Have you or your team made significant positive changes to the emotional wellbeing of people with diabetes and/or their families and carers?
This category recognises initiatives that deliver emotional wellbeing support for children, young people, emerging adults and adults, with diabetes of all ages and/or their families and carers. However, it can also include initiatives that improve quality of life, such as making clinics more welcoming or accessible, or providing services outside the clinic, such as support for health choirs or sporting activity.
Initiatives are not limited to people with ‘diagnosable/ classifiable’ psychological problems and can include (but are not limited to):
- Overall life coping skills
- Eating disorders
- Helping people live with diabetes, alongside other conditions
- Any illness that requires long-term condition support, which might also include people with diabetes.
- Improvements in quality of life
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
