Awards success for PICS

Congratulations to everyone involved in the Acute Home Visiting Service for Mid Notts, which won the Value for Money category of the NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Health and Care Awards this week! Gerald Ellis, Programme Manager GP Clinical Pharmacy; Mid Notts PCN Support, and AHVS Business lead said: “We are so proud of the service we deliver, and I was delighted to be joined by Dr Karen Fearn, GP at Collingham, CD for Newark PCN and participating GP on the HVS Oversight Group; Louise Kalka, Deputy Clinical Services Lead for PICS; and Eve Elliot, HVS Advanced Nurse Practitioner for PICS to celebrate.  (Photo: Gerald (right) with, from left, Karen, Louise and Eve.)

“We are very proud of the achievement and recognition for the brilliant work the team does and the benefits brought to patients and support for GPs. It was fantastic to shout about the excellent work across PICS with our system partners.” Gerald featured in the video highlighting the service on the night.

Nottingham West PCN was also successful at the awards, winning the Health Inequalities Award as part of the Broxtowe Learning Disability Collaborative. PICSie Clare Watson, Clinical Lead for Health Inequalities featured in the video on the night. The Nottingham West Pharmacy Cardiology Team was also shortlisted for the Best Outcomes Award.

Finally, well done to everyone involved in working with the PCNs – we were a finalist in the Excellence in Collaboration category of the East Midlands Chamber Business Awards for Nottinghamshire. Although we didn’t take the title, we were still delighted with the achievement. Thank you to Dr Milind Tadpatrikar, Clinical Director at Rosewood PCN, who attended the awards alongside Gerald Ellis.