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‘Excellence in Participation’Awards 2013/14Information and Guidance
Easy Read versionDecember 2013NHS England Publications Gateway Reference No. 00801
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Introduction
Award Rules
Types of Award
Judging
Deadlines
Information for completing your entry
03Introduction
In the guidance about Transforming Participation inHealth and Care, NHS Englandcommitted to developing an’ Excellence in Participation’awards scheme.
This is to help the public knowabout and understand the goodwork being done to get peopleinvolved in making health andcare services better.
The Awards will celebrate the patients, service users, carers and members of the public who support health and care by giving their time and energy.
There will be 9 awards in total to cover what was said in theTransforming Participation inHealth and Care guidance.
04The Awards will be for individuals, providers and commissioners.
In the future the Awards will getbigger to cover a wider range ofgroups.
People are thinking that theseawards will also give hope andencouragement to those that are involved so that they want to do their best work and get alot done.
This can then be celebrated andshared across England.
05What does Team mean?
“A team is any group of peopleworking together to completesomething they all think is important.”
Award Rules
1. People can suggest themselves or other people for an award.
Groups can also suggest themselves or another group foran award.
062. To be able to enter for an award your organisation’s main job has to be giving or commissioning health care thatis paid for by public money.
3. Any entries for an award canbe made by anyone. (This includes patients, service users,visitors, carers, volunteers, staff,the public and partners).
4. All organisation or team entries for an award must besupported by a patient, familymember, member of the publicor a voluntary organisation acting for these groups.
If your entry for a team is chosenas one of the possible winners ofan award, then the person whosuggested them can come to theaward ceremony.
07Two other patients, service users,carers or members of the publicwho were involved in the projectcan also come to the awards ceremony as part of your team.
5. The entry for the award has toshow examples of work done inthe last year from December2012 to December 2013. If you don’t show us any examples then we can’t judgethe entry.
6. Everyone who has been entered for the Awards has to bewilling to be involved in sharingand learning events after theawards.
7. There is a limit of one entryper team, per award. A new formshould be filled in for each awardwhich you / your team enter.
088. Each entry must be made onthe NHS England Excellence inParticipation Awards on-lineentry form. You have to fill in thewhole form.
For the Participant of the YearAward you can enter in differentways such as video, talking heador voice recording.
9. For the Participant of the YearAward a panel made up of patients, service users, carers,voluntary organisations and NHSEngland will choose a list of thebest entries. Then they willchoose a winner.
0910. For the Children and Young People’s Award the judges willjudge it in a different way. Apanel made up of children andyoung people and NHS Englandwill choose a list of the best entries. Then they will choose awinner.
11. Members of the NHS EnglandExcellence in ParticipationAwards team will give help topeople or organisations who findit hard to complete their entrieson-line.
For more details about thisplease call 0113 8250861Or email [email protected]
Entries that happen in this waywill be put on to the official NHSEngland Excellence in Participation Awards entry form.
1012. All the entries for the Awardsmust get to us by 9am on Monday 20th January 2014. Entries that get to us after thisdate will not be able to be included in the awards.
13.When you fill in your entryform do not use more wordsthan we have asked for in theword count.
14. Decisions made by the judging panels are final. Youcan’t argue with them.
15. People can ask for help andsupport with their entries. Someone can fill in the form foryou as long as you say on theform who did this.
1116. If you are chosen for the listof possible winners you will beinvited to the ceremony, soplease note this date in yourdiary.
This will take place on: 3rd March 2014 at the NHS Health and Care Innovation Expo 2014 in Manchester.
17. NHS England will pay reasonable travel expenses foryou coming to the ceremony ifyou are in the list of possiblewinners for the Participant of theYear Award.
12Award Categories Types of Awards
There are four different groups of awards in the NHS England Excellence inParticipation Awards.
Excellence inPublic Participation Awards
Excellence inIndividual Participation
Awards
Excellence in Participation toAchieve Insight and Feedback Awards
Excellence in Participation People’s Awards
1. Provider Award2. Commissioner Award
3. Provider Award4. Commissioner Award
5. Provider Award6. Commissioner Award
7. Children and Young People’s Award
8. Promoting Volunteering Award9. Participant of the Year Award
13Please note there is a limit of oneentry per team, per award.
You can put in an entry for morethan one award.
Excellence inPublic Participation awards
This award celebrates very goodwork done together by providersand communities. This includespatients, service users, carers andthe public.
Provider Award
You will need to show how yourideas and project works in partnership with people to makethings better.
14This award celebrates very goodwork done together by commissioners and communities.This includes patients, serviceusers, carers and the public.
Commissioner Award
You will need to show how yourideas and work gives people andcommunities control and allowsthem to affect decisions made bycommissioners.
Excellence inIndividual Participation Awards
This award celebrates very goodwork done together by providersand individual patients, serviceusers and carers.
Provider Award
15The award is looking for examples of good work and newideas in putting patients andservice users in charge of theirown health and care choices.
This award celebrates very goodwork done together by commissioners and individualpatients, service users and carers.
