Rowan Hillson Inpatient Diabetes Awards

Rowan Hillson Inpatient Diabetes Awards 2026

2026 award details to be announced soon

2025 Winners

Winners: 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

Empowering people with diabetes to prepare for a safer hospital stay

Runner up: Dr Sowmya Setty, Andrea Graham, Fiona Adlam, Helen Atkins, Kelly Milton, University Hospitals of Leicester

Insulin Safety Dashboard: A teaching hospital experience in using dashboards to improve safety through a systems thinking approach

2024 Winners

Winners: Dr Vishakha Bansiya & team (Dr. Charlotte Boughton, Sara Hartnell, Dr. Aideen Daly, Candice Ward, and the Diabetes Outreach Team - inpatient diabetes specialist nurses and specialist dieticians, Caroline Taylor) - Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (Cambridge)

Pilot real world implementation of fully closed loop insulin pump for inpatient glycaemic management in patients with non-type 1 diabetes

Runner up: Dr Helen Partridge & team (Jacqueline Ryder, Nicola Stacey, Claire Pinder, Dr Carla Figuereido, Lindsey Rouse, Becca Smith, Zainab Abdul Raheem) - University Hospitals Dorset with Dorset all age eating disorders service (Bournemouth)

Inpatient diabetes management and support of people with type 1 diabetes and disordered eating T1DE in an eating disorders unit

2023 Best innovation to improve patient safety when discharging from hospital

Winner: Dr Chung Thong Lim and colleagues at Luton and Dunstable Hospital, Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

A new online patient flagging system for effective and safe diabetes patients’ follow-up when discharged from hospital. Further details in this article published in the British Journal of Diabetes.

Runner up: Emma Green and colleagues at Derriford hospital, University Hospitals Plymouth

2022 The best interventions: Redesigning, rebuilding, and maintaining safe inpatient diabetes care during COVID

Winner: Dr Punith Kempegowda on behalf of the DEKODE team, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

An innovative quality improvement project across hospitals during COVID to improve diabetes-related ketoacidosis (DKA) management and study DKA in people  with  COVID. Further details in this article published in the British Journal of Diabetes.

Highly Commended: Dr Adrian Li, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

2019 Best Perioperative Pathway for People with Diabetes

Winner: Dr David Burckett-St.Laurent, Consultant anaesthetist, Aneurin Bevin University Health Board

  1. Pre-operative Assessment Clinic
    1. 1a POSTER Pre-assessment plan job allocation
    2. 1b STICKERS Pre-assessment
    3. 1c REFERRAL Pre-operative Optimisation of Diabetes Clinic
    4. 1d Perioperative Diabetes Plans
  2. Cards and Posters for ward
    1. 2a CARD Peri-op quick reference card
    2. 2b POSTER Simplified practice and foot safety
  3. Charts for use on wards
    1. CHART Critical Care VRIII
    2. CHART Drug Management (NBM Procedures and Surg)
    3. CHART OBS VRIII (template)
    4. CHART Universal VRIII (Surg and Med)
  4. Service Evaluation and Audit
    1. 4a AUDIT Endocrine Led Peri-operative Optimisation of Diabetes clinic
      1. 4a1 DATA Referral to Endocine led Pre-operative Optimisation of Diabetes Clinic
    2. 4b SERVICE EVALUATION of Peri-operative Diabetes Care
      1. 4b1 DATA Peri-operative Diabetes Plans completed 4-18 to 4-19
      2. 4b2 DATA Pre-operative Optimisation of Diabetes referrals 15-1-20 to 6-3-18

Runner-up: Dr Nicola Leech, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

2018 Best Inpatient Educational Programme for Health Care Professionals

Winner: Dr Kath Higgins, Consultant in Diabetes Care, Clinical Lead for Inpatient Diabetes Care, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

2017 Improving Inpatient Diabetes Safety: Best Digital Initiative

Winner: Dr Stuart Ritchie, Consultant Physician, Western General Hospital, NHS Lothian

2016 Best joint pharmacy and diabetes team initiative to improve insulin and prescribing safety in hospital

Winners (2):

Dr Suma Sugunendran, Consultant Endocrinology and Diabetes and colleagues, Royal Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Sallianne Kavanagh, Health Education Leadership Fellow and colleagues: Safer Diabetes / Lead Clinical Pharmacist-diabetes,Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS FT

2015 Best UK Inpatient Hypoglycaemia Avoidance Initiative

Winner: Dr Gerry Rayman, Dr  Rajesh Rajendran, Christopher Kelly, Sarah Barker, Rachael Round, Anne Scott and the DICE Team, The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust

2014 Best in class’ insulin prescription chart

Winner: Dr Jenny Clayton, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust