Flippin' Pain win gold!
Flippin' Pain have won the 'Most Impactful Partnership in Preventative Healthcare' award!
Back in December, Flippin’ Pain was shortlisted for the ‘Most Impactful Partnership in Preventative Healthcare’ award at the HSJ (Health Service Journal) Partnership Awards, celebrating collaboration between Flippin' Pain, NHS North East and North Cumbria ICB, Tees Valley Sport, You’ve Got This and Teesside University.
Well, last night at the awards evening, we were announced as the winners!
The HSJ Partnership Awards celebrate the best collaborations between the NHS and private sector and introduced a new judging system featuring gold, silver and bronze awards. There were over 188 finalist projects: the judges said that Flippin’ Pain and partners stood out as a real ‘success story’, worthy of the gold award for improving understanding and management of pain across the local population and healthcare systems.
In the project, Flippin’ Pain’ and partners co-created unique, local events and activities, including public seminars, community outreach tours, workshops, and pop-ups: all with the aim of engaging, educating, and empowering public and health professional audiences with a modern understanding of pain science and management.
“We are so pleased to have won! It’s testament to the wonderful partnerships we have in the North East, all of which are made up of people who are just as passionate about tackling the burden of persistent pain as we are. We’re lucky that Connect invests in our work to make such a difference to health inequalities. It really has been a pleasure working with everyone on this project and we are consistently thankful for the community around Flippin’ Pain.”
“HSJ created the Partnership Awards in 2018 to celebrate and recognise the vital contribution made by the suppliers of goods and services to the quality and development of British healthcare.
“This year’s awards demonstrate there is almost no NHS clinical or support service which does not rely – sometimes almost completely – on the efforts of external suppliers.
“Almost any attempt to improve NHS productivity – the service’s greatest challenge - without working in concert with suppliers starts at a major disadvantage. Indeed, many of the best ideas for improving productivity do and will come from suppliers. Every one of the businesses on the Partnership Awards shortlist has shown the kind of thinking and determination it takes to deliver change in healthcare services. They should all be very proud of the efforts, our 28 winners especially so.”