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Hospital Doctors Receive Medical Society Awards
Posted: December 14th 2009
Local doctors working within the Trust recently received awards at a special President’s Prize Meeting of the West Herts & Watford Medical Society. The first prize was awarded to Dr Valerie Page for her project ‘Delirium, Drugs and Death’ and the second prize was awarded to Dr David Hackett, Michael van der Watt, Alison Robinson, Masood Khan, John Bayliss from the Cardiology Department for planning and delivering a modern
Cardiology service for West Hertfordshire.
The President's Prize Meeting is a joint venture between the West Herts and Watford Medical Society and the West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
Dr Page, Consultant in Critical Care said: "I am very proud and honoured to have received this award on behalf of all our doctors and nurses who work in Watford Intensive Care Unit. We are leading the country in the diagnosis and management of ICU delirium (acute confusion often quiet) in our patients. Delirium is associated with serious adverse outcomes, common in all ICU patients but usually missed".
Dr Page added: "With the routine use of a simple screening tool we are able detect our patients who develop delirium and so manage it early. The outcomes for our patients are better since we started delirium management and we believe it is related to it. The screening tool called the CAM-ICU as filmed on our ICU as an educational resource has had over 10 000 hits on You tube!"
Dr David Hackett, Consultant Cardiologist and Lead Clinician, Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratories said: "I am delighted to receive this award for the whole cardiology department. The team worked really hard to provide a comprehensive, consultant delivered, clinically efficient, cost efficient and high quality modern cardiology service for the population of west Hertfordshire.”
Dr David Hackett added: "This model of efficient and high-quality cardiac care is ground-breaking and unique for a district general hospital cardiac service in the UK."
The West Hertfordshire and Watford Medical Society has been in existence for nearly one hundred and sixty years and is one of the oldest of its kind in the country.
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Notes to Editors:
- Dr Page is on the committee of the European Delirium Association
- The Society has just over 220 members who work in general practice and as consultants in local hospitals or the community.
- The prizes were presented by Dr Michael Apple, President of the West Herts and Watford Medical Society a GP who works in Garston, North Watford.
- Picture caption: Dr Valerie Page and Dr Hackett receiving their awards from Dr Michael Apple, President of the West Herts and Watford Medical Society.
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