The Langland Award for Excellence in Healthcare Partnerships

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This category recognises work undertaken in partnership/joint working with stakeholders, either in the UK, Europe or internationally that demonstrates how co-operation has improved mutual understanding and trust, and has delivered improvements in standards of healthcare.

Healthcare providers, patient associations, charities, non-governmental organisations and pharmaceutical companies share a common agenda to improve patient care outcomes through high-quality, cost-effective treatment and management.

Projects are invited that demonstrate joint development and implementation of patient-centred projects together with shared commitment to successful delivery.

Judges are looking for clarity of the specific roles of each partner, evidence of a true dialogue, joint objectives, learning and outcomes - tangible benefits to both patients and carers that ultimately save, or have a major impact on, patients’ lives. Programmes should demonstrate a real ‘win-win’ for all partners involved and clearly demonstrate how outcomes have been delivered over the time period.

Work conducted during the three-year period between January 2019 and December 2021 will be eligible. If the submission has been entered previously, the current entry must provide benchmarks to clearly demonstrate how the programme was evaluated and how it has developed over time.

Remember: This category does NOT need to be anonymised.

Don’t forget:

- provide a copy of any previous submission for this work

- Consider which organisations the submission is being entered on behalf of, a true partnership ethos will ideally be reflected right the way through from conception to outcomes

JUDGING CRITERIA AND ENTRY FORMAT:

Entry Title

Please give a simple title for your entry of no more than ten words

Executive Summary – 200 words. 0 (zero) marks

This will be used if entry is selected as a finalist.

Main entry

• The word/character limit for each criterion will be outlined via the online entry system.

1. Budget Band Information, as below:

Band A under £10,000

Band B £10,001-£25,000

Band C £25,001-£50,000

Band D £50,001-£100,000

Band E £100,001-£200,000

Band F over £200,001.

If your client has declined to allow this, you must state this within your submission.

• Failure to provide the budget band seriously impacts the judge’s ability to assess the entry against other entries and may result in the entry being disqualified
• The budget band provides important context for judging the innovation, delivery and impact of a piece of work.
• Impressive work is not always dependent on budget size, so there is no right or wrong budget.

2. Situation Analysis and Benchmarking – 15 marks

• In this section you should show the judges how well you understood the situation at the start of the project
• Use this situation to clearly lay out benchmark data that you will refer to in your measurement of effectiveness later
• Show the judges the best information, data and insights you have about uptake of health interventions, current practice, defining/segmenting audiences, identifying educational or information needs, which channels will best reach the audience, competitive environment, creative landscape before the start of your work
• To note, this category is focused on projects delivered via partnerships that have formed around common goals – the emphasis should not be on any one party’s drivers and needs but on those identified by the partners. Any contextual information that explains the partnership formation is important to the judging process, so make it clear in this section how the project came about – where did the idea come from, at what point in the planning did the partnership start, and who were the partner organisations involved?

3. Objectives – 15 marks

• Describe the objectives for the project or programme and how these will be measured

4. Strategy – 15 marks

• Please outline what your strategy was and why
• Refer to the data and insight in the situation analysis section
• Explain why this was the right strategy and any points to emphasise bold or innovative strategy selection
• Explain how you went about deciding on a partner/partners and be really clear about describing the partnership.

5. Implementation – 15 marks

• Please describe how the project or programme was implemented
• Please briefly outline why these specific tactics were selected
• For a programme this should include describing what tactics were deployed to implement the strategy
• For a meeting or stand-alone event this should describe how the meeting or event was delivered
• Be clear on roles and responsibilities within the partnership – who did what and how was it decided? How was the partnership governance managed overall?

6. Effectiveness: Outcomes vs Objectives – 20 marks

• Show clearly how the programme or project delivered against the stated shared objectives
• Help the judges to understand how the effectiveness was measured so they can judge the strength of the evaluation
• Include comments from third party stakeholders in this section but ONLY if they clearly help to demonstrate the impact of the work and were a planned part of the measurement approach

Supporting Materials

Please remember that the first round of scoring is based only on the content of the two-page entry form. No supporting material is viewed at this stage.

Please only send information that helps the judges to see how you researched, planned, implemented and measured the programme within each specific category, e.g.:

• Information illustrating how the strategy was brought to life is helpful but we don’t need a copy of every item
• Information supporting the nature of the partnership dynamic (including funding, governance, roles & responsibilities between partner organisations, etc) is important for this category, along with planning, evaluation and measurement back-up
• ESSENTIAL: a summary sheet must be supplied detailing each piece of supporting material and clearly identifying where evidence can be found to support claims in the entry
• PLUS: An approved visual image or video that supports the entry for use in print, results pages online and in the AV.