How to apply
To begin your entry:
- Pay the entry fee.
- You’ll receive an email with a link to start your submission.
- 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.
As the NHS Patient Safety Strategy evolves, there is a renewed focus on the principle of continuous safety improvement, underpinned by a safety culture and effective safety system. At the heart of this lies the aim of a zero-avoidable harm environment, with various initiatives such as PSIRF, LFPSE, the emerging Patient Safety Specialist role and others driving change towards the goal of saving an additional 1,000 lives and £100 million per year.
The adoption of new technologies, enhancements in education and training, new systems or a complete redesign in working practices all play their part in risk reduction and patient safety improvements, and partnership working is fundamental to these developments.
This award will recognise those projects and partnerships that have in some way improved the identification and reduction of risk to patients or helped develop a culture in which incidents are reliably reported, investigated, and learnt from. The partnership may or may not have patient safety as its primary goal, yet demonstrable improvements in patient care and the avoidance of harm are what the judges are looking to recognise.
Eligibility
- This award is open to any private or not-for-profit organisation which works in partnership with an NHS organisation
- Single partnership or joint working projects
- Eligible projects should have shown clear results within the last two years up to the awards submission deadline