This award will recognise a team or service that has delivered a transformational improvement to patients close to their homes using a collaborative and integrated approach across Primary Care and the range of health and social care providers.

As well as the core criteria, assessors will be looking for evidence of:

Leading Change Locally

• Evidence of shared understanding of the outcomes required for the specific population being served
• Evidence of local leadership from strategic commissioners, and clinicians involved in service transformation
• Services and care organised and managed for a known population
• Entrepreneurial practitioners who create and optimise opportunities to transform services through integration
• Demonstration of improved quality and productivity including cash releasing changes from other services
• Clear governance arrangements and accountability, for the population covered, between the range of providers involved and the commissioner

People shaping services

• How patient views, feedback and experience is used to support the development of the service
• Clinicians and patients in an 'expert to expert' relationship able to take new approaches in care
• Clear communication both with public and patients where services have changed or disinvestments are planned

Promoting healthy lives

• How the innovation delivers on improving health and wellbeing, addressing inequality and prevention as well as delivering excellent care

Continuously improving quality

• Systematic use of evidence based care and quality metrics, including patient safety, effectiveness and patient experience, to help drive continuous improvements in quality
• Clinical innovators and expert practitioners enabling increasingly complex care to be provided closer to home