Among the winners was an initative to help reduce medicine errors for people being discharged from hospital, which earned the Best Collaboration honour. A team, led by Southern DHB Pharmacy Manager Craig MacKenzie and Dunedin School of Medicine Associate Professor Rhiannon Braund, is creating an electronic tool improving the transfer of medication-related information from hospital to general practice.
A surgical team is also working to improve support for patients being discharged from hospital and has earned a Health Services Delivery Grant. Consultant general surgeons Jon Potter and John Woodfield and Tracey de Woeps, a surgical sciences manager with the Dunedin School of Medicine, are creating an electronic post-surgery follow-up system with the ability for patients to automatically alert health practitioners in primary and secondary care when a problem develops.
Improving recovery while in hospital is the focus of another research project based around the use of more naturalistic light. The project, which also earned a Health Services Delivery Grant, is being conducted by Respiratory Medicine Consultant Dr Ben Brockway, Psychogeriatrician Associate Professor Yoram Barak and Assistant Research Fellow Kristina Aluzaite to investigate whether installing lights that mimic natural sunlight creates a better environment for patients and staff.
“It is great to see clinicians using their everyday clincial experiences and observations to make real change for our patients and communities. It is inpiring work,” says Chris Fleming, Chief Executive, Southern DHB.
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