by
Sarah Turner
| Mar 21, 2024
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust (CCS NHST) is delighted to announce that our demographic data capture template on SystmOne has been shortlisted for the digital equality, diversity and inclusion award at the 2024 Health Service Journal (HSJ) Digital Awards.
343 entries were received for this year’s awards, which recognise innovative digital projects that transform care delivery, enhance efficiency, and improve patient outcomes, with 165 projects and individuals meriting inclusion on the final shortlist. The high volume and exceptional quality of applications once again mirrors the impressive levels of innovation and care continually being developed across the UK’s healthcare system.
Following the thorough judging process, CCS NHST was shortlisted ahead of the official awards ceremony which will be held on 6 June 2024, with its demographic data capture template on SystmOne standing out as a real success story worthy of a prized place on the panel’s shortlist.
By enabling comprehensive demographic data to be captured from patients and service users, the template is playing a key role in helping the Trust to identify and tackle health inequalities and stigma.
Mark Crannage, Associate Director of Business Information and Digital Systems, said: “We’re delighted to be a finalist in the HSJ Digital Awards 2024 and incredibly proud to have created a tool that will help us gain valuable insight into health inequalities across our region.
“The demographic questions are pivotal in enabling our staff to identify and help mitigate health inequalities, and service-users’ responses are helping us build a comprehensive ‘patient profile’, which will enable us to better understand individual needs and circumstances, some of which may put a person at risk of experiencing health inequalities.
“We’re committed to improving patient outcomes and quality of service and care, and aligning with the HSJ Digital Awards programme really allows us to share our success as well as everything we’ve learnt through implementing the project.”
HSJ editor Alastair McLellan, added: “It always gives me great pleasure to congratulate our finalists at this stage of the judging process and this year is no exception as we acknowledge CCS NHST for being shortlisted in the category of digital equality, diversity and inclusion.
“We can’t wait to welcome our finalists to the awards ceremony in June, celebrating their impressive achievements and jointly acknowledging our values of sharing best practice, improving patient outcomes and continuously driving for better service.”
The selected winners will be announced during the awards ceremony at Manchester Central on 6 June 2024.
The 2024 awards judging panel was once again made up of a diverse range of highly influential and respected figures within the healthcare community, including; Olubukola (Buki) Adeyemo, Chief Executive, North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust, Hatim Abdulhussein, National Clinical Lead, AI and Digital Workforce (WT&E), NHS England, Dame Margaret Whitehead, Chair, Independent Review Equity in Medical Devices and Luke Readman, Regional Director of Digital Transformation, NHS England (London).
The full list of nominees for the 2024 HSJ Digital Awards can be found at https://digitalawards.hsj.co.uk/shortlist-2024
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Notes to Editors
For more information/media enquiries relating to the 2024 HSJ Digital Awards, please contact Rebecca Bright via email at rebecca.bright@wilmingtonplc.com or telephone +44 20 7608 9056.
For further information about Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust, please contact our communications team on 0300 555 6655 or email ccs.communications@nhs.net