Dermatology Digital and Technology Solutions for the Treatment of Skin Conditions

Have you created digital and technology solutions for the treatment of skin conditions?

These awards recognise innovative, well-designed and credible healthcare digital and technology solutions for the treatment of skin conditions and delivered via ANY digital or technology channel or channels, online or offline.

Who can enter?

We welcome entries from healthcare professionals, in-house teams, agencies and consultancies. Digital and technology solutions entered should be UK or Ireland based even if they are used globally, and for work conducted from January 2021 – March 2022.

Where applicable you must state which digital provider you worked with on the assignment and what the budget was that was allocated to this work by band. Failure to specify a budget band may lead to disqualification of your entry by the judges. If you are unable to provide budget band information, please state the reason in your submission.

Band A below £10,000

Band B £10,001-£25,000

Band C £25,001-£50,000

Band D £50,001-£150,000

Band E over £150,000

Please ensure that any websites/digital media you refer to in your entry can be accessed by our panel of judges, therefore include any passwords or specific links when submitting your entry and keep links open until the end of the judging day (26th May 2022).

Judging Criteria *The judges will be focusing on the following area when scoring your entry. Write your entry accordingly:*	Maximum score available	No of words per criteria
Summary: Provide background & brief overview of the initiative.	5	100
Innovation: Creativity or innovation in content, presentation/use of the medium and usability for service user.	20	150
Planning: Describe the identified need for the initiative. Organisation, stakeholders, planned time frames and milestones. Evidence of clear, specific goals and outcome measures including reasoning behind these. How did you involve service us	10	150
Methods: Putting plans into action. What did you do? Describe how the initiative was implemented and outline the procedures and tools you used to measure outcomes.	10	100
Safety considerations: Risk assessment, clinical governance, ethics and any other safety considerations and how these were successfully addressed.	5	100
Effectiveness: Demonstrate effectiveness to illustrate efficiency improvement(s), how the initiative brought about change to support improved outcomes and what was the impact for people with skin conditions.	15	150
User feedback: Evidence of support from a range of interested stakeholders, e.g. healthcare professionals and/or service users. Please include statements. Describe how feedback was collected and bias was minimised. Provide examples of service user feedback and explain how this is used.	10	100
Cost efficiency and economic viability: Evidence of, and maximising quality health outcomes and minimising NHS costs, getting better value from the NHS budget.	10	100
Sustainability and evidence for sharing practice and dissemination: Describe how the project has been/will be disseminated.	15	150

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KEY DATES
Open for entry: November 2021
Entry Deadline:
11 March 2022
Judging day: 26 May 2022
Awards ceremony: 8 September 2022