Best Elective Care Recovery Initiative

Best Elective Care Recovery Initiative
Best Elective Care Recovery Initiative
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Reducing the elective care backlog remains one of the NHS’s most urgent national priorities. Long waits for treatment, outpatient appointments and diagnostics continue to have a serious impact on outcomes, staff workload and system efficiency. Health systems are under pressure to recover capacity and deliver earlier access to care, while laying the groundwork for more sustainable, responsive services.

This award will recognise a private or not-for-profit organisation that has led a partnership with the NHS to address elective care challenges. Projects may include additional diagnostic or treatment capacity, redesign of pathways, triage improvements or recovery-focused models of care. Judges will be looking for entries that respond to a clearly defined need, demonstrate impact at scale and show measurable benefits for patients, staff and services.

Eligibility

  • Entrants can be any private or not-for-profit sector organisation working in partnership with NHS or public health organisations to recover from the pandemic at a local or regional level.
  • Evidence of outcomes must be provided, along with initial assessment of scope and method
  • Eligible projects should have shown clear results within the last two years up to the awards submission deadline

Ambition

  • Describe the scope of the project including scale of challenge and all relevant partners
  • What were the brief and the goals set?
  • What measures were set to ensure expectations were met?

Outcome

  • Describe how the project was conceived and implemented in a quick and agile fashion
  • Provide detailed evidence of improvements achieved and how they were delivered, including the results on the ground for both healthcare professionals and patients
  • What challenges were met during project implementation and how did the solution provider work with the healthcare system at overcoming these?

Spread

  • Discuss to what extent best practices or innovations generated by the partnership have been adopted by other NHS departments or organisations within the wider STP/ICS.
  • Have the best practices or innovations been employed within other partnerships formed by the private sector partner?
  • How could the learnings from this project be applied in future national pandemic preparedness plans?

Involvement 

  • What was the level of interaction between partners in terms of project concept, development and realisation?
  • How has the partnership involved collaboration with patients and end-users within the NHS, and to what extent was this prioritised given the need for a quick and agile implementation?
  • Provide testimonial evidence from each party within the partnership surrounding their level of involvement and engagement, and how they have consequently benefited.

Value

  • Provide qualitative and quantitative evidence of financial or non-monetary value creation
  • Has the partnership resulted in any improvements to services or patient experience that will remain applicable long beyond the Covid-19 response?

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