Best Educational Programme for the NHS 

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Best Educational Programme for the NHS 
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Many types of business have an interest in working with NHS organisations to help educate and train workforces. Improving the skills and knowledge of staff who treat patients, manage systems and deliver services will help to improve patient outcomes. Upskilling can also improve capacity as well as care. Whether new treatments, technologies or processes there should be a benefit to the patient and to the staff.

Judges will be looking for educational programmes which have improved the skills and knowledge of staff within an NHS organisation. Winners will be able to demonstrate a link between their partnership and the results. Demonstrable benefits could be improved capacity, treatment pathways and patient outcomes.

Eligibility

  • This award is open to any type of private business which works in partnership with an NHS organisation to deliver education and training
  • Single partnership or joint working projects
  • Any size of education programme which can demonstrate evidence from the past two years up until the awards deadline date

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 learning or workforce challenge the programme addressed and the context for change. 
  • Set out the goals agreed and how the work aligns with NHS priorities. 
  • Explain why the partnership approach was the right one.

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 partner and NHS teams worked together to design and deliver the programme. 
  • Explain how learners and staff shaped the content and approach. 
  • Provide evidence of joint working.

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 improved knowledge, skills or capability among NHS staff. 
  • Share before-and-after data and participant feedback. 
  • Demonstrate impact on care and value for money.

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. 

  • Explain how the programme has been adopted or adapted by other organisations. 
  • Describe how learning 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 programme is sustained and kept current over time. 
  • Explain how its benefits endure.

Best Educational Programme for the NHS 

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