Last night in London over 500 of some of the most influential figures in healthcare came together for the BMJ Group Awards (including Hugh Grant who came as patron of healthtalkonline.org to accept the Health Communicator of the Year award on behalf of terminally ill winner and healthtalkonline.org founder, Dr Ann McPherson).

Here is the list of winners:

Research Paper of the Year
Recognises original research that has the potential to contribute significantly to improving health and health care

CRASH-2 trial collaborators, Clinical Trials Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
CRASH-2 trial collaborators, Shakur H, Roberts R, Bautista R, Caballero J, Coats T, et al. Effects of tranexamic acid on death, vascular occlusive events, and blood transfusion in trauma patients with significant haemorrhage (CRASH-2): a randomised, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet 2010;376:23-32.

Haleema Shakur and collaborators compared infused tranexamic acid against placebo among more than 20 000 recently injured patients in 40 countries who had major bleeding or were at risk of it. The drug significantly reduced both the overall mortality in hospital over the next month and deaths owing to bleeding.

Getting Evidence into Practice 

 This award recognises those who have successfully introduced evidence based improvements into patient care

Tuberculosis Project, International Hospital Kampala, Uganda

Microscopic Observed Technique (MOT) is a low-technology, low cost ($5) liquid culture-based methodology performed directly on sputum samples to diagnose Tuberculosis. It is simple to implement, especially in the developing world, and the programme is now run by Ugandan doctors, clinical officers, TB nurses and an increasing number of trained volunteers. This has led to increased rates of diagnosis and treatment of TB, and opening the doors to better management of TB not only in Uganda but across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Primary Care Team of the Year

 This award recognises GP practices that demonstrate improved outcomes in patient care

Rainbow Surgery, Cambridgeshire, UK
A partnership between the Rainbow surgery and the Gainsborough Foundation lead to promising results in detoxification of those seeking help with alcohol problems, most of whom receive this within 48 hours. Of one hundred patients seen in 30 months, 68% remained sober at 6 months and 60% at one year. This network also helps patients to rebuild their social lives. Because of its success, the project has now expanded to include other local surgeries.

Secondary Care Team of the Year

 This award recognises hospital teams that demonstrate improved outcomes in patient care

Paediatric Sickle Cell Disease Team, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, UK
By screening children with sickle cell disease with transcranial Doppler ultrasound, and electively transfusing those at high risk of stroke, this team at King’s College Hospital, London, reduced the number of children with infarctive strokes presenting to hospital to zero.

Medical Team in a Crisis Zone

This award celebrates an individual or team who has had an exceptional impact on a crisis situation

Doctors For You, Bihar Flood Relief Work 2008-09, India

Started in 2007 by “doctors in training” the NGO expanded its scope to disaster health after massive floods hit the Indian state of Bihar. Immediate relief, with special care to vulnerable victims, was provided by strategic deployment of 110 team members who treated 130,000 patients over 6 months via mobile clinics, district hospitals, relief camps of Art of Living and other NGOs. Preparedness of traditional birth attendants was enhanced for safe and sterile deliveries while hygiene and nutrition education was imparted to local communities for mitigating the disaster.

Junior Doctor of the Year

This award rewards the doctor in training who has done most to improve the world we live in or to inspire others

 Dr Dan Magnus, Paediatric Registrar, Severn Deanery, UK

Dan is a paediatric registrar with a special interest in Global Child Health, lecturer in Maternal and Child Health, and Co-Founding Trustee of KOP – a UK registered charity committed to improving the lives of orphans and vulnerable children in western Kenya

Best Improvement in Quality and Safety

This award recognises teams making measurable improvements to quality and safety of health care

 Inpatient Diabetes Team, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust set up a multidisciplinary team to perform a “failure-modes-effects” analysis of critical incident reports and patient stories of errors in managing diabetes in the trust. After four months, harm events reduced by 31% and hypoglycaemic episodes fell by 28%

Innovation in Healthcare

This category celebrates an individual, organisation or company that has shown excellence in health care through the development of technology, devices or therapeutics

Professor Subhashchandra Daga, MIMER Medical College, India

MIMER has developed an intervention which prevents a major proportion of neonatal deaths in developing countries; a styrofoam box with four breathing holes is used as a home incubator and a transporting device to keep babies warm.

Health Communicator of the Year

This award celebrates a journalist or other individual who has shown excellence in promoting understanding of medicine and health through the media

 Dr Ann McPherson, Medical Director, DIPEx Health Experiences Research Group, University of Oxford, UK

Ann founded DIPEx in 2001, inspired by having been diagnosed herself with breast cancer two years earlier and her appreciation of the need to expand the knowledge base of the subjective experience of illness. Ten years on, DIPEx has sections on 60 different illnesses based on interviews with over 2000 patients.

Excellence in Healthcare Education

This award recognises a project which demonstrates outstanding innovation in health care education and performance improvement

 Simulation and Technology - enhanced Learning Initiative (STeLI), London Deanery, UK

STeLI is a flagship initiative of London Deanery and it helps to support NHS London’s ‘Excellence in Education’ strategy.  Launched in 2008, STeLI has promoted the use of powerful educational technologies such as e-learning and simulation to reinvigorate the delivery of healthcare professional workforce training to promote patient safety and maintain high quality service delivery.

Clinical Leadership

Recognises a motivational and inspirational leader who has lead clinical teams with vision and clarity

Dr Ian Dufton, Consultant Child Psychiatrist and Clinical Lead, Bolton Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, UK

Ian was faced with the task of leading the service as it rebuilt and redeveloped to ensure sustainable investment, quality recruitment, retention of staff, all to achieve quality mental health care for Bolton young people and families.

Sustainable Healthcare

This award recognises a health care organisation that has gone beyond its core business to show outstanding and effective commitment to sustainable health care

NHS Nottinghamshire and the Nottingham Energy Partnership, UK

Since January 2008 NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire have worked together with Nottingham Energy Partnership to cut carbon emissions, reduce waste and improving efficiency and sustainability in social, financial and environmental terms.
The project has worked across; energy, waste, water and sewage, transport, behaviour change and procurement; reaching from the board room to the boiler house and from strategy to practical action.
 

BMJ Group Award for Lifetime Achievement

This award celebrates an outstanding contribution by an individual to improvements in medical research, clinical medicine, medical education, or public health

Professor Sir Richard Peto, Co-Director of the Clinical Trials Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Oxford University, UK

Richard Peto has contributed much to the decrease in neoplastic, vascular, and respiratory mortality from smoking, both in the UK and elsewhere.