Health workers at the Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust developed the paediatric early warning system to alert them to children whose conditions show signs of deterioration. It has now won the BUPA Foundation's first-ever patient safety award, winning £10,000.
The system has led to a reduction in the number of children admitted to the hospital's high dependency unit.
Dr Andrew Vallance-Owen, vice chair of the foundation, said: "Slow deterioration in a patient's condition is hard to detect. This team developed an early warning system for children, which improves patient safety."
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