STERIS IMS & Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals & Kingston Hospital Foundation Trust: Decontamination Centre of Innovation and Excellence has been named the Best Estates Optimisation Project at the 2022 HSJ Partnership Awards.
The HSJ Partnership Awards honoured organisations judged to have forged the most outstanding collaborations with the NHS during one of its most challenging years.
More than 900 guests representing the 123 finalists converged on London’s Park Plaza Westminster Bridge hotel for the March 24 event, hosted by top comedian Tom Allen.
Designed and built in partnership with South West London Procurement Partnership, the STERIS Chessington Decontamination Centre opened in July 2021 following an extensive programme of construction work which continued throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
The centre provides a robust, high-quality, and responsive circular economy approach for the management of medical devices to five major trusts, with further available capacity for other healthcare providers across London. Benefiting from STERIS’ wider capabilities, the facility offers its partners full onsite maintenance of surgical instrument repair together with dedicated low-temp services for robotic surgical devices and flexible endoscope processing.
Sixty-five judges worked through hundreds of entries over a two-stage process to decide which of the myriad of public, private and third sector organisations would take home an award.
Addressing the event, HSJ deputy editor Dave West said: “It is an estimable feat to be shortlisted for an HSJ Partnership Award – especially up against the challenges of dealing with COVID-19, which are of course ongoing – and even more so to win.
“Our winners this year show some powerful alliances forged under the pressures of the pandemic, and some green shoots of partnerships for recovery, showing how people are starting to work together to start to crack the wicked problems which will dominate the next few years.”