Driving Prevention and Early Intervention through Digital

Driving Prevention and Early Intervention through Digital
Driving Prevention and Early Intervention through Digital
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Preventing illness and acting early when health risks arise is at the heart of the NHS's long-term vision for improving outcomes and reducing pressure on services, with the shift from sickness to prevention one of the three defining moves of the 10 Year Health Plan. Digital innovation is helping to make this shift possible, from predictive analytics and AI-enabled diagnostics to remote monitoring, digital health checks, digital weight management and population health tools that identify and support people sooner.

This category will recognise NHS led programmes that have embedded digital approaches into prevention and early intervention at scale. Judges will be looking for projects that are reducing avoidable illness, enabling faster and more targeted responses, and improving outcomes for patients and communities. The strongest entries will demonstrate clear and validated benefits, with evidence from both data and real world experience, and show how improvements are sustained and scalable across the system.

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 specific health challenge or prevention issue your project aimed to address, and the context within which it was developed. Outline your goals, whether they are focused on early intervention, improving patient outcomes, or reducing demand on services, and how they align with the national shift from sickness to prevention.
  • Explain why a digital solution was essential, detailing the strategic thinking behind the project and the reasons for adopting innovative technologies.
  • Clearly define your success metrics, including both qualitative and quantitative benchmarks.

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 the project was co-produced, detailing the collaboration between NHS teams and any technology partners.
  • Provide examples of how key stakeholders, including staff, patients, and external partners such as local authorities and VCSE organisations, contributed to the project's success.
  • Share testimonials and evidence of how patients, carers, and communities were actively involved in the design and delivery of the project.

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.

  • Provide evidence of the improvements achieved in patient care, such as earlier detection, enhanced outcomes, or reduced hospital admissions, with clear before-and-after data, both qualitative and quantitative.
  • Demonstrate how the project was implemented smoothly, ensuring minimal disruption to existing services while driving innovation.
  • Highlight any financial efficiencies, including cost savings or resource optimisation as a result of the project, and any positive effects on staff workflows.

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.

  • Highlight how the outcomes and learnings from your project have been shared within or beyond your organisation to encourage replication or further innovation, including through publications, presentations or toolkits.
  • Provide evidence of successful replication or adaptation in new settings, particularly across organisational boundaries.
  • Discuss the potential for scaling the project across other NHS systems or regions.

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 the digital initiative aligns with the broader strategy to enhance prevention and early intervention, ensuring long-term sustainability and patient-centric care.
  • Explain how the project is being embedded into business as usual, and what resource or funding is in place to sustain it.
  • Describe your plans for sustaining and building on the work, including its contribution to reducing future demand on services.

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