NEW: Transforming Children and Young People's Care through Digital

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NEW: Transforming Children and Young People's Care through Digital
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Children and young people too often wait longer for care than adults and experience services designed around organisational rather than family needs. National plans now put this right in the spotlight: improving long waits for children and young people's planned care, expanding mental health support in schools and colleges, introducing paediatric early warning systems, and giving every child access to integrated neighbourhood team support by the end of the decade. The NHS App is even set to provide a 21st century digital alternative to the 'red book', putting children's health records in their parents' pockets.

Digital innovation can transform how children, young people and families access and experience care. This award recognises NHS teams using digital to deliver measurable improvements in access, experience and outcomes for children, young people and families. Judges will look for genuine co-production with children, young people, parents and carers, and evidence of impact across the full range of settings in which their care is delivered.

Eligibility

  • All NHS organisations (including providers, partnerships and systems), General Practice and primary care organisations, working with children, young people and families.
  • 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, including how it aligns with national priorities for children and young people's health and care.
  • Explain the project aims and what strategic thinking was done before bringing technology to the table, including what made your approach new or distinct.
  • 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 children, young people, parents and carers were meaningfully involved in the co-design, planning and implementation of the project, product or service, in age-appropriate ways.
  • Share how all relevant staff - across acute, community, primary care, mental health, education and social 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 access, experience and/or outcomes for children, young people and families, with clear before-and-after comparisons.
  • Describe how the project was deployed whilst minimising disruption to existing services, and evidence the impact on staff and their ability to deliver high quality care.
  • Share any financial impacts of implementation, including evidence relating to value for money and/or efficiencies realised.

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 or replication beyond your immediate team or organisational boundaries.
  • Discuss the scope for further replication or scaling up of this project in other settings or age groups.

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 ambition to raise the healthiest generation of children ever and to intervene earlier in the lives of children and young people.
  • Describe your plans for sustaining and building on the work.

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