Digital Transformation Organisation of the Year

Digital Transformation Organisation of the Year
Digital Transformation Organisation of the Year
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Digital transformation is now central to how NHS organisations are addressing their operational, clinical and financial pressures. Those making the greatest impact are reshaping how care is delivered, how staff work, and how services connect. Progress in digital maturity must be matched by real world improvements in patient outcomes, staff experience and organisational performance, and with the 10 Year Health Plan expecting organisations to invest in service transformation, the bar is rising.

The winner of this award will be an NHS organisation which has increased their digital maturity to face their operational, financial and clinical challenges. A Digital Transformation 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. Entries are welcomed from organisations of every type and size, from acute and mental health trusts to community, primary care and system organisations.

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 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.

  • Discuss the biggest operational, clinical and financial challenges faced by the organisation, and how you have aligned your digital strategy and vision accordingly, including with national priorities such as the 10 Year Health Plan.
  • Outline the vision, goals and targets enabling you to improve your organisation's digital maturity and the plans or roadmap to deliver them.
  • Describe the 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.

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?

  • 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, including joined-up working between clinical, operational, transformation and digital teams.
  • Discuss how patients, families and/or communities have been engaged in digital initiatives and planning.
  • Discuss any security, privacy or ethical concerns and how they were addressed in the development and planning of new initiatives.

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.

  • Describe the changing digital maturity of your organisation over the last 2 years, and evidence how digital has contributed to improved performance of the organisation in this timeframe. This should be both qualitative and quantitative, with clear before-and-after evidence, and make reference to the targets above.
  • Using supporting material, provide examples of specific digital initiatives, products or projects delivered and clearly show how they have positively impacted patients and staff.
  • Share any financial benefits the digital strategy has delivered within your organisation and the overall return on the organisation's investment in digital, including how improved digital maturity has helped integration or coordination of care.

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 individual initiatives have embedded and spread throughout the organisation or system.
  • 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.
  • Evidence how digital literacy across your organisation or system's leadership and/or wider workforce has improved.

Sustainability

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

  • Discuss how acting on the digital strategy has improved patient experience, staff satisfaction, capacity, the working environment, and/or efficiency in ways that will endure.
  • Explain how digital transformation is funded and governed for the long term, including investment in service transformation.
  • Describe your plans for building on your digital maturity over the coming years.

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