Most Effective Contribution to Integrated Health and Care

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Most Effective Contribution to Integrated Health and Care
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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

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 integration challenge the partnership addressed across health and care boundaries. 
  • Set out the goals agreed and how the work aligns with the shift from hospital to community. 
  • Explain why integrated working was essential.

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 partners across health, care and the private sector worked together. 
  • Explain how staff and patients shaped the integrated model. 
  • Provide evidence of shared ownership across organisations.

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 coordination, outcomes or experience for patients. 
  • Share before-and-after data and feedback from partners and patients. 
  • Demonstrate efficiency 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 integrated model has been replicated or adapted elsewhere. 
  • Describe how learning has been shared across systems.

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 integrated working is sustained beyond the initial project. 
  • Explain how it supports lasting joined-up care.

Most Effective Contribution to Integrated Health and Care

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