Linnaeus medical quality team earned the Quality Improvement to Lead Organisational Change award.
Linnaeus Knowledge Shines With Success At RCVS Awards
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Linnaeus has celebrated a strong performance at the 2025 RCVS Knowledge Awards with its teams earning four accolades.
The RCVS Knowledge Awards celebrate achievements across the profession for activities that contribute to advancing the quality of veterinary care.
The Linnaeus medical quality team was presented with the Quality Improvement to Lead Organisational Change award, as judges praised their culture of psychological safety to improve patient safety.
Through promoting and facilitating the reporting of incidents and near misses, Linnaeus increased reporting rates from 86 per cent to 100 per cent, while increasing full significant event audits and reviews to 80 per cent.
Aarti Hogan, quality lead at Linnaeus, said: “Our team are passionate about supporting our practices in learning from error and using the insights from this to drive change at both practice and organisational level.
“It’s great to see the hard work of the team and organisation recognised by our peers and colleagues and we hope this will inspire teams across our profession to engage with and learn from patient safety events using the platforms available to them.”
Meanwhile, Linnaeus-owned Paragon Veterinary Referrals in Wakefield was presented with the Quality Improvement in Practice award, having used medical error data collected from Halo to identify areas for improvements in its setting.
The hospital was supported in this work by The Improvement Academy, which is hosted by Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Paragon used safety huddles to improve awareness of root causes of medication errors, highlight patients who were at risk of medication errors and celebrate success which led to increased periods without errors, along with a total reduction in medication errors.
There was further success for Linnaeus with its oral health working group being awarded third place in the Quality Improvement to Lead Organisational Change category, while Wildbore Vetstop in Worksop was also placed third in the Quality Improvement in Practice awards.
Elsewhere, Linnaeus-owned Garston Veterinary Group in Frome, Gower Veterinary Surgery in Swansea, Roundhouse Referrals and Roundhouse Veterinary Hospital in Glasgow and Paragon were all highly commended in the Quality Improvement in Practice category.
David Walker, chief medical officer at Linnaeus, said: “Congratulations to all those who represented Linnaeus. Achieving recognition in the RCVS Knowledge awards is testament to their endeavours to improve the quality of veterinary care.”
For more information on Linnaeus, visit www.linnaeusgroup.co.uk.
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