Most Impactful Project Addressing Health Inequalities 

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Most Impactful Project Addressing Health Inequalities 
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Health inequalities continue to challenge the NHS, with people in underserved communities experiencing significantly poorer health outcomes, lower access to care, and reduced life expectancy. The NHS is committed to tackling these gaps through locally tailored, partnership driven approaches that engage patients and communities directly.

This award recognises projects that have delivered targeted, creative solutions designed specifically to close gaps in care, outcomes, or patient experience among disadvantaged groups. Projects might focus on specific communities facing barriers due to deprivation, ethnicity, age, disability, geography, or digital exclusion.

Judges will look for clear evidence of tangible, sustainable impacts demonstrating how the project has successfully improved the health or care experience of the targeted population. Successful entries will showcase meaningful engagement with the affected communities, innovative methods, and a genuine commitment to tackling longstanding health inequalities.

Eligibility

  • Judges are looking for a clearly defined project scope and demonstrable outcomes
  • Evidence must relate to a project, ongoing or completed 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 health inequality and population the project focused on and the challenge addressed. 
  • Set out the goals agreed and how the work aligns with national priorities to narrow inequalities. 
  • Explain why the partnership approach was the right one.

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 partner, NHS teams and communities worked together. 
  • Explain how people with lived experience shaped the work. 
  • Provide evidence of genuine, inclusive partnership.

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 reduced inequalities and improved access or outcomes. 
  • Share before-and-after data and community feedback. 
  • Demonstrate value for money and wider social value.

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 or learning has been adopted in other areas. 
  • Describe how best practice has been shared.

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 are sustained over time. 
  • Explain how the approach can be built upon.

Most Impactful Project Addressing Health Inequalities 

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