HEALTH MATTERS 7 awards
Better Service recognised by HSE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
The Community Nutrition and Dietetic Service from the Health Promotion Department in HSE South was the overall winner of the HSE Achievement Awards in 2008. The service used an education programme for people with Type 2 diabetes, called the X-PERT Programme. Today, there are almost 80 HSE community dieticians trained as educators of the X-PERT Programme around the country.
T
he X-PERT Programme was developed in line with international best practice for people with Type 2 diabetes. As part of the programme patients spend time on planning lifestyle changes and making use of education sessions to help manage their diabetes.
Community dietician teams in all HSE
areas have worked towards implementing a strategy for the sustainability of high standard dietetic services by addressing the following:
• Establishing a licence agreement for X-PERT Ireland between HSE and X-PERT Health.
• Refining the evaluation programme to allow audit during future roll-out. Clinical, psychosocial, attendance and satisfaction outcomes are being audited.
• developing a quality assurance (QA) programme. QA commenced in 2007 addressing all aspects of the programme and QA of educators.
• developing and delivering a ‘Train the Educator’ course to allow existing educators
to become skilled as trainers, who would then train other health professionals as X-PERT Ireland educators (2009). This latter development has facilitated the training of community dieticians to become educators by HSE community dietician trainers, avoiding the need to buy-in training from the uk. Three Irish ‘Train the Educator’ courses were completed during 2009/2010 in three HSE regions.
It is possible to support people with diabetes to self-manage when provided with
+ Dieticians trained as
X-PERT Educators, October, 2008. Front row: Barbara Shinners, Hilary Devine, Dorothy Loane, Deirdre Howlin, Carola Diettrich.
Middle row: Siobhan Sinnott, yvonne o Brien, Claire
Whitham, Trudi Deakin, Karen Harrington, Freda Horan, Anne-marie Tully. Back row: maria Browne, Caroline o Connor, Carina Corridon, Fiona Moloney, Marie Branigan, deirdre walsh, Emma Reilly, Cara
Cunningham, Margaret
Humphreys, Sheena Rafferty, Pauline Dunne, Olivia Kelly.
the highest Standards of Patient Education (SPE). X-PERT Ireland offers patients and the HSE benefits through optimisation of diabetes control. Dedicated research time facilitates services to successfully re-orientate to deliver better patient services. Ireland’s first SPE programme for Type 2 diabetes is in operation. A strategy for sustainability and national roll-out of X-PERT Ireland is possible through collaborative working, dedication and staff pride.
HSE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2010 The application process for the HSE Achievement Awards 2010 is now closed and applications are currently being evaluated by a Short-listing Panel. The evaluation process is scheduled for completion by july 2010. The shortlisted applicants will then be
reviewed by a National Selection Panel comprised of representatives from HSE, partnership, patient/service user advocacy groups and independents. This final selection process will be based on the written applications and presentations from the selected applicants and is due to be completed by October 2010.
NATIONAL EVENT 2010 The national awards presentation ceremony will take place on Wednesday, 24th november in the Round Room in the Mansion House, Dublin. The Awards will be as follows: • The derek dockery Award for overall Best Project with two runners up (three awards) • Best Project from each region and runner up (eight awards)
At their discretion, the National Panel may make additional awards in the form of commendation for projects that excelled in particular criteria.
For further information email the National
Coordinator for the Achievement Awards Denise O’Shea
denise.oshea@hse.ie.
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