Best Schwartz innovation
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (winner)
Imperial’s entry ‘opening doors’ acknowledged a lack of representation from senior managerial colleagues/ policy makers within the trust and began establishing various approaches to encourage engagement from this demographic – including getting involved at existing staff events. As a result: senior management attendance increased from 13%-28% and ensured more key supporters at executive level: including CEO and Director of Nursing. This project has also provided learning to be spread to other equally “hard to reach” groups including ward nurses and HCAs.
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Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust (winner)
Derbyshire’s entry ‘Reaching out…Running Schwartz Rounds across a large rural community trust’, transcended logistical difficulties of running Rounds across a wide geographical area. It depicts an innovative and energetic plan for the future to continue to engage staff from all over the county and demonstrates evident commitment and support from admin and steering group. By continually building a network of clinical leads and facilitators, they ensure they feel supported and are able to perform their role well.
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Photo competition
Hammersmith and Fulham GP Federation (winner)
Hammersmith and Fulham’s entry ‘Hugs’, captures some of the core components of Rounds. The photo depicts the way in which Rounds can create a culture of openness and promote connectedness between staff within an organisation.
Most powerful Round
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (winner)
Basildon and Thurrock’s entry ‘Mission Impossible’, outlines a Round where a senior nurse, senior finance team member, a junior doctor, and a recruitment lead are come together to depict, reflect and encourage audience reflection on the challenging and contentious topic of staffing. Each panelist reflects on their role and responsibilities and the impact current staffing challenges has on their work within the trust. As a result of the panel stories and reflection from the audience “the conversation moves along from anger to compassion to a sense of pride.” The Round ends with a feeling that “through support and understanding of each other, hope, resilience and optimism arise.”
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University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay (winner)
Morecambe Bay’s entry ‘Bending the Rules’, outlines a Round which gave a voice to Admissions Lounge Staff – who had the chance to illustrate the unique difficulties they face. This submission demonstrates the potential ripple effects that can happen as a result of Rounds – despite maintaining Rounds as a non-problem solving space. It demonstrates team members gaining insight and understanding of panellists roles.
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Poster competition
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (winner)
Michaela Tait’s poster portrays the journey and impact of Schwartz Rounds in a creative, clear and colourful way. It includes imagery and information of all aspects of the Round and depicts a picture of a successful past an optimistic future for Rounds at Milton Keynes University Hospital. Michaela’s poster demonstrates that the reach of Rounds have extended to a wide and diverse range of staff and are valued by all where 100% would recommend Rounds.
Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (winner)
Derby Teaching Hospitals entry ‘A compassionate care lifeline’ portrays the journey and impact of Schwartz Rounds in a creative, clear and colourful way. The poster highlights the positive past of Rounds in their first year – and an optimistic future with plans for more innovation and engagement. It demonstrates that the reach of Rounds have extended to a wide and diverse range of staff and are valued by staff who attend. We especially liked the staff members placed inside safety rings – cleverly and creatively depicting Rounds as lifebuoys for staff.
Shining Star
Becky Platt and David Gaunt from West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS (winner)
West Hetfordfordshire’s entry identified Becky and David as individuals with “commitment, compassion, credibility, people-skills and indefinable magic”. West Hertfordshire’s Rounds are very well-attended by a wide mix of staff and feedback is nearly always exceptional. They describe Rounds as being “probably the most important thing we do to support our staff”. The entry describes Becky and David as having a truly inspirational partnership. The eye-contact and ‘language’ between Becky and David shows their intuitive and warm relationship.
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Graham Spencer from Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (winner)
Derbyshire Healthcare’s entry is a star studded, eye catching display. It highlights Graham’s dedication to sustaining Rounds – over a 6 year period so far. Graham is praised for mentoring others to help them embed and sustain Rounds and for bringing his own home-made pate to Rounds!
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Best Schwartz innovation
Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust (winner)
Ashford and St Peter’s were the first to create the concept of ‘Pop-up Rounds’: they gauged staff experience and directed staff to a form of Schwartz Rounds which was accessible to them. Their innovation has also helped to inspire many other organisations to run pop-ups. Farhana’s video beautifully demonstrated the process which led to this innovation, and also inspired the possibility of future innovations.
University of Liverpool (winner)
The University of Liverpool were the first to introduce multidisciplinary Rounds into their undergraduate curriculum, running Rounds to students from a range of education programmes. They are helping to address the important task of introducing reflection and openness to share vulnerability early on in training, and it is the importance of this innovation in enacting change that resulted in them winning the award.
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Photo competition
Yusuf Yousuf, North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust (winner)
Yusuf’s photo beautifully captures some of the core components of Schwartz Rounds in just one photo. It also emphasises how labels and hierarchies are not the focus in Rounds since they are an opportunity for sharing human experiences. The photo also stresses the need to stop and take time out in order to reflect.
Aoife Langton, Blackrock, Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services (winner)
This entry demonstrates how a simple photo can bring a story to life in your mind, with the image recalling Aoife’s memory of her final physio session with a dying patient who was in too much pain to get in the water: Aoife recognised that just sitting with the patient, just being there, was enough, and could in fact do more to relieve the patient’s emotional trauma than any treatment. The photo captures this sense of stillness and presence as something so simple and pure: the connection between two people in a peaceful space.
Most powerful Round
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust (winner)
West Herfordshire’s entry described the brutal reality of helping children who have suffered terribly, capturing the profound impact that one particular case had on staff within their organisation. It captured not only the power of Rounds in encouraging staff to open up and unite, but also the power of storytelling in inviting the opportunity for reflection.
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The Christie NHS Foundation Trust (winner)
The Christie’s entry, a story told by porter Robert Hardiman, highlighted the often unheard but vital connections that are formed between non-clinical staff and patients. The story also demonstrated how sometimes none of us really know what to say to patients, but that a connection can nonetheless exist. Most importantly, Rob’s story reminded us that connecting with patients on a human level and not shying away from the feelings that come with those connections is extremely valuable.
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Poster competition
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (winner)
SLAM undertook a thematic analysis to explore how the Rounds were experienced by staff. They identified why Rounds were valued, what the benefits were, as well as the barriers to implementation and proposed actions for ongoing sustainability. This was all creatively displayed using the image of a tree.
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Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (winner)
Wirral’s poster laid out the feedback that they had received from Rounds in a clear and simple way, also detailing wider organisational measures. They also summarised feedback comments in a visual-friendly wordgram, thereby bringing the experience of Rounds to life.
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Best Schwartz Round innovation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Devon Partnership & Royal Devon & Exeter
Hammersmith & Fulham GP Federation
Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust
Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
St Christopher’s Hospice
University College London Medical School
Schwartz Round photo competition
Michele Wood, Senior Art Therapist, Marie Curie Hospice
This photo conveys the power of the Rounds to bring people together from across the whole organisation. The photo is a collage of 30 hand shots, showing the hands of those who contribute to the success of our hospice Rounds. Together they capture moments of connection, which not only ensure the safety of our Rounds, but are also responses to the storytelling made possible in them.
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (1. The Schwartz Journey, Nicki Power)
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (2. Time to Heal, Nicki Power)
Most powerful Schwartz Round
Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust
Princess Alice Hospice
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Schwartz Round poster competition
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (1)
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (2)
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Blackrock, Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services
Heart of England Foundation NHS Trust
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (1)
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (2)
Ipsiwch Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Islington Community Education Provider Network
Marie Curie, Hampstead
Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
University College London Medical School
Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust