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Heidi Cox wins the Academy for Healthcare Science award for Innovation at AHA Awards

Senior Clinical Biochemist Heidi Cox, from Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust, has won the Academy for Healthcare Science award for Innovation at the 2015 Advancing Healthcare Awards for her work developing the SUDI box, used to help determine the cause of sudden infant death.

Heidi Cox collects award

Heidi’s team aimed to create a coordinated system of obtaining and processing samples taken to help determine cause of death in infants who die suddenly and unexpectedly (SUDI), within an Emergency Department setting.  The SUDI Box is held in the paediatric resuscitation area of the Emergeny Department. When a death in infancy occurs, the Box is opened containing everything, the clinician has needs to detail information and collect the crucial peri-mortem samples that can provide clues as to why the

infant died.

After five years the box has been used in 32 cases and adopted by six trusts. All documentation is available to other trusts, including where to source everything needed to create your own system. More information is available from Heidi on Heidi.Cox@hey.nhs.uk or 01482 607801.

Finalists

The two other finalists in the AHCS Award for Innovation were Senior Clinical Scientist Gareth Price, of the Christie Hospital, Manchester, for his work in direct patient involvement with their own radiotherapy treatment delivery  and also the team from the University of Strathclyde and the NHS Glasgow Centre for Opthalmic research (Lecturer Mario Giardini, Research Associate Nigel Bolster and Research Fellow and Ophthalmology Registrar Iain Livingstone), for their work in Engineering a retinal imager for Peek, the portable eye examination kit

 

Other Healthcare Science winners

Other Healthcare Science winners at the AHA awards include:

  • Mark Cioni, Directorate service manager, bacteriology, and Catherine Pike, laboratory manager, of Path Links Pathology – winners of The Chief Scientific Officer’s award for clinical leadership
  • Keith Pearce, Martin Stout and Andrea Arnold of University Hospitals South Manchester  – winners of the NHS Employers award for inspiring the workforce of the future
  • Lynzee McShea, Senior Clinical Scientist (Audiology) at City Hospitals Sunderland FT  – winner of the Unite the Union award for working together with Chris Corkish (senior lecturer, learning disability nursing)
  • Erica Sosu, Medical devices trainer and equipment library service supervisor, King’s College Hospital NHS FT – winner of one of the Chamberlain Dunn Rising Star Awards

Other finalists include

  • Shaun Atherton, technical services manager, The Christie NHS FT – finalist in The Chief Scientific Officer’s award for clinical leadership
  • Erica Sosu, Medical devices trainer and equipment library service supervisor, King’s College Hospital NHS FT – finalist in The Chief Scientific Officer’s award for clinical leadership
  • Clinical Scientist Philippa Sturt and Trainee Clinical Scientists Robert Julian (trainee clinical scientist), of Mount Vernon Cancer Centre – finalists in the IPEM award for Patients as partners in science Award
  • Chief clinical technology officer Eliezer Kotapuri ) and chief executive and financial officer Samuel Sandoval, of  LifeLine Clinical Engineering Solutions – finalists in the IPEM award for Patients as partners in science Award
  • Specialist Clinical Technologists, Justine Barnecott and Darren Hornshaw, of Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust – finalists in the award for Outstanding work by a Support Worker or Technician

Full details of all the awards, the winners and the projects are available in the 2015 Advancing Healthcare Awards Brochure

 

 

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