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The Health and Social Care Awards exist to:

1. Highlight and celebrate innovation and excellence across health and social care;
2. Recognise and encourage working together across organisations and professions, with service users and local populations.

The Health and Social Care Awards have an established eight year history  and provide an unparalleled opportunity to highlight and celebrate innovation and excellence in frontline health and social care.

Throughout the NHS, social services, the voluntary, charity and independent sectors, there are people who are passionate about finding new ways of doing things to provide the best possible care to their local population…. and then continue to improve it.

People who deliver frontline care, people who lead teams and organisations, people who commission services, people who develop new technology….

These are people who recognise and utilise the expertise of patients, service users and carers; people who don’t let organisational and professional boundaries get in the way of providing the care and services needed by their local population.

The Health and Social Care Awards are run in partnership between the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and the Department of Health.

The range of categories for the 2009 Awards recognise the diverse ways in which excellent care can be achieved:

1. Mental Health Wellbeing
2. Leadership for Improvement
3. People's Award For Dignity in Care
4. Transforming Services
5. Improving Health and Reducing Inequalities
6. Patient Safety
7. Adopt, Adapt and Improve
8. Innovative Health and Social Care Technology
9. Success in Partnership Working
   
10. Excellence in Commissioning
11. NHS Live (awarded at National level only)
12. Low Carbon
13. Primary Care and Community Services Pathways Award
14. Innovative Acute Care

Each category has been reviewed and agreed by the Secretary of State for Health and the NHS Chief Executive to make sure they reflect the current priorities in social care and health.

How each Award Category is judged

Applications must comply with:

a)    The core criteria for all applications (outlined below)
b)    category-specific criteria

Core Criteria

All applications must demonstrate:

a)  Significant improvement through innovative ways of working
b)  Positive benefits for patients, service users, carers and staff
c)  Evidence of research and evaluation
d)  Potential for sustainability and spread of benefits
e)  A people-centred approach
f)  Leadership, team-working and co-operation
g)   Involvement of patients, service users and the public
h)  Value for money and ongoing affordability

Category-Specific Criteria

In addition to the Core Criteria, each application must comply with criteria specific to the Award category for which they are applying.  Please click on the above categories to see their criteria.

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