Most Effective Contribution to Integrated Health and Care

Most Effective Contribution to Integrated Health and Care
Most Effective Contribution to Integrated Health and Care
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To begin your entry:

  1. Pay the entry fee.
  2. You’ll receive an email with a link to start your submission.
  3. Use the link to register an account and begin your entry, you can save your progress and return to it any time before the deadline.
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The NHS’s direction of travel is clear: integration must become the default way of working. The 10 Year Health Plan reinforces the shift from fragmented delivery to joined-up care that is designed around the needs of local populations. At the heart of this is the development of neighbourhood teams, bringing together primary, community, mental health and social care to offer more coordinated, personalised support.

While the ambition is set nationally, the solutions often come through partnership, including private and third sector organisations working with the NHS to redesign services, improve flow, or enable shared ways of working. This could involve multidisciplinary teams, shared data platforms, co-located services or tools that improve access and continuity.

Judges will be looking for projects that bring partners together to deliver more integrated care, especially at place or neighbourhood level. Entries should show how collaboration has made services more connected, easier to navigate and better for the people who rely on them.

Eligibility

  • This award is open to any private or third sector organisation which works in partnership with the NHS to facilitate integration at a local or regional system level
  • These projects and partnerships must demonstrate evidence or results within the last two years up to the awards submission deadline

Ambition

  • Describe the context of the partnership and the type of integration being enabled within the local health and care economy
  • Share how the project, process or solution was developed and tested, and how it served the patient or service user better than the NHS would be able to deliver alone
  • Outline the targets set to measure the effectiveness of the project or service and the steps put in place to achieve them.

Outcome

  • Clearly demonstrate the benefits of the partnership and overall integration on patient outcomes, which could include improved patient experience, waiting time reduction, capacity increase or optimised treatment pathways.
  • Discuss how the NHS 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 health systems

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 from key stakeholders to show the efficacy and value of the partnership in joining up care

Most Effective Contribution to Integrated Health and Care

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To find out more

Partnership opportunities:  Sponsorship Sales Team
Awards entry enquiries: Delegate Sales Team
Judging and event management: Awards Support