The William Cullen Prize for Excellence In Teaching and the William Cullen Prize for Service Innovation are awarded in collaboration with the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh.
The Celebrating Success Event was held on 30th May 2024.
The winners were announced live on the night on our social media channels (follow the #ggcawards tag).
You can find out who the winners were and also view their photos and videos below.
Congratulations to all our winners!
William Cullen Prize for Innovation – Joint Winners
The leadership of Professor Keith Muir and Dr Wazim Izzath has been crucial in moving forward a very challenging, and time critical treatment paradigm and this award recognises the hard work moving this treatment pathway over the past 4 years. Stroke is one of Glasgow’s ‘big three’ killers alongside cancer and heart disease and over the past 18 months stroke thrombectomy has developed on the QEUH site.
The Stroke service initially starting as a test of change, broadening to a service for local Queen Elizabeth patients and in the past month has moved forward for a service for the West of Scotland. The service development has been transformative for those patients with life threatening severe stroke. It would not have been possible without the commitment of multiple teams involved including ED, Stroke, neuro-anaesthetics and diagnostic and interventional neuroradiology.
As part of the Realistic Medicine work programme in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Judith Roulston has developed and implemented Treatment Escalation Plans (TEPs) in the Beatson in-patient service. This area of work has contributed to reducing inter-hospital critical care transfers, improved communications by both patients and staff, and has promoted patient centred shared decision making in Oncology services.
This innovation is particularly evident in the Beatson Enhanced Care Unit where there is a focus on all patients having a TEP in place and ongoing discussions to support their wishes. Judith works with a wider team within the Beatson Centre and across NHSGGC to enable staff to have confidence and competence to have the necessary realistic conversations with patients.
William Cullen Prize for Education – Dr Lucy Carrick
This year’s William Cullen Prize for Education is Dr Lucy Carrick.
Dr Carrick is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director in Gartnavel Royal Hospital. The psychiatry team at Gartnavel Royal Hospital train foundation, core and specialist trainees, and the responses in the Scottish Trainee Survey from 2023 demonstrate how much the unit values its trainees.
This award is a reflection on the hard work of the Educational and Clinical Supervisors as well as the administration and operations team who have worked hard to provide a positive training experience.
At a time when we are looking to support foundation training in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, the feedback from Foundation trainees was particularly gratifying in terms of key aspects such as handover, induction and the educational environment and is an indication of the focus on improving training and clinical care within the department.
