Best Consultancy Partnership with the NHS

Best Consultancy Partnership with the NHS
Best Consultancy Partnership with the NHS
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  1. Pay the entry fee.
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The NHS continues to face complex challenges around performance, workforce, patient experience and service sustainability. Achieving lasting change often requires fresh insight, external expertise and close collaboration, particularly when navigating cultural, financial or operational constraints.

Consultancies play a critical role in supporting the NHS to think differently, act at pace and deliver improvements that benefit patients, staff and systems. Whether shaping strategy, redesigning pathways, improving engagement or supporting digital transformation, strong partnerships between consultancies and NHS organisations are helping to turn ideas into impact.

Judges will be looking for consultancy-led projects that have delivered measurable improvements through joint working. These might include redesigns of care or treatment pathways, new operating models, workforce or culture programmes, or targeted support to solve specific performance issues. Entries must show clear purpose, collaborative delivery and real-world results.

Eligibility

  • Entrants are consultancies which have delivered a joint working or partnership project in the past two years
  • Projects can be ongoing by evidence must be relevant to the past two years up until the awards entry deadline
  • Judges are looking for single projects with an NHS organisation and partners

Ambition

  • What was the context in which help was required? Describe the necessity and solutions that were sought.
  • Evidence how the partnership could deliver better value than the NHS could manage on its own.
  • Outline the goals of the partnership, and how change was to be managed.

Outcomes

  • Clearly demonstrate the benefits of the partnership on patient outcomes
  • Discuss how the NHS organisation has benefited from the partnership in terms of staffing, cost, reducing inefficiencies or ability to provide services.
  • Judges will also be looking for partnerships which can demonstrate positive and valuable working arrangements with engagement from front line staff. Evidence considered will include quantitative results and testimonials from project team members and stakeholders.

Spread

  • Have the results from the project been replicated elsewhere?
  • What efforts have been made by the project team to disseminate best practice either within the NHS organisation or to other providers of healthcare?
  • Judges will be looking for projects which can demonstrate that their success has been or has the potential of take up within other teams.

Involvement

  • Real tangible engagement between front line staff, patients and the project team are key to success and judges will be looking for projects which have been truly consultative.
  • Evidence the involvement of all stakeholders in the transformation including design, implementation and then follow up.
  • How has the project team reviewed the outcomes and how are they working with end-users to refine and adapt the changes made?

Value

  • Describe any relevant financial results and whether investment has delivered value for money.
  • Why has the partnership been of value to patients, staff and the wider NHS organisation?
  • Provide testimonial evidence of the effectiveness of the partnership from both NHS staff and patients.

Best Consultancy Partnership with the NHS

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To find out more

Partnership opportunities:  Sponsorship Sales Team
Awards entry enquiries: Delegate Sales Team
Judging and event management: Awards Support