The High Intensity Users (HIU) Project is delivered by a joint multi-disciplinary team from Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust (SSOTP) and University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM).

The project was launched last year to help patients who are admitted to hospital on multiple occasions and have stays of over 40 days.

It has proved to be a huge success and has now been recognised with a nomination in the Acute, Community and/or Primary Care Services Redesign category at the 2017 HSJ Awards, the leading annual awards in the healthcare world.