INTERVIEW BY Amy Schofield
POSITIVE IMPACT The winners of the Joint Working Pf Award 2018, Senior Coloplast Care Nurse Ruth Christer and NHS Partnership Manager, Coloplast, Jonathan Walker, on the positive patient outcomes that come from working together.
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ongratulations on your Pf Award win, how did it feel when your name was announced? RC: I was stunned into silence; literally lost for words! JW: It came as a real surprise given the quality of entrants within our category so I was delighted when our names were read out. What does winning the Pf Award mean to you? RC: It is a huge honour, especially as it is such a prestigious award. In fact, I don’t think I realised how prestigious it was until after we had won! JW: It is an honour to win such a prestigious Pf Award and have our project recognised. We set out a few years ago with an idea of gaps within the patient pathways and have developed this service to address those gaps and provide patients living with a stoma with access to specialist nurse reviews in their GP Practices. It sounds simple, but we’ve had to navigate a number of challenges and ensure that what we do day-to-day provides patients with the very best experiences and outcomes. Our success within the initial project in partnership with NHS Northumberland CCG has resulted in over 4000 patients across 30 CCGs benefitting from our model of care.
