NEW: Best Partnership Delivering Virtual Care

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NEW: Best Partnership Delivering Virtual Care
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Reducing avoidable admissions, supporting earlier discharge and managing long-term conditions at home are now central pillars of NHS policy. The government’s 10 Year Health Plan sets out a clear ambition to embed virtual care across the system, including a national rollout of virtual wards and increased use of remote monitoring for people living with frailty, heart failure, respiratory conditions and other ongoing health needs.

Private sector partners are helping NHS organisations to deliver this shift at a pace. From enabling virtual ward capacity and providing clinical services at home, to supplying platforms that support safe remote monitoring and proactive care, these partnerships are changing how and where people receive NHS treatment.

This award will recognise a private sector partner that has worked with the NHS to deliver care outside of traditional settings using virtual models, supporting improved outcomes, system flow and patient experience. 

Eligibility

Open to private sector organisations working with any NHS organisation to deliver virtual care. This includes remote monitoring providers, virtual ward partners, platform suppliers and others supporting clinical delivery, logistics or infrastructure to enable NHS care at home. Evidence must relate to work delivered in the past two years up until the awards entry deadline. 

Ambition

  • Describe the NHS objective the partnership set out to support, such as early discharge, reducing admissions or managing long-term conditions at home.
  • Explain the virtual care model delivered — for example, virtual wards, remote monitoring or in-home clinical support — and how it aligns with national NHS priorities.
  • Set out any agreed goals around capacity, timeliness, safety or reduction in in-person activity. 

Outcome

  • Describe the measurable benefits achieved, such as bed days saved, avoided admissions, reduced face-to-face appointments or earlier interventions.
  • Provide evidence of clinical outcomes, patient safety and user feedback where available.
  • Judges will be looking for data and insight that demonstrate genuine impact on patients and system performance. 

Spread

  • Explain how the model has been scaled or sustained across other services or settings.
  • Describe the partner’s role in enabling wider rollout, standardisation or system integration.
  • Judges are looking for solutions with long-term viability, not single-site pilots. 

Involvement

  • Describe how NHS teams, including clinicians and operational leads, were engaged in shaping, delivering and embedding the service.
  • Explain how joint working enabled safe, seamless care and responsive service improvement.
  • Judges will look for strong collaboration and mutual accountability for success. 

Value

  • Describe how the approach supported better use of NHS resources, including staff time, bed capacity or clinical input.
  • Include any evidence of cost-effectiveness, return on investment or support for NHS productivity.
  • Judges will be looking for partnerships that contribute to long-term system sustainability. 

NEW: Best Partnership Delivering Virtual Care

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