Driving Change through Data and Analytics Award  

Driving Change through Data and Analytics Award
Driving Change through Data and Analytics Award  
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The NHS generates a vast amount of data which, when effectively collated and analysed, can drive significant improvements in patient care and service delivery. In the current climate, the need for robust data management and insightful analysis has never been more critical. The Federated Data Platform continues to expand, with all providers expected to be on board by the end of the decade, and national initiatives from the Single Patient Record to the Health Data Research Service are pivotal in enabling teams across the NHS to leverage their data assets for actionable insights.

This award will recognise those harnessing the power of the data they hold to bring about positive change in the delivery or planning of care, or a substantial improvement in patient outcomes. Judges want to see where insight has genuinely changed decisions, whether on waiting lists, theatre utilisation, diagnostic capacity, winter bed planning or population health, with clear before and after evidence of what was done differently as a result. Winning projects will showcase the successful implementation of new systems or processes driven by analysis and insight, and entries are welcomed from organisations of every size, including smaller trusts spotting signals in their data and acting on them.

Eligibility

  • All NHS organisations (including providers, partnerships and systems), General Practice and primary care organisations.
  • Evidence must relate to a project, 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.

  • Describe the scope of the project: where did the data come from, how was it collated and analysed to drive business impact?
  • Explain the project drivers: was the analytics project the result of a specific operational or clinical need, or did insights gleaned from data analysis result in a request for change?
  • Define the intended goals and measures of success, and how the work aligns with national ambitions for a more connected, data-driven NHS.

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?

  • Explain how buy-in and engagement was sought from both the stakeholders contributing data and those who were beneficiaries of the project, in the co-design, planning and implementation of the analysis or business change.
  • Share how data was shared effectively across differing departments or organisations to drive the project forwards.
  • Describe and provide testimonial evidence of the working relationship between the technology partner (if relevant) and the NHS organisation that enabled a genuinely co-produced product or service, and how patients were engaged where relevant.

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.

  • Share with supporting information the outcome of the analysis, and what process, service or pathway change recommendations were made to operational/clinical colleagues as a result - judges want to see what decisions were made differently because of the insight.
  • Evidence the performance of the project and resulting process changes against targets, including any operational, on-time delivery, or clinical metrics, with clear before-and-after comparisons.
  • Discuss any financial impacts of the project, including evidence relating to value for money, and any beneficial impacts on staff and patients.

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.

  • Describe, and if possible evidence, how the learnings from the project have been shared across or beyond your organisation/system, including through publications, presentations or toolkits.
  • Provide evidence of the approach being adopted or replicated in other organisations or localities.
  • Discuss the scope for further replication or scaling up of this project 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.

  • Explain how the initiative is being embedded into business as usual, and what governance, resource or funding is in place to sustain it.
  • Discuss the benefits realised by the analytics project, both intended and unforeseen, and how that value has been capitalised on and will endure.
  • Describe how this work contributes to the longer-term ambition of a more connected, data-driven NHS, and your plans to build on it.

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