Trust of the Year

HSJ Awards 2024 - 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

  • What is the overall vision for the trust? Provide supporting evidence for any claims made, with referenced information.
  • What are the biggest challenges which have faced the trust in the past few years? How is the trust facing these challenges?
  • Describe the financial sustainability of the trust and provide relevant detail in the supporting evidence.
  • What are the staffing and cultural challenges including retention, well-being, freedom to speak up, inclusion and representation?
  • Describe the focus on safety and clinical excellence.
  • Provide supporting evidence for any claims made, with referenced information.

Outcome

  • How is the vision being achieved? Share an example of a specific initiative in your supporting material that supports this point.
  • Describe trust performance against national, regional and local targets.
  • What initiatives are improving staff wellbeing, representation and inclusion across the trust? Provide supporting evidence (staff surveys, testimonials etc) to evidence the results.
  • How does the trust maintain and continually improve patient safety? Include a description of how a positive and learning culture contributes to safety.
  • How do partnerships, collaborations and integrated care initiatives contribute toward care excellence at the trust?

Spread

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

Value

  • How does the trust approach patient experience and provide services which meet expectations?
  • Describe service initiatives designed to improve efficiency and reduce variation enabling a better quality of care for patients.
  • Discuss how value for money is being realised across the trust, and evidence how this has impacted patient outcomes

Involvement

  • How does the trust engage with its staff? What efforts are made to involve staff in the vision for the trust?
  • How does the trust engage with patients, carers and families and how are they involved with the vision for the trust?
  • Describe initiatives which create well-being and satisfaction in the workforce, with specific examples of initiatives which focus on culture, participation and representation.
  • Describe any joint initiatives with other organisations providing health and care including integrated services, partnerships and local government.

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