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The Central Homecare Awards for Excellence in Homecare/Community Based Services
Sponsored by: Central Homecare
This award recognises the growing importance of healthcare services being delivered ever closer to the patient, often in their own home. “Patient centricity” is a key principle of health policy in many countries. The reshaping of services which have been traditionally delivered in secondary care has the potential to deliver high quality health outcomes, and an improved patient experience in an increasingly cost-contained healthcare environment.
Entries to this category should ideally demonstrate the rationale for delivering the services in the community or in the home, should show the outcome produced, and the impact from the patient’s as well as the professional’s perspective.
This category relates to work carried out between January and December 2011.
Judging criteria:
- Evidence of improved patient experience, quality of care and outcomes
- Reductions in unnecessary consultations and hospital visits
- Evidence of effective self care, health promotion and disease prevention
- Optimisation of the cost effectiveness of services to enable as many patients as possible to benefit from them
- Evidence of integration between healthcare workers
- Improved adherence, resulting in optimum outcomes and minimisation of medicines waste
- Evidence that the relevant support has beneficial outcomes for families and carers of patients
