For the sixth year running, our procurement team were excited to have been shortlisted for the UK National GO Awards 2021. We're extremely proud to have received the Highly Commended award for the COVID-19 Outstanding Response - NHS and Healthcare organisations category. This year the team was selected together with our partners, System C & Graphnet Care Alliance and Synertec.
Frimley Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) and South Central and West (SCW) are celebrating being finalists in the brand new NHS Communicate Awards. The 'Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in Communication' award recognises a partnership that is demonstrably championing diversity, inclusivity, and equality.
Oxfordshire CCG (OCCG), Oxford University Hospitals FT (OUH), Oxford Health FT, and SCW are celebrating our shared success in the Diabetes Care Initiative of the Year category at the HSJ Value Awards. The award was in recognition of the development of the diabetes dashboard, an initiative that uses data to improve the care of people with diabetes across Oxfordshire.
From October 2021 everyone over the age of 40 will be able to get a free blood pressure check at their local pharmacy. This comes as the result of a successful pilot programme to test case-finding for hypertension in community pharmacies.
Friday 10 September 2021 marks World Suicide Prevention Day. This yearly campaign aims to raise awareness of suicide around the world.
Did you know...? Around 800,000 people die worldwide by suicide every year, that’s 1 person every 40 seconds. For each suicide, there are more than 20 suicide attempts (WHO). Men aged 45-49 and women aged 50-54 had the highest suicide rates in England and Wales in 2019. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in 15-29-year-olds (Samaritans).
Over the past year, the SCW IT service desk has been working towards the industry-standard Service Desk Institute (SDI) accreditation. In August the team were proud to achieve an excellent score and graded as 'Proactive'.
Our Director of Quality and System Performance, Liam Williams, represented SCW at the NHS Providers webinar 'Delivering for providers: Collaborating to deliver effective recovery.' Here we are sharing some of his key insights from the session.
Watch our two new short videos where experts involved in their regional COVID-19 vaccination programmes discuss important factors they learned were key to improve immunisation uptake.
On 19 May, we invited our health and care colleagues to join Elspeth Griffiths, SCW director of HR, workforce and OD and other panel members, to consider what the future looks like. Here is our round-up and top takeaways from the event.