Bromley Healthcare multi-award winner across health sector

We are delighted to announce that Bromley Healthcare has had a very successful few months with multiple award wins. Last night Bromley Healthcare was awarded the Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London Innovation Grant for its ‘Making Mealtimes Matter‘ (Supporting care homes at mealtimes with residents who have swallowing problems).

We received the Innovation and Growth Award at the annual Bromley Business Awards ceremony held at The Warren on Thursday 15 October 2015. This award recognised the success and development of the organisation since its inception in 2011.

Also in October our Executive Team, led by CEO Jonathan Lewis, collected the Laing and Buisson Award for Management Excellence for its leadership and focus on continuous innovation.

On the 12th of November we were awarded the Team of the Year in the Annual celebrating Desmond Awards.

This award recognised the innovative approach and hard work exhibited by the Lifestyles Team in the Health Improvement Service when delivering the ‘walking away from diabetes’ programme in Bromley.
We are also pleased to announce that we were finalists in the HSJ’s Compassionate Patient Care category for the great work carried out by Ofsted rated “Good” Hollybank Children’s Respite Unit.

“These award wins come on the back of another successful year for Bromley Healthcare in a very challenging period the NHS. As a social enterprise delivering NHS services we have managed to continuously improve the quality of our services and at the same time increased productivity. We have the highest Friends and Family satisfaction score in London at 98%. Since 2011 we have implemented 301 internal service improvements for the benefit of patients and have reinvested £1.5m back into our front line services,” said Bromley Healthcare’s CEO, Jonathan Lewis.
Bromley Healthcare is committed to continuous improvement for our patients and the local community and our strong social enterprise ethos is backed up by strong financial performance with over 30 new contracts won.

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For more information contact Raman Janack on 020 8315 8741 or email

Ramanjit.Janack@bromleyhealthcare-cic.nhs.uk
Notes for editors:

1. About Bromley Healthcare

Bromley Healthcare was established in 2011 as an employee-owned social enterprise that ‘spun-out’ of the NHS. The organisation runs a range of community health services in Bromley, Greenwich, Bexley, Croydon and Lewisham, providing a wide range of services to people of all ages. Services range from health visiting to district nursing, school nurses to specialist nurses, therapy services for adults and children, urgent care centres, services to help prevent hospital admissions and also facilitate early hospital discharge.

A leading provider for community health services operating in Bromley, Bexley, Croydon and Lewisham, Bromley Healthcare is a community interest company formed of over 800 people delivering high-quality NHS services, to people of all ages in the local community. Key to its success has been the emphasis it places on maximising best practice from both the private sector and the NHS.

2. For more information on the awarding organisations please visit:
• http://www.hin-southlondon.org/
• http://www.bromleybusinessawards.co.uk/
• http://www.celebratingdesmond.org
• https://awards.hsj.co.uk/shortlist