Welcome to Belfast Trust Chairman’s Awards 2024
This evening we are celebrating you and your teams for the incredible work you do and care you provide across the Trust.
This year we received a record breaking number of submissions for consideration and your entry has been selected as one of the contenders out of the 268 nominations.
Congratulations on being shortlisted and we hope you have a fantastic night!
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Chairman's Awards Evening
6.15pm Arrival of guests Mocktails served in the Rotunda
7.00pm Performance by The Rock Choir 7.15pm Welcome and Introduction by Ciaran Mulgrew, Chairman Dinner served following Chairman’s Address
8.45pm Performance by Equal Notes 9.00pm Awards Ceremony 9.45pm Thanks and Close by Ciaran Mulgrew, Chairman 
Main Course
Free range Irish chicken with a Hillstown bacon and leek sauce, Co Antrim buttery mash and seasonal market vegetables
Vegetarian dish
Winter vegetable tagine and herb cous cous
Dessert
Toffee meringue gateau with freshly whipped cream and warm toffee sauce
Thompson’s family blend tea or Johnson’s after dinner blend Coffee
Petit four
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Acute Innovation of the Year
This category reflects an innovative piece of work that a service have undertaken in an acute setting.
NEWtrition – Creation of a new Parental Nutrition system for sick new-born infants
Directorate: Trauma, Orthopaedics, Rehab, Imaging, Medical Physics and Outpatients
A multidisciplinary team created a range of pre-formulated parental nutrition solutions results in NICE compliant, optimised neonatal nutrition with significant cost and time savings.
Reducing the environmental impact of inhalers in a paediatric ward
Directorate: Child Health, NISTAR, Maternity, Dental, Gynae and Sexual Health
Reducing the number of inhalers thrown away that contain active medication and recycling plastic components. Encouraging witches to lower CO2 footprint inhalers.
Belfast Complex Aortic Service
Directorate: Anaesthetics, Critical Care, Theatres, Sterile Services and Surgery
A collaborative multidisciplinary approach to the management of patients with complex aortic disease.
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Community Innovation of the Year
This category reflects an innovative piece of work that services have undertaken in the community.
Belfast Wide Early Years Partnership Programme
Directorate: Adult Community, Older People’s Services and Allied Health Professionals
Working in partnership: AHPs, Education and voluntary sector developing a specialist programme to support preschool autistic children with significant additional needs in their local communities.
‘Home is where the Health is’…… implementing pharmacist medicines optimisation in older people at home to reduce ED attendance and hospitalisation
Directorate: Cancer and Specialist Services
Two new pathways were developed and evaluated to review the impact of a pharmacist role on medicines optimisation for older people in their own home, at risk of falls (community falls pharmacist) or struggling to take their medicines as prescribed (medicines adherence pharmacist).
Northern Ireland New Entrants Service
Directorate: Children’s Community Services
Development of Family Help Service, one stop multidisciplinary clinic.
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Enhancing Care through Technology
This category reflects services that have used technology to improve service user care.
The use of virtual reality to enhance a new collaborative ENT and Anaesthetic airway teaching course
Directorate: Anaesthetics, Critical Care, Theatres, Sterile Services and Surgery
The use of virtual reality simulation was used within a novel collaborative ENT & anaesthetic trainee teaching day, aimed at improving emergency airway skills.
NI Cancer Centre SABR team: Pushing boundaries of cancer treatment through multi-disciplinary innovation
Directorate: Cancer and Specialist Services
The SABR team use ultra-high dose radiotherapy to treat areas of cancer spread allowing patients to avoid long courses of chemotherapy and help quality of life as well as being economically beneficial for the Trust.
Field of Vision
Directorate: Adult Community, Older People’s Services and Allied Health Professionals
Technology used to enhance and enable a service users life who is Deaf Blind, supported by the Sensory Support Team.
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Excellence in Communication and Engagement
This category reflects services that have made an impact through demonstrating excellence in communication and engagement.
