Star Awards – 2020 Vision Prize for Integrated Care Pioneer of the Year and Local Primary Care Award for the Most Valued Service

October 23, 2018

Our annual Star Awards took place on Friday 12 October, with over 350 colleagues in attendance. It was a fantastic evening, celebrating everything that is good about our organisation.

This year’s 2020 Vision Prize for Integrated Care Pioneer was won by the Lawrence Kelly, Learning Works Centre Coordinator and the Local Primary Care Award for the Most Valued Service was awarded to our respiratory consultants.

Lawrence joined our organisation 15 years ago and worked as a training and development assessor in learning and development, supporting accredited staff progression and classroom based learning.

Later in his career, Lawrence took the opportunity to coordinate the newly formed learning hub, the Learning Works.  It has gone from strength to strength over the last five years, with innovative projects, many attracting external funding to make an impact in our local community and providing support, advice and guidance around development for our colleagues.

The respiratory medical team is made up of nine consultants, who work across both City and Sandwell Hospital.

During the last year, the team has embraced many important changes to the benefit of patients. They created a dedicated non-invasive ventilation unit at Sandwell Hospital and they were the first medical specialty to implement the consultant of the week model.

The team are also exploring new ways of with the GPs and integrated care, which opens up many new possibilities of looking after patients different and effectively. The team was selected as one of the Royal College of Physicians ‘Future Hospital Project’ sites which also led to them being shortlisted for a Health Service Journal award.

Check out the videos below to find out why Lawrence and the respiratory consultants were recognised for outstanding commitment.