NEW: Enabling Neighbourhood and Community Care through Digital

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NEW: Enabling Neighbourhood and Community Care through Digital
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Neighbourhood health is at the heart of the 10 Year Health Plan and the shift of care from hospital to community. The Neighbourhood Health Framework sets out how integrated neighbourhood teams, neighbourhood health centres and new provider models will deliver more proactive, joined up, place based care - with the first wave of implementation sites and neighbourhood health centres already under way. Making this a reality depends on digital: shared care records that let multidisciplinary teams work as one, population health data to identify and support high priority cohorts, remote monitoring and virtual wards that bring hospital level care into the home, and tools that connect the NHS with social care, local government and voluntary sector partners.

This award will recognise the NHS teams using digital and data to enable neighbourhood and community-based care and improve experience and outcomes for local people. Judges are looking for initiatives which show how digital and data are enabling new, holistic models of care across organisational and sector boundaries - health and non-health alike - and will be particularly interested in examples bringing together multiple partners, with staff and citizens fully engaged in project planning.

Eligibility

  • All NHS organisations (including providers, partnerships, and systems), General Practice and primary care organisations, and their social care, local authority or VCSE partners.
  • 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 how care for your local population was delivered prior to the project, and therefore the context and need for change - why was a digital solution required?
  • Explain the aims of the project and how they support proactive, coordinated, community-based care, including alignment with the national shift of care from hospital to community and the development of neighbourhood health.
  • Define the intended measures of success and the steps put in place to achieve them.

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 and evidence the working relationship between the NHS organisation, the technology partner (if relevant) and other partners within the neighbourhood or system - including social care, local government and VCSE organisations - that enabled a genuinely co-produced service.
  • Explain how buy-in and engagement was sought from all the organisations contributing data and delivering care, and how multidisciplinary teams across organisational boundaries were brought together.
  • Explain how patients, carers, citizens and communities were fully engaged in the co-design, planning and implementation of the 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 access, independence, patient choice and health outcomes, with clear before-and-after comparisons.
  • Show how the service has enabled earlier intervention, reduced reliance on hospital-based care - including admissions avoided, earlier discharge or improved flow - or improved long-term condition management in the community.
  • 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.

  • Provide evidence of adoption across multiple services, pathways, neighbourhoods or organisations - judges are particularly interested in work that has crossed organisational and sector boundaries.
  • Describe, and if possible evidence, how the learnings have been shared across and beyond your organisation or system, including through publications, presentations or toolkits.
  • Outline the potential and plans for scaling or replicating the approach, including within emerging neighbourhood health models.

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 service 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 shift of care out of hospital and into the community, and to the development of sustainable neighbourhood health services.
  • Describe your plans for sustaining and building on the work as neighbourhood models mature.

NEW: Enabling Neighbourhood and Community Care through Digital

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