Most Impactful Partnership in Population Health

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Most Impactful Partnership in Population Health
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  2. Start your entry (save it in-progress).
  3. Submit your entry to be in the running.

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Understanding and improving health at population level is a growing priority across the NHS. From tackling inequalities to identifying risk earlier and targeting services more effectively, success relies on partnerships that turn data into meaningful action.

This award recognises a partnership between the private sector and the NHS organisations that has worked to deliver practical, population level improvements. This may include segmentation and risk stratification, enabling proactive service design, or embedding tools and systems that support NHS teams to plan and intervene more effectively.

The winner will demonstrate a strong working relationship with the NHS, a clear understanding of population health priorities, and tangible benefits for patients, staff or services.

Eligibility

Open to private sector organisations working with NHS organisation to deliver improvements in population health. This includes consultancies, data analytics firms, population health technology providers and other companies supporting population level insight or action. Evidence should 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 challenge or opportunity the NHS organisation aimed to address, and why population health approaches were chosen.
  • Explain how the target population was identified, segmented or prioritised, and what tools or approaches were used.
  • Set out the goals, such as reducing inequalities, improving targeting or enabling earlier intervention.

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 the NHS partner and supplier worked together throughout, from planning to delivery and review.
  • Highlight the contribution of clinicians, analysts, public health or frontline staff.
  • Provide evidence of genuine collaboration and shared ownership.

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.

  • Detail the measurable changes that resulted, including improvements in access, outcomes, planning or service delivery. •
  • Provide data, dashboards or qualitative feedback showing how impact was monitored.
  • Demonstrate cost-effectiveness or improved return on investment.

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, insight or service has been replicated, adapted or scaled in other areas or settings.
  • Describe how learning has been shared across the NHS.

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 benefits and improved decision-making are sustained over time.
  • Explain how the partnership delivers long-term value, not just technical innovation.

To find out more

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