Neighbourhood and Community Care Innovation of the Year

Neighbourhood and Community Care Innovation of the Year
Neighbourhood and Community Care Innovation of the Year
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Strengthening access to care and transforming the point of care from hospital into the community or the home are essential levers for future NHS sustainability, reducing waiting lists and optimising hospital utilisation. This means everything from neighbourhood health teams delivering proactive, place-based care for local populations, to community services reaching people where they live. Making this a reality means finding innovative ways to deliver out of hospital care, whether that's through new workforce roles and ways of working, collaborations across providers or with system partners, creative thinking about place of care, or digital interventions to increase capacity and access.

The judges will be looking for innovations which have proven themselves to be effective and are demonstrating value although might not have significant evidence. Judges are also looking for evidence-based innovations based on existing best practice leading to better neighbourhood and community care. We are particularly keen to hear about innovations which have had a cross-organisation and cross-sector impact.

Eligibility

This award is open to NHS neighbourhood and community teams and organisations which can demonstrate improved outcomes as a result of innovation. 

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 challenge your innovation was designed to address and the context in which it arose, including how it aligns with the national drive to shift care out of hospital and into communities.
  • What was your vision, and what made it new or distinct from existing best practice?
  • How were solutions researched, tested and refined, and what measures were put in place to assess effectiveness?

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 patients, service users, carers and communities meaningfully involved in shaping the innovation?
  • Provide evidence of how staff across different roles and organisations contributed to co-designing and delivering the work, including any cross-sector partnerships with local authorities, VCSE organisations or social care.
  • How did working across organisational boundaries enable results that would not have been possible otherwise?

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 innovation improved patient care, experience, outcomes or value for money? Include quantitative and qualitative data.
  • What has been the impact on staff, including on capacity, ways of working or workforce sustainability?
  • What difference has this made to the wider system, including in reducing demand on hospitals, improving discharge, or freeing up capacity elsewhere?

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 learning been shared beyond your immediate team or organisation, for example through publications, events, toolkits or system partnerships?
  • What evidence is there that this innovation could be adopted or adapted elsewhere, including within emerging neighbourhood health models?
  • What partnerships or follow-on initiatives have been inspired by your work?

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 this innovation being embedded into business as usual, and what resource or funding is in place to sustain it?
  • What evidence is there that this work can be built upon or replicated by other teams or systems?
  • How does this innovation contribute to the longer-term shift of care out of hospital and into the community?

To find out more

Partnership opportunities:  Sponsorship Sales Team
Awards entry enquiries: Delegate Sales Team
Judging and event management: Awards Support