Digital Team of the Year 

Digital Team of the Year
Digital Team of the Year 
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Developing a sustainable, skilled, and supported digital, data, technology, and informatics workforce is essential to meeting the healthcare needs of the future. As the government drives forward digital transformation in the NHS, building cross-functional teams that include not only IT professionals but also clinicians, AHPs, operations leaders, and lived experience partners is more critical than ever. True transformation requires a diverse range of perspectives and skills, meaning this workforce doesn't have to sit solely within traditional IT/technology departments. Clinicians, AHPs, lived experience partners, operations leaders, and many other professionals across the system are well-positioned to ensure the patient or product user remains at the heart of design. As digital becomes embedded within NHS organisations' wider operational and clinical strategies, and digital delivery becomes the responsibility of every part of the system, cross-functional teams are growing in importance.

Not limited solely to the CIO and their department, this award will recognise a team that has played a key role in delivering successful digital transformation across the NHS or wider system. Judges will be particularly impressed by cross-functional working and coproduction of services with patients and clinicians from across the wider organisation or system.

Eligibility

  • All NHS organisations (including providers, partnerships and systems), General Practice and primary care organisations.
  • Entries are also welcomed from collaborative groups from across differing organisations, including those which aren't solely NHS bodies (third sector).
  • Evidence must relate to the 2 years up until the award entry deadline.

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 cultural context of digital across the organisation/system, and any relevant recent history to show why the team was brought together.
  • Outline the vision, goals and targets set by the team, the plans or roadmap to deliver them, and how these align with organisational, system and national priorities.
  • Discuss how the team engage with colleagues, stakeholders and patients in developing their vision and planning to ensure inclusivity and deliver user-centric products or services.

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?

  • Provide testimonial and/or supporting evidence of how the team have inspired and engaged differing teams across the organisation with the digital agenda, and created digital champions across the system.
  • Describe how the team have inspired and helped develop a digital culture across your organisation/system, providing specific examples of how they have directly influenced the behaviour of colleagues.
  • Share how the team have included and involved patients, families and/or communities in their digital initiatives and planning.

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.

  • Evidence how the performance of the organisation/system has improved as a result of the team's actions. This should be both qualitative and quantitative, with clear before-and-after comparisons, and make reference to the targets above.
  • Provide examples of specific digital initiatives, products or projects that the team have introduced and clearly show how they have positively impacted patients and staff, and helped improve integration or coordination of care.
  • Share any financial benefits the team have delivered within your organisation/system - how have they proven the value for money of their work?

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.

  • Demonstrate how projects delivered by the team have embedded and spread throughout the organisation or system.
  • Share how the team have looked beyond the organisation/system to share knowledge and experience with others, including through publications, presentations, toolkits or networks.
  • Provide evidence of how their work could be, or has been, replicated and scaled in other settings.

Sustainability

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

  • Discuss any focus given to developing digital career pathways and professional development opportunities for colleagues, to ensure the skills, talent and knowledge is retained within the team or wider organisation long-term.
  • Evidence how the team have helped improve digital literacy across your organisation or system's leadership and/or wider workforce - this could be qualitative or quantitative.
  • Describe how the team's ways of working and achievements will be sustained and built upon over time.

Digital Team of the Year 

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