Most Impactful Project Addressing Health Inequalities 

Most Impactful Project Addressing Health Inequalities 
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

  • Describe the scope of the project; what was the context or need for this work, and why could this project not have been executed by the NHS without help?
  • What did the project team hope to achieve and how would this effect staff and patients and their diagnosis, treatment or experience?
  • Share how the project or programme was designed to ensure long-term sustainable improvements for a specific underserved community or patient cohort

Outcome

  • How was the project realised and what were the results?
  • What were the measures of success and how were the achieved against the goals laid out at the commencement of the project?
  • Provide evidence that results have been acted upon and supporting material that demonstrates a tangible and positive effect on patient outcomes, experience and/or staff ability to deliver better services across the local population.

Spread

  • Have the results or methodologies employed in the project been replicated elsewhere?
  • What is the scope for further replication?
  • What efforts have been made by the project team to disseminate best practice either within the NHS organisation or to other providers of healthcare?

Involvement 

  • Describe where the team drew information from and how those data sources were involved
  • Detail the size and makeup of all stakeholders in the project team, and how it drew on expertise from both lived experience partners and disciplines from across the NHS organisation
  • Judges are looking for projects which can demonstrate buy-in from parties which both contribute input and those who benefit from the results.

Value

  • Describe the financial and non-monetary value delivered by the project
  • Provide testimonial evidence from the target beneficiaries of the project surrounding the value created
  • To what extent has the project contributed to improvements of quality of life and/or earlier-stage intervention?

Most Impactful Project Addressing Health Inequalities 

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