Best outcomes award
Many of our residents experience a greater number of years spent in ill health than the England average and as a result are more likely to experience multiple long-term conditions that increase their risk of hospital admission.
This award is for a project or service that can demonstrate measurable outcomes, showing improvements in population health and healthcare.
You will score more highly if your application includes details of the following:
- A compelling reason to make a change or improvement
- Evidence (clear measures) that an improvement has been made in outcomes/experience
- Creativity, innovation, teamwork, and good citizen/staff engagement
Health inequalities award
In Nottingham and Nottinghamshire there is a significant gap in healthy life expectancy between the most and least affluent areas of the county. This can be influenced by personal characteristics, lifestyle factors and general socioeconomic, cultural and environmental conditions.
You will score more highly if your application includes details of the following:
- Promoting and enabling access to services for people with protected characteristics.
- Harnessing the power of the wider determinants of health in your work
- Using data to reduce health inequalities.
- Working with partners to plan services across an area.
Value for money award
We have a duty to ensure that we make the very best use of the funding received for health and care.
This award is for a project or service that can demonstrate better value, improved ways of working and better support for local people.
You will score more highly if your application includes details of the following:
- Evidence of savings to health and care budgets.
- An improvement in citizen or patient experience at lower cost
- Working with partners to reduce duplication.
- Joining data and intelligence across partner organisations.
Social value award
The ICS partner organisations employ 70,000 people and have a combined spend on goods and services of £3.6 billion.
This award is for an organisation, service or project that can demonstrate social value by delivering sustainable health and care services, supporting communities with issues such as the rising cost of living or by improving employment opportunities.
You will score more highly if your application includes details of the following:
- Compelling evidence of going beyond normal service delivery.
- Evidence of improving the building blocks of health and reducing health inequalities.
- Evidence of working with other organisations, including the private sector.
Prevention award
By focusing on prevention, we can make sure we use our limited resources most efficiently and improve people’s health and wellbeing.
This award is for a service or project that can demonstrate a successful preventative approach by taking into account the building blocks of good health.
You will score more highly if your application includes details of the following:
- Evidence that a preventative approach has reduced demand in another area of the system.
- Working with partners to plan services across an area / around people’s needs.
- Using data to plan a preventative approach.
Equity award
Not all people have equal health and care access, experience or indeed outcomes. Equity is about tailoring the approach to people’s needs to make things fair.
This award is for a service or project that can demonstrate a greater level of support or resource for some communities to help them achieve similar outcomes to others.
You will score more highly if your application includes details of the following:
- Evidence that approaches have been tailored to people’s individual needs.
- Evidence that a greater level of intensity has been provided to those communities with a higher level of disadvantage.
Lord Lieutenant’s partnership award
Partnership work is key to the success of our health and care system and it is vital that organisations work together to plan services and support around the needs of our populations.
The Lord Lieutenant’s partnership award is for a service or project that can demonstrate collaboration and integration to achieve a joint goal.
You will score more highly if your application includes details of the following:
- Evidence of listening to the ideas, experiences and best practice of others to improve services.
- Evidence of working together to plan seamless services across an area / around people’s needs.
- Evidence of evaluation demonstrating how partnership working has improved satisfaction outcomes and achieved a joint goal.
- Evidence of how the partnership work will be continued in the future.
Lord Lieutenant’s health and care award
This award will be presented to one overall winner, based on the nominations for the seven categories.
