2025 Winner
Empowering people with diabetes to prepare for a safer hospital stay
Christina Lange Ferreira, SHINE Study team (Dr Hellena Habte-Asres, Prof Angus Forbes and Dr Kirsty Winkley at King's College London) & Wye Valley NHS Trust Diabetes Specialist Team (Dr Jyothish Govindan and team) and with thanks to the staff and people with diabetes who participated in this project
Purpose built tools supporting staff & patients prepare for hospital admission. Please follow the links below to view the infographics and resources available. You can also visit the SHINE website for more information
2025 Runner up
Insulin Safety Dashboard: A teaching hospital experience in using dashboards to improve safety through a systems thinking approach
Dr Sowmya Gururaj Setty, with Fiona Adlam, Helen Atkins, and Kelly Milton, working with the inpatient diabetes team at University Hospitals of Leicester, and with thanks to colleagues across clinical services who supported this work.
The monthly Insulin Safety Dashboard was used to identify early safety alerts related to inpatient hyperglycaemia. Using the Iceberg Model, a systems thinking tool, we looked beyond the alerts to explore underlying patterns, processes, structures, and assumptions driving high alert rates. This deeper understanding enabled the identification of key leverage points and the delivery of targeted, low-cost interventions to improve insulin safety, strengthen communication, and support safer inpatient diabetes care.
