This award recognises outstanding team achievements and contributions that will help us better understand, prevent, diagnose or treat cancer and improve patient experience and outcomes.
Teamwork plays a critical and growing role in high-quality cancer care. This award will be given to an outstanding team that has made a significant contribution to patient care, treatment or cancer management.
It may be a multidisciplinary team, a group of healthcare professionals or a management team that has introduced significant advances in clinical practice, patient support (including links to social care), service quality or efficiency.
This award will be given to a team that demonstrates initiatives in the following areas:
- Putting patients at the heart of decision-making
- Preventing re-admissions
- Ensuring the right care in the right place
- Significant improvements in patients’ experiences
- Access to services seven days a week.
Judging criteria:
| Objectives | Are the objectives clearly explained and appropriate to the initiative? | 0-5 points |
| Planning & implementation | How effective were the methods used to deliver the initiative? How well were they implemented? | 0-10 points |
| Impact & results | How successful was the initiative? How well did it meet its objectives? | 0-10 points |
| Patient experience | How patient experience was measured and how well was the initiative received by patients? | 0-20 points |
| Audit & evaluation | Was the initiative subject to formal evaluation and were the measures of success appropriate? What evidence-based data exists to support the success of the programme? | 0-20 points |
| Future benefits | What impact does the project potentially have in the future? | 0-10 points |
| Sustainability | How sustainable was the initiative? What level of impact has the project had (relative to available budget/resources) within its intended environment? | 0-15 points |
| Replication | How easily could the initiative be adapted to other health authorities? | 0-10 points |
