Best Partnership Delivering Virtual Care

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Best Partnership Delivering Virtual Care
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  1. Register an account.
  2. Start your entry (save it in-progress).
  3. Submit your entry to be in the running.

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Reducing avoidable admissions, supporting earlier discharge and managing long-term conditions at home are now central pillars of NHS policy. The government’s 10 Year Health Plan sets out a clear ambition to embed virtual care across the system, including a national rollout of virtual wards and increased use of remote monitoring for people living with frailty, heart failure, respiratory conditions and other ongoing health needs.

Private sector partners are helping NHS organisations to deliver this shift at a pace. From enabling virtual ward capacity and providing clinical services at home, to supplying platforms that support safe remote monitoring and proactive care, these partnerships are changing how and where people receive NHS treatment.

This award will recognise a private sector partner that has worked with the NHS to deliver care outside of traditional settings using virtual models, supporting improved outcomes, system flow and patient experience.

Eligibility

Open to private sector organisations working with any NHS organisation to deliver virtual care. This includes remote monitoring providers, virtual ward partners, platform suppliers and others supporting clinical delivery, logistics or infrastructure to enable NHS care at home. Evidence must relate to work delivered in the past two years up until the awards entry deadline.

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 NHS objective the partnership set out to support, such as early discharge, reducing admissions or managing long-term conditions at home.
  • Explain the virtual care model delivered and how it aligns with national priorities, including virtual wards.
  • Set out agreed goals around capacity, timeliness, safety or reduced in-person activity.

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 NHS teams, including clinicians and operational leads, were engaged in shaping, delivering and embedding the service
  • Explain how joint working enabled safe, seamless care
  • Provide evidence of patient involvement where relevant

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.

  • Describe measurable benefits such as bed days saved, avoided admissions or earlier intervention.
  • Provide evidence of clinical outcomes, patient safety and user feedback.
  • Demonstrate value for money and support for NHS productivity.

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 model has been scaled or sustained across other services or settings.
  • Describe the partner’s role in enabling wider rollout, standardisation or integration.

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 service supports long-term system sustainability and better use of resources
  • Explain how the benefits endure beyond a single site or pilot.

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