Best Consultancy Partnership with the NHS

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Best Consultancy Partnership with the NHS
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  2. Start your entry (save it in-progress).
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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

The challenge and context within which your project, person or organisation is set alongside your goals and targets whether quantitative or qualitative, and how this aligns with national priorities.

  • Describe the challenge the consultancy partnership addressed and the context for change.
  • Set out the goals and targets agreed and how success was defined.
  • Explain how the work aligned with NHS priorities.

Collaboration

The stakeholders’ involvement in co-designing and delivering the project. How have patients, staff at all levels, communities and other parties worked together to realise the outcomes?

  • Describe how the consultancy and NHS partners worked together, transferring knowledge and building capability.
  • Explain how staff and, where relevant, patients were engaged.
  • Provide evidence of genuine partnership rather than a transactional relationship.

Impact

The measurable benefits delivered to patients, staff, your organisation or the wider system. Provide data and evidence showing improvements to outcomes, quality, access, equity or efficiency.

  • Provide measurable evidence of the improvements delivered for the NHS organisation.
  • Share before-and-after data and testimonial evidence.
  • Demonstrate value for money and lasting benefit.

Scale

How your work has been shared, adopted or replicated beyond your immediate team or organisation. This includes dissemination through publications, presentations, toolkits, partnerships or inspiring similar initiatives elsewhere.

  • Describe how the approach or learning has been applied elsewhere in the NHS.
  • Explain how best practice has been shared.

Sustainability

The potential for the project/work to continue and create lasting impact. Evidence of how it can be sustained or built upon.

  • Describe how the benefits are sustained after the consultancy engagement ends.
  • Explain how capability has been embedded within NHS teams.

Best Consultancy Partnership with the NHS

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