Have you or your team made changes to the delivery of diabetes care to reduce the variation of care and outcomes, particularly as it relates to socioeconomic, cultural or racial determinants?
This category recognises initiatives for people with diabetes and their families and/or carers that illustrate one or more of the eight urgent actions required to tackle health inequalities. These have been identified by the NHS national advisory group of leaders from within and beyond the NHS:
- Protect the most vulnerable from COVID-19
- Restore NHS services inclusively
- Develop digitally enabled care pathways in ways which increase inclusion
- Accelerate preventative programmes which proactively engage those at risk of poor health outcomes
- Particularly support those who suffer mental ill-health
- Strengthen leadership and accountability
- Ensure datasets are complete and timely
- Collaborate locally in planning and delivering action.
2024 Essential Judging Criteria and Points The judges will be focusing on the following areas when scoring your entry. Write your entry accordingly | Score | Maximum number of words |
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Summary: Provide background & brief overview of the initiative | NA | 100 |
Innovation/Novel approach to an existing problem:
| 15 | 500 |
Equality, Diversity and Variation: Describe how you have identified and successfully addressed issues related to equality and diversity. How have your interventions led to a reduction in variation focusing on: access, need, appropriateness, and outcomes/experience | 20 | 500 |
Impact to Patient Care Provide detail on how your project impacted on patient care | 25 | 600 |
Results: Provide a minimum of six months of results and illustrate how you measured your success vs objectives along with:
| 25 | 600 |
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 to drive further improvement | 20 | 500 |
Dissemination and sustainability: Define the reach of the project i.e. was it done in your hospital/organisation or a wider influence and reach? Describe the beneficial elements in terms of improved patient experience that you will take forward and develop further. How easy would it be for another service to directly implement this initiative? | 15 | 375 |