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Overview

The Best Practice Awards reward excellence and showcase exemplary rheumatology services by promoting innovation and best practice across every aspect of rheumatology treatment.

Entries for the 2020 Best Practice Awards are now open.

It's your chance to showcase your team’s innovative practice.

New for 2020, we're partnering with Versus Arthritis to celebrate an innovative or particularly successful scheme involving patients in their local service improvement.

Award winners will be announced to the profession at Annual Conference 2020 during the Jewels in the Crown session. The final shortlist of 10 units will be asked to produce a poster showcasing their work.

Winners will be asked to deliver a short presentation on their work during the Best Practice session, supporting the distribution and adoption of their practice.

Entry criteria

Please provide evidence that the changes the submitting team have implemented in their practice, have had positive impact, are clinically and cost effective, and could be implemented by other providers. This could be related to any of the following:

Audit against national guidance (BSR, NICE) resulting in improved outcomes in quality and performance
Implementation of new evidence-based service models or clinical re-design
Development of new service pathways across secondary and primary care
Streamlining systems and processes to achieve the same outcomes using fewer resources
Novel use of NHS data to understand how services are delivered and how outcomes could be improved
Medicines optimisation, particularly related to high-cost drugs
Integration of age-appropriate care
Coordinated provision of Specialised Services including network development
Championing patient involvement
Introduction of measures to capture the impact of innovative service offers, such as social prescribing and digital patient support tools, to develop the evidence base for wider adoption of best practice

Timelines

Applications close: 27 September 2019

Initial shortlisting: 1–25 October 2019

Site visits: November and December 2019

NB: you will be asked during the application process to provide three potential dates for a site visit during these months, so please factor these into the planning of your application

Final shortlisting: January 2020

Announcement: April 2020 at Annual Conference in Glasgow

Award application guidelines

Read the guidelines

Download the application form

Application form

Apply for the awards

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2018 winners

Eastern Network for Rare Autoimmune Disease (ENRAD) Videoconferencing MDT
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
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Paediatric MSK triage in the community
Pennine MSK Partnership
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Establishing an Associate Rheumatology Nurse Specialist Training Post
Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow
Find out more

Highly commended for clinical delivery:

Early arthritis service is cost-effective, improves outcomes and reduces biologic use
Luton and Dunstable University Hospital

Find out more
Coventry Fast track GCA pathway with walk-in Ultrasound
University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire
Find out more

Shortlisted sites:

BioSNiP: Biosimilars switching at Northwick Park
Northwick Park Hospital Harrow
Find out more
Young people’s care is everyone’s business: Integrating children’s and adult rheumatology services in Sheffield to provide seamless, developmentally appropriate rheumatology care
Sheffield Children’s Hospital and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
Find out more
Improving timely access to rheumatology services by facilitation of pre-referral dialogue
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Find out more
Building cost-effective and sustainable practice through collaboration between patients and care providers: the Leeds Specialist Spondyloarthritis Service experience
Leeds Specialist Spondyloarthritis Service
Find out more
Creation of a multidisciplinary early inflammatory arthritis service
Hammersmith Hospital
Find out more

Best Practice Awards

The Best Practice Awards reward excellence and showcase exemplary rheumatology services by promoting innovation and best practice across every aspect of rheumatology treatment.

Entries for the 2020 Best Practice Awards are now open.

It's your chance to showcase your team’s innovative practice.

New for 2020, we're partnering with Versus Arthritis to celebrate an innovative or particularly successful scheme involving patients in their local service improvement.

Award winners will be announced to the profession at Annual Conference 2020 during the Jewels in the Crown session. The final shortlist of 10 units will be asked to produce a poster showcasing their work.

Winners will be asked to deliver a short presentation on their work during the Best Practice session, supporting the distribution and adoption of their practice.

Please provide evidence that the changes the submitting team have implemented in their practice, have had positive impact, are clinically and cost effective, and could be implemented by other providers. This could be related to any of the following:

Audit against national guidance (BSR, NICE) resulting in improved outcomes in quality and performance

Implementation of new evidence-based service models or clinical re-design

Development of new service pathways across secondary and primary care

Streamlining systems and processes to achieve the same outcomes using fewer resources

Novel use of NHS data to understand how services are delivered and how outcomes could be improved

Medicines optimisation, particularly related to high-cost drugs

Integration of age-appropriate care

Coordinated provision of Specialised Services including network development

Championing patient involvement

Introduction of measures to capture the impact of innovative service offers, such as social prescribing and digital patient support tools, to develop the evidence base for wider adoption of best practice

Applications close: 27 September 2019

Initial shortlisting: 1–25 October 2019

Site visits: November and December 2019

NB: you will be asked during the application process to provide three potential dates for a site visit during these months, so please factor these into the planning of your application

Final shortlisting: January 2020

Announcement: April 2020 at Annual Conference in Glasgow

Award application guidelines

Download the application form

Apply for the awards

Eastern Network for Rare Autoimmune Disease (ENRAD) Videoconferencing MDT Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust Find out more

Paediatric MSK triage in the community Pennine MSK Partnership Find out more

Establishing an Associate Rheumatology Nurse Specialist Training Post Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow Find out more

Highly commended for clinical delivery:

Early arthritis service is cost-effective, improves outcomes and reduces biologic use Luton and Dunstable University Hospital

Coventry Fast track GCA pathway with walk-in Ultrasound University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire Find out more

Shortlisted sites:

BioSNiP: Biosimilars switching at Northwick Park Northwick Park Hospital Harrow Find out more

Young people’s care is everyone’s business: Integrating children’s and adult rheumatology services in Sheffield to provide seamless, developmentally appropriate rheumatology care Sheffield Children’s Hospital and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Find out more

Improving timely access to rheumatology services by facilitation of pre-referral dialogue Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Find out more

Building cost-effective and sustainable practice through collaboration between patients and care providers: the Leeds Specialist Spondyloarthritis Service experience Leeds Specialist Spondyloarthritis Service Find out more

Creation of a multidisciplinary early inflammatory arthritis service Hammersmith Hospital Find out more

Eastern Network for Rare Autoimmune Disease (ENRAD) Videoconferencing MDT
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Find out more

Paediatric MSK triage in the community
Pennine MSK Partnership
Find out more

Establishing an Associate Rheumatology Nurse Specialist Training Post
Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow
Find out more

Early arthritis service is cost-effective, improves outcomes and reduces biologic use
Luton and Dunstable University Hospital

Coventry Fast track GCA pathway with walk-in Ultrasound
University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire
Find out more

BioSNiP: Biosimilars switching at Northwick Park
Northwick Park Hospital Harrow
Find out more

Young people’s care is everyone’s business: Integrating children’s and adult rheumatology services in Sheffield to provide seamless, developmentally appropriate rheumatology care
Sheffield Children’s Hospital and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
Find out more

Improving timely access to rheumatology services by facilitation of pre-referral dialogue
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Find out more

Building cost-effective and sustainable practice through collaboration between patients and care providers: the Leeds Specialist Spondyloarthritis Service experience
Leeds Specialist Spondyloarthritis Service
Find out more

Creation of a multidisciplinary early inflammatory arthritis service
Hammersmith Hospital
Find out more