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The sheer expertise and excellence on display meant our judges had an extremely difficult job coming to a decision. But here are the winners of the Occupational Health & Wellbeing Awards 2020
Covid-19 has made 2020 an immensely challenging year for occupational health. To that end, and perhaps unsurprisingly, responding to the pandemic has been a recurring theme within this year's Occupational Health & Wellbeing Awards.
The excellence on display across the board also meant our judges had their work cut out. But we do have our six winners, including for the first time a double winner in the shape of Swansea Bay University Health Board.
All have shown immense skill, resilience and creativity in overcoming challenges (especially pandemic-related ones); driving, effecting and embedding change; and showing evidence of benefit or improvement.
All our winners will receive special winners' certificates (both digital and physical) and over the coming months will have their team and work profiled online and within the pages of Occupational Health & Wellbeing.
Congratulations to you all, and keep up the good work!
Our awards sponsor
Our thanks must also go to this year's sponsor for the Occupational Health & Wellbeing Awards, healthcare company Reframe, for its support of this year's awards.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH TEAM OF THE YEAR (PUBLIC SECTOR)
Winner:
Swansea Bay University Health Board
i Bay University Health i's (SBUHB) occupational alth service had historically een delivered through a very traditional, paperbased clinical model, with more than 25,000 records spread across four sites - an inefficient system that was leading to delays and complaints. Because of the national shortage of )H professionals, a rethink s needed to ensure the :e was fit for purpose, w^w, ,B's transformation programme involved the creation of a new leadership team, investment in technology and the creation of a wider multidisciplinary team that included allied health professionals, who were upskilled to meet the service's needs.
Team members undertook training to become wellbeing "champions" and a focus on social events during lunchbreaks and outside of work enabled more cohesive working.
Paper records were abolished, which has facilitated a more timely response to issues and meant cancelled appointments can be reallocated swiftly. Using digital records has also reduced stress levels within the team, as team members...