Primary and Community Care Project of the Year

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Primary and Community Care Project of the Year
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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

The challenge and context within which your project, person or organisation is set alongside your goals and targets whether quantitative or qualitative, and how this aligns with national priorities.

  • Describe the primary or community care challenge the project addressed and the context for change. 
  • Set out the goals agreed and how the work supports the shift of care into the community. 
  • Explain why the partnership approach was the right one.

Collaboration

The stakeholders’ involvement in co-designing and delivering the project. How have patients, staff at all levels, communities and other parties worked together to realise the outcomes? 

  • Describe how the partner worked with primary care, community teams and patients. 
  • Explain how the project integrated with existing pathways and neighbourhood working. 
  • Provide evidence of joint design and delivery.

Impact

The measurable benefits delivered to patients, staff, your organisation or the wider system. Provide data and evidence showing improvements to outcomes, quality, access, equity or efficiency. 

  • Provide measurable evidence of improved access, outcomes or experience. 
  • Share before-and-after data and feedback from patients and clinicians. 
  • Demonstrate efficiency and value for money.

Scale

How your work has been shared, adopted or replicated beyond your immediate team or organisation. This includes dissemination through publications, presentations, toolkits, partnerships or inspiring similar initiatives elsewhere. 

  • Explain how the model has been adopted or adapted in other areas. 
  • Describe how learning has been shared.

Sustainability

The potential for the project/work to continue and create lasting impact. Evidence of how it can be sustained or built upon. 

  • Describe how the project is sustained within ongoing community provision. 
  • Explain how it supports wider neighbourhood health ambitions.

Primary and Community Care Project of the Year

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