NEW: Advancing Long-Term Condition Management through Digital

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NEW: Advancing Long-Term Condition Management through Digital
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Millions of people in England live with one or more long-term conditions, and supporting them accounts for a substantial share of NHS activity and spend. National policy is shifting decisively towards proactive, personalised, digitally enabled management: from integrated neighbourhood teams focused on people with multiple long-term conditions, to Modern Service Frameworks setting out digital-by-default care for major conditions, to remote monitoring, wearables and supported self-management through the NHS App.

Digital tools can transform the experience of living with a long-term condition: helping people understand and manage their own health, enabling clinicians to monitor and intervene earlier, personalising care plans, and reducing the need for hospital-based appointments.

This award recognises NHS teams using digital and data to deliver measurable improvements in the management of long-term conditions. Judges will look for clear evidence of improved outcomes, experience and self-management, reduced avoidable demand on services, and genuine co-production with the people living with the conditions concerned.

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.

  • Provide a clear rationale for the digital project, product or service and the context in which this was required - which condition or conditions were you focused on, and why was a digital approach essential?
  • Explain how the work aligns with national ambitions for proactive, personalised and digitally enabled long-term condition management.
  • Define the intended measures of success and the steps put in place to achieve them, and discuss how the risks of exclusion or exacerbating inequalities were considered and mitigated.

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 people living with long-term conditions, and their carers, were meaningfully involved in the co-design, planning and implementation of the project, product or service.
  • Share how all relevant staff and multidisciplinary teams - across primary, community and secondary care where relevant - were engaged in the design and implementation.
  • 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.

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 qualitative and quantitative evidence of improved condition management, outcomes, experience and/or access, with clear before-and-after comparisons.
  • Show how the project has supported earlier intervention, improved self-management or reduced avoidable admissions, appointments or exacerbations.
  • Share any financial impacts of implementation, including evidence relating to value for money, and the impact on staff capacity and ways of working.

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 and beyond your organisation or system, including through publications, presentations or toolkits.
  • Provide evidence of adoption across multiple conditions, pathways, sites or organisations.
  • 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 work is being embedded into business as usual, and what resource or funding is in place to sustain it.
  • Discuss how this work contributes to the longer-term shifts from hospital to community and sickness to prevention.
  • Describe your plans for sustaining and building on the work as long-term condition management models evolve.

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