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In response to popular demand, the Independent Healthcare Awards
2008 featured 13 categories of award, each still recognising
excellence across the full range of independent health and social
care delivery. The categories remain ‘cross-cutting’
in nature in order to encourage participation from across this
exciting and diverse sector.
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Categories
The award categories
for selection:
Recruitment
Management Excellence Award
Sponsored by HCL
Medical Practice Award
Sponsored by Spire Healthcare
Public Private Partnership Award
Sponsored by Healthcare Commission.
Healthcare Funding Product Development Award
Sponsored by AIG
Hotel Services Award
Sponsored by Caring Homes
Nursing Practice Award
Sponsored by BMI Healthcare
Entrepreneurial Achievement Award
Sponsored by European Care Group |
Management
Excellence Award
Sponsored by Lawrence Graham
Innovation Award
Sponsored by Partnerships in Care
Healthcare Outcomes
Award
Sponsored by HCA International
Outstanding Contribution
Award
Sponsored by Alliance Medical
Independent Healthcare
Ambassador Award
Sponsored by Brunswick LLP
Excellence in Training
Award
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Criteria
The award criteria for selection
are:
Entrepreneurial
achievement:
This award will be presented
to the individual who demonstrates continuing commitment to
furthering his or her independent healthcare business, and
whose entrepreneurship results in demonstrable growth of his
or her organisation.
Healthcare funding product development:
The role of private medical insurance and healthcare
funding products is constantly subject to change, as the political
climate in healthcare alters. This category is open to individuals
or teams demonstrating outstanding innovation in the field
of private medical insurance or independent healthcare funding
more generally. Entries should provide evidence of market
success.
Healthcare outcomes:
No other industry sector has to be as results driven as healthcare.
This category is open to those units or organisations that
can demonstrate clear evidence of genuine improvements in
healthcare outcomes – either in a single speciality
or across the clinical range.
Hotel services:
This award recognises and rewards those elements of health
and care provision that often fall under the radar. Nominations
are welcome, for example, on behalf of outstanding achievements
in food preparation and provision, the prevention and management
of hospital acquired infection, the creation of innovative
and excellent social/community environments for patients/residents
or other examples demonstrating excellence in the wider field
of hotel services.
Innovation:
This award recognises and rewards a significant and cutting-edge
advance in independent healthcare provision – be it
medical, financial, nursing or organisational. Nominees should
provide evidence of outcomes to support their nomination.
The award is open to individuals, teams or whole units.
Management Excellence:
This award will identify the manager or executive that has
made the single most effective contribution towards the success
of a team, unit or company in the preceding 12 months. It
will be open to nominations covering the full range of management
activities, from clinical services to support services to
general management. Nominees should provide examples of where
their influence has positively impacted in delivery.
Medical practice:
This award will recognise and reward outstanding examples
of medical practice – either clinical or practice management.
It will be awarded to a person, team or unit whose work has
made a demonstrable contribution to improving patient treatment
and care.
Nursing practice:
As with the medical practice award, this category will primarily
be open to examples of where outstanding nursing practice
models have contributed to improving patient care. Again,
this may be in the clinical, care or practice management fields.
Outstanding contribution:
This special award will be presented to the individual whom the judges believe has made a long-term – often life-long – outstanding contribution to the independent healthcare sector. Nominations are welcomed from across the range of personnel and across the wide-ranging independent healthcare sector.Winner in 2007: Peter Farrier, Former CEO, Partnerships in Care
Public Private Partnership:
This category acknowledges the role played by the independent
sector in delivering healthcare services in tandem with the
statutory sector. The award will be presented to that project
which the judges believe to be the best example of public-private
sector co-operation and performance. Nominees should demonstrate
where projects have positively impacted upon patient/customer
care.
Excellence in Training:
This award seeks to reward those training managers, departments
and organisations that can demonstrate how their approaches
to training and the training programmes they provide have
improved working practices in their organisations. In addition,
the judges will look for examples where training programmes
have provided tangible benefits either to staff, their business
or the independent sector in general.
Independent Healthcare Ambassador
This category seeks to highlight the role of individuals
as ambassadors for independent health and social care over
the preceding 12 months – on a micro or macro, local
or national level. Examples might include those whose representation
of the sector with Government has resulted in greater partnership
between the independent and statutory sectors; those whose
influence may positively impact upon the regulatory agenda;
those whose negotiating skills with local government has resulted
in across the board fee increases in care homes
Recruitment Management Excellence:
This award seeks to reward those companies demonstrating
excellence in recruitment practice and policy. Companies entering
are asked to demonstrate where recruitment practice results
in added value to their business, giving special consideration
to innovative approaches to practice.
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Organisations
and individuals can register their interest in taking places
at the next Independent Healthcare Awards NOW
by calling the Awards team on 020 7923 5392
or email awards@laingbuisson.co.uk |
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