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.
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