Optimising Clinical Pathways through Digital 

Optimising Clinical Pathways through Digital
Optimising Clinical Pathways through Digital 
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Whilst technology plays its part, real change is delivered through redesigning and transforming care pathways. Digitally driven or transformed care pathways can be better for patients, and save time for clinical and administrative teams.

The central NHS ambition is to deliver digital-by-default care for high volume specialties and long term conditions, with Modern Service Frameworks setting out evidence based, digitally enabled pathways and AI-supported triage models.

Entries into this category can be focused on a specific clinical pathway, or even a component of a clinical pathway (triage, treatment, medication, education, self-care or preparation for discharge). Judges will be particularly interested in digital initiatives that have the potential for scale and spread across other settings or clinical areas.

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 or pathway transformation and the context in which this was required.
  • Explain the project aims and what strategic thinking was done before bringing technology to the table, including what made the redesigned pathway new or distinct from existing best practice.
  • Define the intended measures of success and the steps put in place to achieve them, and how these align with national ambitions for digitally enabled, patient-led pathways.

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?

  • Share how all relevant staff were engaged in the design and implementation of the clinical pathway transformation, including clinical, operational and digital teams across primary, community and secondary care where relevant.
  • Explain how patients, service users or the community were considered and involved in the design, planning 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 solution.

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.

  • Referring back to the targets set above, evidence any improvements in patient access, experience and/or outcome delivered via the new pathway, with clear before-and-after data such as waiting times, appointments avoided or outcomes improved.
  • Describe how the project was seamlessly developed and deployed whilst retaining any existing services to minimise disruption to patients and staff.
  • Discuss to what extent the new digitally-enhanced pathway has helped integration or coordination of care across the system, and evidence how the patient and staff experience has improved, including any financial impacts and value for money.

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 clinical pathway transformation have been shared across and beyond your organisation or system, including through publications, presentations or toolkits.
  • Provide evidence of the pathway being adopted or adapted beyond your immediate team or organisational boundaries, including in other specialties or settings.
  • 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 redesigned pathway is being embedded into standard clinical practice, and what resource or funding is in place to sustain the improvements.
  • Detail any ways that the new pathway is benefiting the patient, organisation or system outside of the original expectations, and how that value will be sustained.
  • Describe your plans for building on the pathway transformation over time, including extending it to further conditions or components of care.

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