NEW: AI-Enabled Innovation Partnership of the Year

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NEW: AI-Enabled Innovation Partnership of the Year
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Artificial intelligence is central to the NHS's ambition to become the most AI-enabled health system in the world. The 10 Year Health Plan identifies AI as one of five transformative technologies, with validated tools to be deployed across the NHS and embedded in clinical pathways over the coming years. The opportunity is significant: faster diagnosis, reduced administrative burden, better use of scarce clinical time and earlier intervention for patients. 

Realising that potential depends on partnerships that start with a clearly defined problem, whether clinical, operational or financial, rather than the technology itself. The strongest collaborations pair a well-articulated need with a secure, well-governed solution that fits into how staff actually work, frees up capacity and produces a measurable outcome. 

This award will recognise a partnership between an AI solution provider and one or more NHS organisations that has applied artificial intelligence to a defined problem and delivered demonstrable benefit, whether in clinical settings or in back office and operational functions. Judges will be looking for a strong use case, evidence of safe and responsible deployment, and clear improvements for patients, staff or services.

Eligibility

  • Open to any organisation providing an AI solution, including technology companies, working in partnership with one or more NHS organisations, regardless of function or care setting, that has applied AI to improve care quality, efficiency or both. 
  • Entries must demonstrate a clearly defined problem and the AI solution applied to it, with appropriate evidence of safety, governance and information assurance. 
  • Evidence must relate to work delivered within 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 problem or inefficiency the partnership set out to address using AI, including the clinical, operational, financial or workforce context, and how this aligns with national priorities.
  • What was the vision for how AI could help, and what made the approach new or distinct from existing practice? Describe how the tool or approach was selected and how staff were involved before wider rollout. 
  • What specific goals and success measures were set, including any targets for time saved, cost reduction, error rates, staff experience or service improvement?

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?

  • How were the staff directly affected by the AI involved in identifying the need, selecting the approach and implementing it? 
  • Where relevant, how were patients or service users involved in shaping the initiative, including any implications for how their data is used or how services are delivered? 
  • Describe how the provider and NHS partners, and any other bodies, worked together and explain what the partnership made possible.

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.

  • What has been the measurable impact on efficiency, productivity or cost? Provide quantitative and qualitative evidence where possible. 
  • What has been the impact on staff, including their experience of work, the burden of administrative tasks and their ability to focus on higher value activity? 
  • What has been the wider benefit to patients, the organisation or the system? Describe any unintended consequences, positive or negative, and how these were managed.

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.

  • How has the initiative been rolled out beyond its initial deployment, across additional teams, sites or organisations? 
  • What efforts have been made to share learning, governance frameworks or best practice with other NHS organisations, including through publications, national networks or toolkits?
  • What evidence is there that this approach could be adopted elsewhere, and what steps have been taken to make that possible?

Sustainability

The potential for the project/work to continue and create lasting impact. Evidence of how it can be sustained or built upon.

  • How is the AI initiative embedded into business as usual, and what resource, funding and governance arrangements are in place to sustain it? 
  • How does the partnership identify and address risks from the AI, including errors, bias or unintended consequences, and what processes exist to act quickly if problems arise? 
  • What evidence is there that this work is building long term capability, and how does it contribute to the broader NHS goal of becoming a more efficient, AI enabled system?

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