• Innovation in enterprise - Shoothill
• Innovation in frontline services - DWP: Tell Us Once
• Innovation in collaboration - Anna Freud Centre - Ambit
• Most innovative CIO - John Thornbury
Shoothill
"With over 5m properties and assets worth £132.2bn in England and Wales at risk from flooding, Shoothill and the Environment Agency (EA) have released the world's first visual representation of live flood information on Facebook - FloodAlerts.
"FloodAlerts uses data supplied by EA experts and displays pin-point accurate shapes on a BING map represented as different colours depending on the
extent and severity of each flood warning (updated every 15 minutes).
"Facebook users can register any location they want to monitor and if a
relevant alert is issued, they then receive a notification on their Facebook wall and to their email address."
Department of Work and Pensions: Tell Us Once
"Birth and bereavement are times that people should be spending with family and friends, not navigating government red tape.
"The Tell Us Once service makes innovative use of IT by sharing information quickly and securely with up to 28 government and council services, saving people having to notify them individually.
DWP bereavement Photograph: DWP
"To make it even easier, we offer a choice of using a face to face, telephony or online service.
"People love us and want us to notify even more services. We are working with private sector partners to explore the possibilities. There's much more to come with Tell Us Once."
The AMBIT collaboration
"AMBIT's innovative open source treatment approach radically improves knowledge sharing across NHS and voluntary sector teams working with the most vulnerable, disadvantaged youth.
"AMBIT provides an internet/smartphone app with guidelines that each team adapts, refines and improves, based on local expertise.
"Any improvements are shared, compared and integrated with other ideas from teams around the country and existing evidence, which constantly improves effectiveness.
"Supported by open source programmers, the project fosters co-ownership of professional knowledge and multi-stakeholder participation through sharing and evolving content for professional practice-guides."
John Thornbury: Worcestershire NHS trust
"John's belief is that through effective information and communications, technology can help deliver better, safer care to patients in the NHS. This ethos has driven the trust to integrate existing systems, providing access through a clinical portal and creating a best of breed solution.
"Real-time bed management accessed via touch screens, together with the digitisation of 1.2m patient records, enables staff to access information across Worcestershire and supports patients to actively manage their long term conditions.
"True innovation is more than replicating processes electronicall, it is about seeing things in a different way and applying change which will deliver benefit."
