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HSJ award shortlist

Trust shortlisted for award

LNWH has been shortlisted for a national prize for its development and use of rapid testing so A&E staff can identify Covid-19 patients before they are admitted to hospital.

The trust increased the number of tests and refined their effectiveness during the course of a year when Ealing and Northwick Park hospitals treated thousands of covid patients.

It resulted in faster turnaround times for test results, improved patient safety and better patient flow with the time taken to confirm covid positive patients reduced from 17 hours to 13 minutes.

Testing processes developed by the trust were rolled out as a NHS national standard operating process on Christmas Eve 2020 to support other organisations going into the winter covid wave.

A member of staff noted that ‘rapid testing was the difference between having to save someone’s life in an ambulance outside the Emergency Department versus seeing them in the proper place of care.”

The trust has been shortlisted in the Acute Sector Innovation of the Year category of the Health Service Journal Awards.

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