Trust teams shortlisted for prestigious awards
Two teams at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust have been shortlisted for national awards.
Colleagues at Springbank ward – the pioneering in-patient recovery unit for women with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder – are among the finalists in the Nursing Awards organised by Royal College of Nursing.
The ward is located at the Trust’s Fulbourn Hospital site in Cambridge and the team (pictured) are one of only four to be shortlisted in the Mental Health Award category.
The judges said Springbank had been chosen for its “excellence and ethos”.
They continued: “Service users sometimes have high-level urges for self-harm. Instead of increasing restrictions, however, the nurses work on safety planning, education around choices and consequences, and coaching in dialectical behavioural therapy skills.
"The team builds therapeutic relationships with service users to make discussions more powerful, create trust and convey respect.
“No restraint or rapid tranquilisation has been used on the ward since 2018, and self-harm incidents have reduced, as have readmission rates. Service users say they feel they are treated with dignity.”
The RCN’s Nursing Awards take place on Friday, 10 November at Liverpool Cathedral.
Meanwhile, CPFT's Bladder and Bowel Service has been shortlisted in the Nursing Times Awards.
They are among the finalists in the Continence Promotion and Care category for their work in re-branding and promoting the team’s bladder and bowel service.
Clinical lead Jackie Robinson said: “The team are thrilled to have been shortlisted for this award. They really deserve this recognition.
“We’ve had fantastic support from the Trust’s community nurses, who criss-cross the area every day to treat and care for older patients and those term conditions, and through them we have given them the confidence and the tools to talk to patients about their continence needs.”
The finals of the Nursing Times Awards take place at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on 25 October.
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