Neighbourhood and Community Health Safety Initiative of the Year

Neighbourhood and Community Health Safety Initiative of the Year
Neighbourhood and Community Health Safety Initiative of the Year
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Improving safety and wellbeing within communities requires deep understanding of local risks, strong partnerships, and proactive approaches to preventing harm. With a national shift towards neighbourhood health, these localised initiatives play a vital role in providing safe, accessible, and preventative care closer to home.

This award recognises initiatives that have measurably improved patient safety, reduced preventable harm, and strengthened equitable health outcomes through community-led or neighbourhood approaches. Judges will look for projects that reduce avoidable hospital use, support safer self-management, and address social or environmental risks affecting health and safety. By embedding patient safety into every aspect of care delivery, these projects demonstrate how neighbourhood care can achieve exceptional outcomes, and this award honours the teams driving these initiatives.

Eligibility

This award is open to all NHS organisations, local authorities, ICBs, and voluntary or community sector partners who can demonstrate improved patient safety and outcomes.

Ambition

  • Provide a clear rationale for the work, and identify the safety issue, risk, or inequality the initiative set out to address.
  • Describe the project goals, target population, and design of the safety solution- how did this draw on, or differ from, existing best practice?
  • Explain any alignment with national or regional integrated care and population-health safety priorities

Outcome

  • Clearly demonstrate the benefits of the initiative on quality of care, using quantitative evidence (e.g. reduced emergency escalations, improved monitoring etc) to show tangible positive impacts on the safety of patients or reduction in preventable harm
  • Discuss any other positive outcomes that were a result of the initiative, which could include improved patient experience, waiting time reduction, capacity increase or optimised treatment pathways.
  • Include patient and/or staff testimonials supporting the efficacy of the initiate.

Spread

  • Provide evidence of sustained safety impact across your organisation or system
  • Show how these improvements in provision of safe, high-quality neighbourhood care are replicable and scalable.
  • Outline the efforts made to share best practice, or examples of where this project has embedded and spread to other departments, settings or organisations.

Value

  • Clearly evidence how the initiative has improved value for patients, clinicians, and community partners, in terms of patient experience, staff satisfaction and quality of care – and include testimonials to support these claims
  • Demonstrate how resources were used efficiently to improve safety and outcomes
  • If possible, provide evidence of value creation in other areas

Involvement

  • Show how patients, residents and communities were involved in decisions around their care, and their views were embedded in the design of the initiative.
  • Provide clear evidence of a multidisciplinary approach, with all relevant parties fully engaging in the work, and how this has led to improved safety.
  • Demonstrate how the initiative built community capability and shared responsibility for safety and wellbeing

To find out more

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Awards entry enquiries: Delegate Sales Team
Judging and event management: Awards Support