2011 BBH Awards

CHAIRMAN OF JUDGES
Roy Lilley
NHS commentator

A founder member of the NHS Trust Federation, independent health policy analyst, Roy Lilley, has twice been voted the UK's top speaker on NHS topics.

The creator of the best-selling Tool-Kit series of books, Roy started his working life as a successful businessman, starting his first enterprise from scratch, before holding various positions within healthcare trusts, including vice chairman of West Surrey and North East Hampshire Health Authority, and chairman of Homewood NHS Trust, one of the first organisations with responsibility for people with learning disabilities and mental health problems.

After leaving healthcare management behind, Roy is now an established writer, broadcaster and commentator on health and social care issues, regularly contributing to the Today Programme, Newsnight, BBC News 24, Sky News and regional TV and radio programmes. He has also written more than 20 books on health and health service management.

With such vast experience in the healthcare sector, Roy, was the perfect choice to chair the judging panel for this year's awards.

He said of the role: "It is a great honour to be involved in these prestigious awards. I have seen for myself how the environment can impact on both staff and patients and I look forward to seeing, at a time when the NHS is under great pressure, how innovation and ingenuity can make the best of what we have and how imagination and creativity can take us into the future."

PATIENT REPRESENTATIVE
Danny Daniels
Vice chairman, National Association for Patient Participation

Having spent most of his working life in the hospitality industry, Danny Daniels retired from fulltime employment in 2001 and has since been working tirelessly to improve patient participation in healthcare service design.

Originally chairman of a group in south Wales, he was subsequently invited to join the National Association for Patient Participation in 2001 as a trustee; going on to become chairman and, currently, vice chairman.

Having served on the judging panel of various other awards programmes, Danny is looking forward to providing, for the first time, a patients'-eye view of the healthcare estate. He said: "When the opportunity arose for me to become a member of the judging panel for the BBH Awards as a patient representative, I was delighted to accept."

"Aware that my fellow judges are experienced and professional within the architectural and artistic disciplines, I recognise the responsibility to contribute meaningfully. The task of selecting worthy recipients of the awards will not be an easy one, but my past experiencing in assessing quality and judging performance will stand me in good stead.

"For me, working to laid-down criteria in all classes will be a starting point. From there, the task will be to arrive at a shortlist using objective, and to a certain degree, subjective outcomes. In particular I will be seeking entries which will, or already are, delivering added value and making it clear that the built environment can make a significant contribution to the patient experience."

GP REPRESENTATIVE
Dr Sam Everington MBBS, MRCGP, Barrister OBE
GP, Bromley By Bow Centre, East London

Dr Sam Everington is a GP at the Bromley by Bow Centre in London’s East End.

The practice is used as a model for NHS LIFT premises and was formally designated a 'healthy living centre' by the Government in 2000, achieving Beacon Status the following year. At the facility, Sam and his team practice a holistic approach to health and healthcare, recognising the importance of education, the environment, arts and employment. The centre plays host to more than 100 projects and social enterprises and creates a unique partnership between the private, public and voluntary sectors, the community and patients.

A qualified barrister and a member of the BMA and GMC Council, in 1999 Sam received an OBE for services to inner city primary care and, in 2006, won the International Award of Excellence in Health Care. In addition, he is a director of Community Health Partnerships (NHS Lift) and chairman of the NHS Tower Hamlets GP Commissioning Consortium.

Speaking of his role on the BBH Awards judging panel, he said: "As a GP I recognise how vital high-quality premises are to the delivery of healthcare. Too many NHS estates are not fit for purpose and as chairman of a GP commissioning consortium I recognise how vital good estates are to delivering on the new commissioning agenda."

"Design of NHS buildings can have a huge impact on the delivery of patient services and the morale of staff. At our health centre the GP consulting room desk is curved and enables the patient and doctor to sit next to each other and share the computer screen. A simple design detail like this has a major impact on the doctor/patient relationship and the empowering of patients to manage their own care. A beautiful café on the site, which is shared with the community, is also a great boost to staff morale."

HEAD JUDGE - PATIENT ENVIRONMENT CLASS
Sarah WallerCBE RGN FRSA
Programme director, King's Fund Enhancing the Healing Environment project

Sarah Waller joined The King’s Fund in 2000 to develop the Enhancing the Healing Environment (EHE) programme, having previously had a long career working at all levels in the NHS, both in nursing and human resources management.

The EHE programme is currently working with more than 200 teams from organisations across the country that deliver NHS services, including acute and mental health trusts, hospices and prisons, to improve the patient environment.

