Tameside health partnerships highly commended in national awards

Two collaborative projects at Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust were awarded highly commended at this year’s national Health Service Journal (HSJ) Independent Healthcare Providers Awards.

The awards provide a national platform to recognise excellence, share success and highlight the growing role of independent healthcare providers within the NHS’s transformation journey.

Staff from Tameside and Glossop IC NHS FT and Stockport NHS FT were pleased to attend the awards with the support of project partner Inhealth. 

Inhealth Group partnered with both NHS trusts to deliver the South East Manchester Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) at the Crown Point Shopping Retail centre in Denton. The CDC offers high tech scanning, heart tests and other diagnostic services for over 24,000 patients per annum across both trusts.

Inhealth was shortlisted in the ‘Best Provider of Community and Primary Care’ category and awarded highly commended in the ‘Best Provider of Diagnostic Services’ category for an outstanding contribution to NHS 10 year plan through delivery of nationwide CDC programme.

Through innovative digital integration, workforce expansion and community engagement, InHealth has opened eight CDCs across the country in under two years, improving access and patient experience for over 150,000 people. This nationwide programme has helped to expand diagnostic capacity, reduce waiting times and bring care closer to home.

It demonstrates measurable improvements in NHS performance, exemplifies true collaboration and provides a scalable, replicable model for national impact. InHealth’s CDC programme sets a new benchmark for patient-centred, efficient and sustainable diagnostics across England.

A partnership between Anubix and Tameside and Glossop IC NHS FT was also recognised at the awards.

The ‘Raising Standards in Compassionate Death Care: Tameside & Glossop NHS Post Mortem CT (PMCT) Collaboration’ was shortlisted in the ‘Most Effective Contribution to Clinical Redesign’ category, and was awarded highly commended in the ‘Most Effective Contribution to Clinical Redesign’ category.

The PMCT service transforms death investigations through radiology-led, compassionate, non-invasive diagnostics. The service provides rapid, accurate cause-of-death determination, offers bereaved families dignity and reassurance, and reduces unnecessary autopsies.

Since its initiation, the service reduced the turnaround time for death investigations. The Trust also pioneered a virtual 6-month PMCT fellowship to raise standards. Our model improves NHS capacity, and brings clarity, care and respect to coronial investigations.