Modernising Diagnostics Award

HSJ Awards 2024 - Modernising Diagnostics Award
Modernising Diagnostics Award
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Expanding diagnostic capacity is critical to improving elective and urgent care pathways across the NHS. As Integrated Care Systems take on a greater role in coordinating services, trusts and diagnostic networks are developing new ways to improve efficiency, reduce delays, and enhance patient access. Strengthening collaboration across the system, improving workforce models, and streamlining processes are key to delivering sustainable change.

This award recognises NHS teams that have successfully modernised diagnostic services, whether by improving patient pathways, redesigning workflows, or strengthening collaboration across trusts, ICBs, and networks. Judges will be looking for projects with a clear vision for improvement, backed by measurable success in reducing waiting times, increasing capacity, and enhancing service delivery. Entries should provide evidence of how these improvements have directly benefited patient care and staff experience.

Winning projects will demonstrate how changes have been sustained and scaled, either within a trust or across a wider NHS system. Strong submissions will highlight cross-organisational collaboration, including partnerships within the NHS, and show how best practice has been shared to drive system-wide improvements.

Eligibility

All providers of NHS services across acute, mental health. primary and community care are welcome to enter. Judges particularly welcome NHS-led collaborations across multiple system partners. Solution providers helping the NHS and health sector organisations are invited to enter the HSJ Partnership Awards, which celebrate collaboration with the private sector.

Ambition

  • Provide a clear rationale for the modernisation project - what was the vision and how was this new or different from existing best practice?
  • Detail the targets and/or measures of success that were set, both quantitative or qualitative
  • Discuss any partnership or cross-functional working required to realise the vision

Outcome

  • Describe any direct short and long-term financial impacts of the project
  • Provide specific examples of any new processes, roles, technologies, or ways of working that have been implemented
  • How has the project led to improved efficiencies and turnaround times for diagnostic services across the organisation or system?
  • Evidence how the project has improved patient care, experience and/or outcomes. This must have a quantitative aspect but can include qualitative feedback as well.

Spread

  • How has this initiative been rolled out across your organisation or system?
  • Evidence any efforts made to share your best practice examples with others in the NHS
  • Discuss the potential for this project to deliver positive outcomes elsewhere

Value

  • Share how the project feeds into the wider mission for prevention and early intervention across your system
  • How has population health and the patient experience improved?
  • What has been the impact on staff capacity and experience?
  • Describe how all the above have contributed to value for money

Involvement

  • Detail the different NHS teams or organisations involved in the project, and how they each contributed to its overall success
  • Describe the planning and consultation undertaken with staff, patients, affected population and organisation in the development and design of the project
  • How have the teams involved worked with vendor or private sector partners to deliver results?

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