every time in hospital.
Tincy was diagnosed with Parkinson’s four years ago and is committed to helping educate colleagues at the hospital through her own experience. She works closely with the ward’s clinical nurse educator to help make sure the right policies are in place.
She said: “It was such a wonderful evening. The atmosphere was amazing, and I was so happy when I heard our name announced as the winners.
This national recognition is so important in raising awareness of the importance to deliver time-critical medication on time, every time.”
Alice Webster, CEO at QEH, said: “Everyone at Team QEH is thrilled for Tincy and her colleagues at the NHS Professionals – Living and Working with Parkinson’s group. This is a fantastic achievement and very well deserved by all involved.”
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Notes to the editor:
About the HSJ Patient Safety Awards.
The most coveted accolade in UK healthcare, the HSJ awards is the largest annual benchmarking and recognition programme for the health sector. For more than 40 years, the awards have been celebrating healthcare excellence through huge political, technological and financial challenges within the sector. Through a rigorous, fair and transparent judging process the awards produce a roll call of the best organisations, teams and people in the NHS and the wider health sector.
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