We’re thrilled to share that we have been announced as the Gold winner of the ‘Most Impactful Partnership in Preventative Healthcare’ award at the HSJ (Health Service Journal) Partnership Awards, celebrating collaboration between Connect Health, Flippin ‘ Pain™, NHS North East and North Cumbria ICB, Tees Valley Sport Active Partnership, You’ve Got This and Teesside University.
Our Flippin’ Pain™ team, who strive to change the way we think about, talk about and treat persistent pain, had the honour of attending the prestigious awards evening, held at Evolution London, last night alongside many other worthy and admirable nominees.
The HSJ Partnership Awards celebrated the best collaborations between the NHS and independent sector, introducing a new judging system featuring gold, silver and bronze awards. Our Flippin’ Pain™ colleagues, Richard Pell (Campaign Director), Sam Fielding (Campaign Manager) and Paul Allan (Chief Operating Officer) attended the event and proudly collected the gold award!
There were over 188 finalist projects and Flippin’ Pain™ and partners stood out as a real ‘success story’ worthy of the gold award for improving understanding and management of pain across the local population and healthcare systems – Flippin’ The Way A Population Thinks About, Talks About, And Treats Chronic Pain – Tees Valley.
The project featured unique events and activities with local stakeholders including public seminars, workshops, and pop-ups to engage, educate, and empower public and health professional audiences with a modern understanding of pain science and management.
HSJ editor, Alastair McLellan, comments:
HSJ created the Partnership Awards in 2018 to celebrate and recognise the vital contribution made by the suppliers of goods and services to the quality and development of British healthcare.
This year’s awards demonstrate there is almost no NHS clinical or support service which does not rely – sometimes almost completely – on the efforts of external suppliers.
Almost any attempt to improve NHS productivity – the service’s greatest challenge – without working in concert with suppliers starts at a major disadvantage. Indeed, many of the best ideas for improving productivity do and will come from suppliers. Every one of the businesses on the Partnership Awards shortlist has shown the kind of thinking and determination it takes to deliver change in healthcare services. They should all be very proud of the efforts, our 28 winners especially so.
Richard said:
We are so pleased to have won! It’s testament to the wonderful partnerships we have in the North East, all of which are made up of people who are just as passionate about tackling the burden of persistent pain as we are. We’re lucky that Connect Health invests in our work to make such a difference to health inequalities. It really has been a pleasure working with everyone on this project and we are consistently thankful for the community around Flippin’ Pain™.
A huge well done and congratulations to the team!
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