NEW: Most Impactful Partnership in Population Health

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NEW: Most Impactful Partnership in Population Health
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  1. Pay the entry fee.
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  3. Use the link to register an account and begin your entry, you can save your progress and return to it any time before the deadline.
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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

  • 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 any specific goals for the work, such as reducing inequalities, improving targeting, enabling earlier intervention or increasing uptake of key services. 

Outcomes

  • Detail the measurable changes that resulted from the partnership, including improvements in access, outcomes, planning or service delivery.
  • Provide evidence such as data, dashboards or qualitative feedback from NHS partners to show how impact was monitored and understood.
  • Judges will be looking for real-world results that demonstrate a clear benefit to NHS teams, patients or systems. 

Spread

  • Explain how the model, insight or service has been replicated, adapted or scaled in other areas, teams or settings.
  • Describe how learning from the partnership has been shared across the NHS, including any contributions to system-wide best practice.
  • Judges will be looking for evidence of wider relevance and impact beyond a single use case. 

Involvement

  • Outline how the NHS partner and supplier worked together throughout the project, from planning to delivery and review.
  • Highlight the contribution of clinicians, analysts, public health or frontline staff and how they influenced the approach.
  • Judges will be looking for genuine collaboration and shared ownership of success. 

Value

  • Describe how the work supported better decision-making, more effective resource use, or improved targeting of care or prevention.
  • Provide evidence of cost-effectiveness or improved return on investment for the NHS organisation.
  • Judges are looking for partnerships that have delivered practical benefit and long-term value, not just technical innovation. 

NEW: Most Impactful Partnership in Population Health

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To find out more

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