welearn – Announcing the winners of the annual QIHD poster competition
December 7, 2018
After almost 500 staff votes and the sharp eyes of a judging panel, this week we saw the finalists of our first welearn poster competition come together for the grand awards Ceremony.
From an astonishing 65 posters submitted to the competition from across the Trust, 13 shortlisted finalists had an opportunity to showcase their posters, good practice, quality initiatives, innovation, research and partnership work that has resulted in an improvement for patients, relatives and colleagues.
Winner: £5000 Prize:
- Think Drink Improving pre-operative patient experience
Runners up:
- Pets are Woof-ing in Stroke
- Improving perioperative outcomes for patients undergoing elective lower gastrointestinal surgery
- A Child Friendly Phlebotomy Service
Announcing the finalists and winners, Kam Dhami, Director of Governance said, ”I’m delighted to say that we had an amazing turn out for our very first welearn poster competition with everyone thoroughly embracing the idea of sharing good practice and innovation.
Congratuations goes to this year’s winners and finalists but also to all of the other teams who developed posters and shared their ideas.
The posters will now be on display at Sandwell Education Centre and Hallam Restaurant after which they’ll tour our Trust.
Enjoy viewing the posters and finding out about the great quality improvement initiatives taking place across the Trust, and encourage your colleagues to do so too.
Following this year’s success will run the Poster competition again so starting thinking about your entries for 2019.”
As well as the prizes for the QIHD poster competition, we are also pleased to announce Stephanie Craig as the randomly selected winner of the £25 of shopping vouchers for voting in the competition.