Integrated Care Initiative of the Year

HSJ Awards 2024 - Integrated Care Initiative of the Year
Integrated Care Initiative of the Year
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As Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and Integrated Care Partnerships (ICPs) continue to drive transformation, the focus is on delivering measurable improvements through system-wide collaboration. This award is open to ICBs and ICPs leading initiatives that go beyond organisational boundaries, using partnerships, data-driven approaches, and shared expertise to improve patient outcomes, service efficiency, and population health.

This award recognises a specific initiative or programme that has improved care coordination, access and tackled inequalities. Judges will be looking for initiatives that demonstrate cross-sector collaboration - including NHS, local authorities, and wider public sector - to address key health challenges and optimise resources.

The strongest submissions will provide clear evidence of impact, showing how integrated working has reduced inequalities, improved patient experience, or strengthened workforce sustainability. Judges are particularly interested in initiatives that have been scaled or embedded to deliver lasting system-wide benefits.

Eligibility

The award is open to any Integrated Care Board (ICB) or Integrated Care Partnership (ICP). Local-level/smaller-scale projects focused on integrated working should be entered into either the place-based partnership or provider collaboration category.   

Ambition

  • Describe the biggest challenges facing your system in the past 2-3 years and how you are collaborating to resolve them
  • Share the overarching vision for your system-wide initiative, and how this was developed
  • Describe how you are balancing financial challenges with delivering high quality services for your local population, and working to achieve best value for money
  • Discuss the staffing and cultural challenges across your local area, and how they are being addressed at a system level
  • Share both the short and medium/longer-term goals for improving population health and reducing inequalities across the ICS

Outcome

  • How are the short-term goals and medium/longer term vision being achieved? Share examples of three specific initiatives in your supporting material that demonstrate this point
  • Describe system performance against both national and local targets, and where integration has led to measurable improvements
  • Provide quantitative and qualitative evidence of how integration across the system is leading to better patient outcomes, improved experiences, enhanced population health, and/or increased efficiency
  • Share any initiatives that are improving staff wellbeing, inclusion and retention across the system. Provide supporting evidence (staff surveys, testimonials etc) to evidence the results  

Spread

  • How have the benefits and best practices from system-wide partnership been implemented at place and neighbourhood levels?
  • How does the system work effectively with others at a regional or national level to share best practice?

Value

  • Evidence how the system is improving outcomes in population health, and tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience and access for patients/citizens
  • Share how efficiencies, productivity gains, and financial sustainability are being realised across the system
  • Discuss how the ICS is supporting broader social and economic development across the region

Involvement

  • Describe the mechanisms for neighbourhood, place and system level input into the overarching vision and strategy
  • How are leaders across the system collaborating to develop a shared vision, culture and values?  
  • How were patients, citizens, local communities and the workforce all consulted and engaged with the development of the integrated care strategy?
  • Provide testimonial evidence from different partners and affected parties to support your claims

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