Trust of the Year

Trust of the year
Trust of the Year
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Trusts continue to operate in a shifting NHS landscape, with a renewed focus on reducing growing waiting lists, managing surging demands on emergency care, accelerating digital transformation, and addressing workforce challenges, while ensuring financial sustainability and supporting staff well-being.

Judges will be looking for organisations that have taken on the biggest challenges: reducing waiting times, improving clinical quality, and ensuring financial resilience, while keeping staff well-being and inclusivity at the core of their approach. The winner of this award will be an organisation that is tackling these challenges head-on and setting new standards in delivering outstanding, patient-centred care.

The award will recognise those trusts which are offering excellent, patient-centric care, underpinned by strong collaboration between clinicians both within and beyond the organisation. We are particularly seeking organisations with a clear understanding of how they will need to adapt to meet evolving healthcare needs and create a viable long-term local health economy.

Eligibility

This award is open to all NHS public sector acute, mental health, ambulance, and specialist trusts across the UK.

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 is the overall vision for the trust? Provide supporting evidence for any claims made, with referenced information.
  • What are the biggest challenges it has faced in recent years? How is the trust responding to these challenges, including around waiting times, financial sustainability and workforce pressures?
  • What are the staffing and cultural challenges the trust faces, including around retention, wellbeing, freedom to speak up, inclusion and representation, and how is it addressing these?
  • Describe the trust's focus on safety and clinical excellence, providing supporting evidence and referenced information for any claims made

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 does the trust engage with its staff and involve them in shaping the vision and direction of the organisation? Describe initiatives which support culture, participation and representation
  • How does the trust engage with patients, carers and families, and how are they involved in shaping services and care?
  • Describe joint initiatives with other organisations providing health and care, including integrated services, partnerships and local government, and how these contribute to care excellence

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 is the vision being achieved? Share a specific example of an initiative in your supporting material that demonstrates this
  • Describe trust performance against national, regional and local targets, and how the trust maintains and continually improves patient safety through a positive learning culture
  • What initiatives are improving staff wellbeing, representation and inclusion, and what evidence, including staff surveys and testimonials, demonstrates the results?

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 does the trust work with other healthcare organisations to spread best practice learning?
  • Describe a specific initiative with supporting evidence that demonstrates the trust's efforts to share improvements and what has been achieved as a result
  • How does the trust work collaboratively across the ICS to ensure seamless care delivery, and what makes it a valuable and responsive partner within the system?

Sustainability

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

  • How does the trust approach patient experience and deliver services which meet expectations, and how is value for money being realised?
  • Describe service initiatives designed to improve efficiency and reduce variation, and evidence how these have impacted patient outcomes
  • How does the trust demonstrate financial resilience and a viable long-term vision for its role within the local health economy?

To find out more

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