Digital Organisation of the Year

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As the new government continues to drive digital transformation, enhancing digital maturity across healthcare organisations is a critical priority. Building on the existing £3.4 billion investment in data and technology, Labour’s focus is on embedding digital systems to address operational challenges, reduce waiting times, and improve patient outcomes. The push towards fully digitised services is no longer a future goal but an immediate necessity. NHS organisations are expected to leverage cutting-edge technologies such as real-time data platforms, AI-driven diagnostics, and enhanced scheduling systems to boost productivity and efficiency across clinical and operational settings.

The winner of this award will be an NHS organisation which has increased their digital maturity to face their operational, financial and clinical challenges head on. A Digital Organisation of the Year will be able to demonstrate a sustained improvement in digital maturity that translates into safer, better care. Judges are looking for high levels of staff engagement with the digital agenda from all areas of the organisation, and clear evidence that increased digital maturity has directly benefited patient outcomes.

Eligibility

  • All NHS organisations (including providers, partnerships and systems), General Practice and primary care organisations.
  • Evidence provided and projects/workstreams impacting the entry should be ongoing or completed within the 3 years up until the award entry deadline.

Ambition

  • Discussthe biggest operational, clinical and financial challenges faced by the organisation, and how you have aligned your digital strategy and vision accordingly.
  • Outlinethe vision, goals and targets enabling you to improve your organisations digital maturity and the plans or roadmap to deliver
  • Describethe cultural context of digital across the organisation, and how key stakeholders and patients were engaged in developing the vision and strategy to ensure inclusivity and deliver user-centric products or services.

Outcome

  • Describethe changing digital maturity of your organisation over the last 2
  • Discusshow the digital vision is being achieved, and how a digital culture has been developed across the
  • Evidence howdigital has contributed to improved performance of the organisation in this This should be both qualitative and quantitative, and make reference to the targets above.
  • Usingsupporting material, provide examples of specific digital initiatives, products or projects delivered and clearly show how they have positively impacted patients and staff.

Value

  • Evidence how an improved digital maturity has helped improve integration or coordination of care across the
  • Discuss how acting on the digital strategy has improved patient experience, staff satisfaction, capacity, the working environment, and/or
  • Share any financial benefits the digital strategy has delivered within your organisation and the overall ROI of the organisations investment in

Involvement

  • Describe how you have developed a digital culture across your organisation, providing specific examples of how you have directly influenced the behaviour of staff at all levels.
  • Discuss any security, privacy or ethical concerns and how they were addressed in the development and planning of new
  • Share any joined-up working between clinical/operational/transformation and digital
  • Discuss how patients, families and/or communities have been communicated in digital initiatives and Spread
  • Demonstrate how individual initiatives have embedded and spread throughout the organisation or
  • Evidencehow digital literacy across your organisation or system’s leadership and/or wider workforce has
  • Share how you have looked beyond the organisation to share knowledge and experience with others, or how your work could be blueprinted or replicated elsewhere.

Spread

  • Demonstrate how individual initiatives have embedded and spread throughout the organisation or system.
  • Evidence how digital literacy across your organisation or system’s leadership and/or wider workforce has improved.
  • Share how you have looked beyond the organisation to share knowledge and experience with others, or how your work could be blueprinted or replicated elsewhere.

Digital Organisation of the Year

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Entries, attendance and partnership enquiries, contact Faysal Chaudhry 
Media and marketing enquiries, contact Honey de Gracia
Judging and event management, contact Awards Support