Categories 2024

Entries will be reviewed against the following criteria

• Ambition - The challenge and context within which your project, person or organisation is set alongside your goals and targets whether quantitative or qualitative. 
• Outcome - The benefits realised from the point of view of patients, organisation, leadership, value creation, efficiencies, and cost.
• Spread - The dissemination of your success in terms of how your work has been picked up and replicated elsewhere.
• Value - The creation of value from the point of view of patient satisfaction and experience, reduction in bureaucracy, time saved for staff at any level.
• Involvement - The stakeholders buy-in and contribution toward the project initiatives and outcomes. How have the relevant staff, patients and partnerships worked together to realise the success?

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Clinical and Specialist

• Deteriorating patients and rapid response initiative of the year
• Improving care for children and young people initiative of the year
• Improving care for older people initiative of the year
• Maternity and midwifery initiative of the year
• Mental health safety improvement award
• Learning disabilities initiative of the year 
• Improving health outcomes for minority ethnic communities
• Improving medicines safety award

Enacting organisation-wide change

• Developing a positive safety culture award
• Patient safety education and training award
• Early-stage patient safety innovation of the year
• Patient safety pilot project of the year
• Patient safety team of the year
• Quality improvement initiative of the year
• Staff wellbeing initiative of the year
• *NEW CATEGORY* Seni Lewis Award

Service / system innovation

• Harnessing a human factors approach to improve patient safety award
• Patient involvement in safety award
• Virtual or remote care initiative of the year
• Safety improvement through technology award
• Community care initiative of the year
• Primary care initiative of the year
• Patient safety in elective recovery award
• Urgent and emergency care safety initiative of the year
• Best use of integrated care and partnership working in patient safety award