Developing a new Inflammatory Back Pain Pathway – engaging widely to improve patient care
Directorate: Cancer and Specialist Services
Collaborating on axial spondyloarthritis at local, regional and national levels to increase awareness while creating a Belfast Trust referral pathway to reduce time to diagnosis.
Take a Stand – Tackling Domestic Abuse in Intimate Teenage Relationships
Directorate: Social Work
The Take A Stand Project is an evidence based initiative aimed at addressing domestic abuse in teenage relationships.
Children’s Symptom Checker
Directorate: Child Health, NISTAR, Maternity, Dental, Gynae and Sexual Health
We developed a trustworthy, reliable and easy to use online resource to empower parents to make informed decisions about their child’s health when sick.
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Excellent Use of Data
This category reflects what imaginative or effective ways services have used data and how it made a difference to patients.
Adult Safeguarding referral App and monthly activity reporting
Directorate: Social Work
The developments of an Adult Safeguarding referral app, leading to a monthly activity report, has strengthened service area oversight, and improved patient safety.
Using data to understand our service user population, inform practice and training needs within CAMHS
Directorate: Mental Health, Intellectual Disability and Psychological Services
We have developed a standard process for collection, collation and analysis of Routine Outcome Measures to evidence service effectiveness across CAMHS.
MPH Pharmacy – Preventing medication related delays for Orthopaedic surgery inpatients
Directorate: Cancer and Specialist Services
Implementing changes to how medicines are managed for elective surgery inpatients can improve patient flow and increase patient safety.
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Innovation in Mental Health and Wellbeing
This category reflects an innovative piece of work that services have undertaken to help improve mental health and wellbeing.
Team Haem Goes Green
Directorate: Adult Community, Older People’s Services and Allied Health Professionals
Team Haem Goes Green (THGG) was a pilot project undertaken in collaboration with patients of the Northern Ireland Haemophilia Service and The Conservation Volunteers (TCV).
Improving Joy in Work in Beechcroft
Directorate: Mental Health, Intellectual Disability and Psychological Services
A project to improve Joy in Work and staff wellbeing in Beechcroft using novel staff ideas such as complementary therapies and a staff and patient choir.
Hello Carers Activity Programme – Reaching into the Heart of the Community
Directorate: Performance, Planning and Informatics
The Carer Support Service implemented an innovative mental health and well-being programme in Belfast embracing a Peer Support Model – ‘The Hello Carers Activity Programme.’
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WOW
The category recognises everyday staff who make a positive contribution to the lives of patients, service users, visitors and colleagues.
Solis in Mater Together
Directorate: Unscheduled Care
Mater Together – a fully integrated programme of creativity, involving the entire Mater family, with the staff and patients wellbeing and safety at the core.
Court Children’s Service
Directorate: Children’s Community Services
To acknowledge the commitment of the social workers to helping children involved in difficult court proceedings.
An amazing day out – one patient, two teams and a whole lot of courage
Directorate: Child Health, NISTAR, Maternity, Dental, Gynae and Sexual Health
The NISTAR & RICU team led by Dr Davison worked together to give a positive experience to a patient in Intensive Care for over 600 days.
Intensive Adolescence Support Service with complex and high risk Belfast young people including Separated/Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children
Directorate: Children’s Community Services
To showcase the innovative work of the Intensive Adolescence Support Service with complex and high risk Belfast young people, including separated/unaccompanied asylum seeking children.
The impact of the SWAN Team on vulnerable women and their families in the perinatal period
Directorate: Child Health, NISTAR, Maternity, Dental, Gynae and Sexual Health
This entry is to acknowledge the work of the SWAN Team in the RJMS, and the impact on vulnerable women in the perinatal period.
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Special Recognition
A multidisciplinary team implemented the encompass programme which introduced a single, digital healthcare record across Belfast Trust on Thursday 6 June. This has transformed the way care is recorded ensuring an effective, safe and world class experience for our patients, service users and staff.