Primary and Community Care Project of the Year

Primary Care Project of the Year
Primary and Community Care Project of the Year
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  1. Pay the entry fee.
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Primary and community care services are carrying a growing share of NHS activity, from managing long term conditions and early intervention to urgent care and follow up. Yet many services are at capacity, facing persistent workforce gaps and rising complexity of need.

Meeting this demand requires new thinking: more flexible models of care, stronger multidisciplinary teams, and smarter use of data and technology to direct patients to the right support, closer to home. These solutions often come through effective collaboration with private sector partners who can bring speed, expertise and tools the NHS can’t deploy alone.

This category is for partnerships that have strengthened access, delivery or outcomes in primary or community care, whether in a neighbourhood team, across a locality or at system level. Judges will be looking for initiatives designed around real patient and staff needs, showing strong local engagement and measurable improvements in care.

Eligibility

  • This award is open to any private sector organisation which works in partnership with an NHS organisation in a primary or community care setting
  • Single partnership or joint working projects
  • Eligible projects should have shown clear results within the last two years up to the awards submission deadline

Ambition

  • Describe the context of the partnership and the reason that innovation or improvements were required.
  • Provide clear evidence that the co-developed solution served the patient or service user better than the NHS was able to deliver alone.
  • Outline the targets set to measure the effectiveness of the improvement, innovation, or new way of working and the steps put in place to achieve them.

Outcome

  • Clearly demonstrate the benefits of the partnership on patient outcomes, which could include improved patient experience, waiting time reduction, capacity increase or optimised treatment pathways.
  • Discuss how the NHS has benefited from the partnership in terms of staffing, cost, reducing inefficiencies or ability to provide services.
  • Describe any innovative practices generated by the partnership which have created beneficial outcomes.

Spread

  • Describe how the business has worked with the NHS to ensure best practice learning has been disseminated.
  • Discuss to what extent the best practice elements or innovations generated by the partnership have been adopted by other NHS organisations within the wider STP/ICS.

Involvement

  • Describe how the different partners worked together to co-design improvements or innovations
  • Show how patients and staff contributed towards and added value to the goals and outcomes of the partnership
  • Evidence the consultative measures taken to inform, involve and enable participation in the design of any new innovation or adaptation to existing working practices

Value

  • What financial benefits have been realised by the partnership, or if partnering has cost the NHS more money than delivering the project alone, how have the non-monetary benefits outweighed the costs?
  • How has the partnership led to material and measurable non-monetary improvements within the NHS organisation?
  • Provide testimonial evidence of the effectiveness of the partnership from both NHS staff and patients

Primary and Community Care Project of the Year

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