Diagnostics Project of the Year

Diagnostics Project of the Year
Diagnostics Project of the Year
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Sir Mike Richards’ 2020 review of diagnostic services recommended new models of care, better equipment, and investment in both workforce and digitisation to improve efficiency, patient experience and clinical outcomes. Since then, significant progress has been made through the advent of imaging and pathology networks, the rise of Community Diagnostic Centres, and significant investment from the centre in upgrading existing technology and infrastructure are all creating opportunities. 

Private and third sector organisations have played a crucial role in helping deliver increased capacity, accessibility, and faster turnaround to improve care. This award will therefore recognise projects and partnerships that are tangibly improving diagnostic services at a local, regional or national level. Judges will be particularly interested in projects, improvements and innovations that have been genuinely co-produced by the NHS and private sector. These will have involved close consultation with patients and achieved high levels of staff engagement.  

Eligibility

  • This award is open to any private or third sector organisation which works in partnership with an NHS organisation or system 
  • These can be single partnerships or joint working projects, but must demonstrate evidence from the past two years up until the awards deadline date 

Ambition

  • Describe the context of the partnership and the reason that innovation or improvements were required. 
  • Provide clear evidence that the co-developed solution served patients better than the NHS was able to deliver alone. 
  • Outline the targets set to measure the effectiveness of the improvement, innovation, or new way of working and the steps put in place to achieve them. 

Outcome

  • Clearly demonstrate the benefits of the partnership on patient outcomes, which could include improved patient experience, waiting time reduction, capacity increase or optimised treatment pathways. 
  • Discuss how the NHS organisation has benefited from the partnership in terms of staffing, cost, reducing inefficiencies or ability to provide services. 
  • Describe any innovative practices generated by the partnership which have created beneficial outcomes. 

Spread

  • Describe how the business has worked with the NHS to ensure best practice learning has been disseminated. 
  • Discuss to what extent the best practice elements or innovations generated by the partnership have been adopted by other NHS organisations. 

Involvement

  • Describe how the different partners worked together to co-design improvements or innovations. 
  • Show how patients and staff contributed towards and added value to the goals and outcomes of the partnership. 
  • Evidence the consultative measures taken to inform, involve and enable participation in the design of any new innovation or adaptation to existing working practices. 

Value

  • What financial benefits have been realised by the partnership, or if partnering has cost the NHS more money than delivering the project alone, how have the non-monetary benefits outweighed the costs? 
  • How has the partnership led to material and measurable non-monetary improvements within the NHS organisation? 
  • Provide testimonial evidence of the effectiveness of the partnership from both NHS staff and patients. 

To find out more

For entry enquiries, contact James Elliot on james.elliott@wilmingtonplc.com