Commissioner Award
You will need to show how thiswork involves patients , serviceusers and /or carers in decisionsabout their own care.
The award is looking for examples of good work and newideas to show commissioning has been improved to help patients and service users be incharge of their own health andcare choices.
This award is looking for really goodexamples of new ideas and waysof collecting feedback and viewsfrom patients, services users andcarers and then using the feedbackto make the commissioning ofservices better.
16Excellence in Participation toAchieve Insight and Feedback Awards
This award is looking for really goodexamples of new ideas and waysof collecting feedback and viewsfrom patients, services users andcarers and then using the feedbackto make services better.
Provider Award
Commissioner Award
Excellence inParticipation People’s Awards
This award is celebrating the verygood work done by young people and children who havebeen involved.
Children and Young People’s Award
17The award is looking for good examples of new ideas and waysof working together with youngpeople. These should show waysthat young people have been involved in decisions or makingservices or experiences better.
This award is celebrating thevery good work done to supportmore volunteering in health andcare.
Promoting VolunteeringAward
The award is looking for good examples of new ideas and ways of working together with patients, service users, carers, the public and other organisationsto help people be involved in volunteering.
This award is given by both theNational Association of VoluntaryService Managers, The King’sFund and NHS England.
18This award is for an individual patient, service user, carer ormember of the public who hassupported publicly funded healthand care.
Participant of the Year
This could be by offering one toone support to people to helpthem manage their own care.
Or it could be by being involvedin different projects to changeand make better NHS health andcare for all patients, service users,carers and the wider community.
19Judging Who will judge the awards?
Awards 1- 6
These awards will be looked atby a panel of three people whowill choose a list of the best entries.
This panel will be made up of anNHS England expert, a patient, aservice user, carer or voluntarysector person and an NHS England Values Champion.
The top three entries that get the best scores from the panelwill then be judged by a topjudging panel who will decidethe winner.
Award 7
This will be judged by the newNHS England Children andYoung People’s Panel.
20Award 8
This will be judged by peoplefrom NHS England and The National Association of VoluntaryService Managers.
Award 9
This will be judged by a panelmade up of NHS England areaexperts, patients, service users,families, carers and voluntary organisations who are workingfor them.
Final Judging Panel (Awards 1- 6)
• Voluntary Sector Strategic Partners
• NHS England professionals
• The NHS England Equalities Team
• A patient, service user, carer or someone from the public
21Shortlisting Panels (A group that chooses a list ofbest entries)
For each award there will be:
• A patient, service user, carer or someone from the public
• An expert in the subject from NHS England
• NHS England Values Champion
If a panel can’t decide between 2 winners then NHS Englandwill make the final decision.
The deadline for all entries forthe Awards is: 9am on Monday 20th January 2014(Late entries will not be accepted)
22Information about how to complete entries for the Awards
Please complete the right entryform by following the link on thewebsite. Before completing theonline form please read the sections below that are important to your entry.
For awards 1-8 please read Sections 1 and 3
For award 9 please read Sections 1 and 2
Section 1
On the web form please givebasic details about your projectand also your contact details.
23In this section you will have toprovide the names of two referees. One should be a patient, service user, carer or member of the community whowas involved in your project.
The other referee should be aboss or manager from your organisation or from an organisation involved in yourwork.
For all awards you will need toshow how your project helps tomeet the NHS values which arewritten in the NHS Constitution.
You can see these values at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-nhs-constitution-for-england
24Section 2 - Participant of the Year Award only
On the web form please tell uswhat you or the person you arenominating did and how it improved things for patients. You must not use more than 750 words.
Please read through the next few pages, which show how the judges will think about your entry.
People Centred
Please describe how people havebeen involved in the design andideas and / or the work done onyour project.
25Patient Experience
How has the patient or serviceuser experience got better? How do you know it got better?
Innovation
What makes what you have donedifferent or new? Could this wayof working be shared with othersand learnt easily so other peoplecould do it?
Building Partnerships
Describe how you worked withothers and worked together well.
Diversity and Health Inequalities
How has this project helpedto involve a wide mixture of different types of people (diversity)? How has it made inequality less?
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Please keep to the point andmake sure you do not use morethan the allowed amount ofwords for each question. Writedown at the end how manywords you used using wordcount.
Please use clear words and nojargon.
Section 3 - Organisational Awards only
On the web form please give usas much information as you canfor each question.
27If you use any NHS abbreviations(using letters to shorten a name)then please explain what youmean.
Please read through the next few pages, which show how the judges will think about your entry.
People Centred
Please describe how people havebeen involved in the design andideas and/or the work done onyour project.
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Innovation
What makes what you have donedifferent or new? Could this wayof working be shared with othersand learned easily so other coulddo it?
Building Partnerships
Describe how you worked withothers and worked together well.
Patient Experience
How has the patient or serviceuser experience got better? Howdo you know it got better?
29Diversity and Health Inequalities
How has this project helped to involve a wide mixture of different types of people (diversity)? How has it made less inequality?
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