Two combined nominations saw the Frailty Short Stay Unit team pick up the Work Together Get Results Award.

Ward Manager, Tara Leach, and some of the team accepted the award. Tara said: "The essence of our success is purely in the name of the award - working together to get results. The Frailty Team works right across the Trust.

"But it’s not just us on the unit - everybody’s opinion and mindset as an MDT matters. We're here to support our patients to be where they need to be, which isn’t always in hospital.  I think the rest of the team will be shocked. Frailty’s here to stay and we’re just getting better and keep improving."

Here is a little of the nomination: “The frailty short stay unit was opened last December with the goal to improve the frail person’s journey in hospital. They provide continuity and coordinate care for our complex frail older population with a home first approach from day of initial assessment. This work involved two teams coming together in new unit sharing skills, values and goals working together with various members of MDT working in collaboration with families and significant others at the centre of this.

“All members of team worked flexibly - from the ward clerk, housekeeper, healthcare, nurses, senior ward team, frailty therapy and rehab assistants to the frailty ACPS in a new area and medical team all working with shared vision.

“The team has done this not without its clear challenges - including having to recruit and entire new team for this unit, a rapidly expanding bed base, and with limited equipment initially. The team have embedded from the start the principles of well organised ward, such as plan for every patient, boards rounds, coordinator roles which has supported clear care planning for patient on the unit avoiding unnecessary delay in treatment and discharge.”

Well done our other finalists: Children’s Speech and Language Team, Principal Clinical Psychologist Dr Emma Bishop, Operations Manager Georgia Kelly and the Hospital Specialist Palliative Care Team (HSPCT) In-Reach service at CRH.