Clinical Pathway Redesign Award (NEW)

Clinical Pathway Redesign Award
Clinical Pathway Redesign Award (NEW)
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The NHS is under serious pressure to reform how patients access and move through care. The drive to cut waiting times, reduce unnecessary outpatient appointments, expand straight-to-test pathways and shift care closer to home means that how clinical pathways are designed and delivered is now firmly in the spotlight. Yet too many patients still experience fragmented journeys, avoidable delays and referrals that add little clinical value.

This award recognises NHS teams that have taken a hard look at how patients move through their services and done something about it. Whether that means redesigning a whole service, removing a bottleneck, integrating care across primary, community and secondary settings or finding a smarter way to triage and treat, judges will be looking for projects that have made a genuine, measurable difference, with real evidence of impact and a clear line of sight to better outcomes for patients.

Eligibility

This award is open to all NHS organisations and teams across acute, community, primary and mental health care.

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.

  • What problem were you trying to solve, and why was pathway redesign the right solution? Describe the context and the case for change.
  • What was your vision, and what made it new or distinct from existing best practice?
  • What specific goals and measures of success were set from the outset?

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?

  • How were clinicians, multidisciplinary teams and operational staff across primary, community and secondary care involved in co-designing the new pathway?
  • How were patients and service users involved in shaping the redesign, and how was their input used to inform the new model?
  • Describe any cross-organisational or cross-sector working that was essential to delivering the redesigned pathway.

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.

  • How has the redesigned pathway improved patient access, experience and outcomes? Support your response with quantitative and qualitative data and any relevant external validation
  • What improvements have been achieved in waiting times, outpatient productivity or the reduction of low-value appointments?
  • What has been the impact on staff and the wider system, including financial savings, efficiency gains or capacity released?

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.

  • How has the redesigned pathway been rolled out across your organisation or wider system?
  • What efforts have been made to share learning and best practice with other teams, trusts or systems?
  • What evidence is there that this approach could be replicated or adapted in other specialties or settings?

Sustainability

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

  • How is the redesigned pathway being embedded into standard clinical practice, and what is in place to sustain the improvements?
  • How does this work contribute to the longer-term goal of reforming elective care and reducing unwarranted variation across the NHS?
  • What evidence is there that this pathway model can be built upon or scaled to deliver further improvements?

Clinical Pathway Redesign Award (NEW)

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