About the award
Has your work directly contributed to a positive change to a health or care service that local people benefit from?
Are you proud of something you’ve achieved in the past year? For this year’s awards, we’ll be considering any project which has made life better for local people, that has been delivered individually, or in collaboration with other Healthwatch, or with other partners. The work should either have between undertaken between September 2023 and September 2024 or undertaken before that but the improvements it has led to have been implemented between these dates.
If so, we look forward to your entry for the Healthwatch Impact Awards.
Use this webform to submit your entry.
Important information
- Your entry must not be a piece of work for which you previously received a Healthwatch award.
- To be considered, your submission must be for work that demonstrates outcomes between Sept 2023 – Sept 2024, and that demonstrates achievements that are still benefiting people.
- You should submit one entry per Healthwatch. However, you can also submit a joint entry for a piece of work done in collaboration with other Healthwatch (inc ICS groupings). The same piece of work cannot be submitted twice, as a joint or individual entry. Maximum two entries in total.
- Successful entries must include details of the tangible change this work has created for local people between the dates specified. Your entry must demonstrate how your Healthwatch has improved health or care services. Remember that the first round of shortlisting will only involve scoring entries on Question 5, ‘How will people’s experiences of the service/s be better and why is that important?’ Entries that move past that stage will then be scored on all questions.
- The panel recognise that the work you are describing could have contributed to improvements in a range of ways: improving a service's design, delivery, or quality; involving people in co-creation; reducing risks to patients; improving public information and communication; increasing the priority given to an issue by helping the system reflect on its true impact on people's lives; influencing strategy, planning, decision-making or commissioning of services. However, for your entry to be successful it’s still essential that you consider the point above and describe more specifically why what you achieved will result in people’s experience of services being better and what that improvement will be.
- The work must have been delivered under the Healthwatch brand and must be funded through core or commissioned work.
- Healthwatch providers change, but often staff and volunteers transfer to the new provider. Let us know if this is your situation, and we will take this into consideration – we want to celebrate what your team has been able to achieve.
Download the award criteria and guidance
Your details
Awards submissions can only be entered by Healthwatch staff and volunteer teams. The awards are not open to external applicants. Please contact annualconference@healthwatch.co.uk if you have any queries relating to this.