Sarah was formally a non-executive director and deputy chairman of the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust and, in 2004, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She also jointly won the Outstanding Contribution to the Healthcare Environment Award at the 2004 Building Better Healthcare Awards, and was awarded a CBE for services to nursing and the NHS in 2008.

Of the awards, she said: "I hope that through the awards process we are again able to showcase examples of high-quality, value-for-money designs that have significantly improved the environment of care for patients and their relatives."

HEAD JUDGE - ESTATES AND FACILITIES MANAGEMENT CLASS
Kevin Oxley FCIOB
Director of operations, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust and former national chairman of Health Estates and Facilities Management Association (HefmA)

Kevin is a qualified building surveyor and joined the health service initially in 1989. He has since held various roles, including works manager, capital projects manager and PFI project director.

He became the director of estates and facilities for County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust in 2003 and later joined North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust as director of estates and facilities, before becoming its director of operations. In June this year, Kevin was appointed the trust's commercial director with a role covering all aspects of non patient-related commercial activity as well as estates and facilities management. He is also the project director for the planned new £300m hospital for the trust.

A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building, in May 2006 Kevin became the national chairman of the Health, Estates and Facilities Management Association (HefmA), standing down from the post in May 2009. And, in 2010, he completed the Institute of Hospital Managers (IHM) Accredited Managers scheme and is currently engaged in the NHS Top Leaders Programme. Kevin is a long-standing member of the Building Better Healthcare Awards judging team and says his passion to identify and share best practice within the healthcare sector is what drives him to give up his time and expertise.

He said: "Winning entries, in my eyes, are those that can demonstrate a measurable benefit to the patient and, or, the environment. I feel strongly that the patient environment, although often talked about, is still not sophisticated sufficiently in design terms to keep up with medical treatment developments. I hope that through these awards hospital design and materials used in the care setting can close the gap I feel exists."

HEAD JUDGE – BUILDING DESIGN CLASS
Susan Francis
Programme director, Architects for Health

Trained as an architect, Susan Francis has worked as an academic developing research and postgraduate training in the field of healthcare for about 20 years, publishing and presenting extensively in the UK and overseas.

She is currently programme director at Architects for Health; a not-for-profit organisation representing design and health professionals who work in the challenging healthcare sector. Prior to her latest post, Susan was the special advisor for health at the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), where her work included supporting trusts to deliver good design through design reviews and advice.

She has been heavily involved with the BBH Awards for several years and will this year be heading up the Building Design category.

HEAD JUDGE – PEOPLE CLASS
Patricia Young
Senior risk advisor, patient safety design, Det Norske Veritas (DNV)

After more than four years as patient safety design lead at the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), Patricia Young has recently taken on a new role as a senior risk advisor in the business development group at Det Norske Veritas, a global risk management company working within the healthcare sector. In her new post she will help health providers improve patient safety within complex organisations focusing on usability, standardisation, systematic awareness, risk and robustness based on evidence-based design.

Before joining the NPSA, Patricia worked with architectural practices specialising in the design and construction of healthcare facilities in all sectors, and at the NPSA she helped to develop products and tools which could be used nationally and internationally to facilitate and empower the commissioners of healthcare facilities to understand and improve patient safety through the use of design.

She has also presented at national and international conferences on the subject of design and patient safety and has had several articles published in health and professional journals. She said: "Through my involvement in the awards, I will try and promote, encourage and support the concept that the effectiveness of environmental design cannot be achieved by isolated interventions, but must incorporate a range of strategies to ensure that the impact of the full return on the investments made can be secured."

HEAD JUDGE – PRODUCT CLASS
Jon Wilks
Director, UK HealthGateway

Jon Wilks is the co-founder and managing director of UK HealthGateway, a specialist UK health market access consultancy that works on behalf of medical device companies from all over the world who want to access the UK NHS with their innovations. In particular, the company focuses on commercial interaction in the US, Canada, Scandinavia and Europe.

Jon's health market expertise was established during six years spent as sales and marketing director at Williams Medical Supplies, the UK's foremost primary care medical product distributor. During this time he was involved in developing sales across the entire healthcare spectrum.

Following the successful sale of Williams Medical Supplies and the co-founding of UK HealthGateway in 2007, Jon has worked with medical products of all types, from near-patient diagnostics and SPECT scanners to wound treatment devices and radiological imaging software. He lives in Cowbridge, south Wales, with his family and is a keen sportsman and fisherman.