Workforce Resourcing Solution of the Year

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Workforce Resourcing Solution of the Year
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Workforce remains the NHS's biggest challenge. Persistent vacancies, rising demand and tight finances mean trusts and systems must staff services safely while getting better value from every pound spent on their people. The Medium Term Planning Framework sets clear expectations on workforce cost and productivity, and services need resourcing models that deliver the right staff, with the right skills, in the right place at the right time. 

Workforce solution providers play a vital role in meeting this challenge. This includes recruitment at home and internationally, managed and collaborative staff banks, e-rostering and deployment technology, retention and wellbeing programmes, and new roles and skill mix models that release clinical time. 

This award will recognise a partnership between a workforce solution provider and one or more NHS organisations that has improved how the NHS attracts, deploys or retains its people. Judges will be looking for measurable improvements in fill rates, safe staffing, retention or value for money, delivered in genuine partnership with NHS teams and with clear benefit for patients and staff. 

Eligibility

  • Open to recruitment, staffing, workforce technology and other private sector organisations working in partnership with one or more NHS organisations to improve workforce resourcing 
  • Entries must demonstrate measurable improvements in areas such as fill rates, temporary staffing spend, retention, safe staffing or productivity 
  • Evidence must relate to work delivered within the past two years up until the awards entry 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 workforce challenge the partnership addressed, such as vacancies, temporary staffing costs or retention, and the context for change. 
  • Explain how the work aligns with national workforce priorities on safe staffing, retention and productivity. 
  • Set out the goals and targets agreed and how success was defined. 

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 provider worked with NHS workforce, clinical and operational teams to design and deliver the solution. 
  • Explain how staff were engaged and how the approach supported their experience of work. 
  • Provide evidence of joint working through implementation and review. 

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 fill rates, safer staffing, better retention or workforce cost savings. 
  • Share before-and-after data and feedback from NHS staff and managers. 
  • Demonstrate value for money and the benefit for patient care. 

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 solution has been adopted or adapted across other teams, sites or organisations. 
  • Describe how learning and best practice have been shared across the NHS. 

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 improvements are sustained as workforce needs evolve. 
  • Explain how the partnership supports a sustainable, substantive NHS workforce over the long term. 

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