Welcome to HSJ Best Practice

The definitive best practice resource for improving care and efficiency

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HSJ Best Practice is a unique database of all the shortlisted and winning entries from carefully selected categories within the last three years of the HSJ Awards, HSJ Digital Awards and Patient Safety Awards. We update the database monthly with more than 50 case studies each time. The entries have been validated by our editorial team and uploaded in a searchable database.

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HSJ Best Practice is…

  • A powerful search tool to quickly find evidence-based best practice

  • The most frequently updated resource of its type

  • Informed investment decisions on procurement, technology and services

  • The place to learn from a wider best practice community working on similar challenges

 

Why our case studies are unique:

Why our case studies are unique: Each award goes through a rigorous judging process by impartial judges, who are chosen for their knowledge of and relevance to the award category. Every year we receive more than 3000 entries for our five awards programs. Approximately 900 of these are shortlisted via online judging. These shortlisted organisations then present their project to a panel of senior healthcare leaders. A sample of our judges from our previous awards:

    • Professor Stephen Powis National Medical Director, NHS England
    • Evonne Hunt Chief Nursing Officer, Medway FT
    • Lee Rickles CIO, Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
    • Mike Gill Chair, London Clinical Senate Council
    • Patrick Vernon Chair, Birmingham & Solihull ICS
    • Owen Williams CEO, Northern Care Alliance/NHS England
    • Daniel Elkeles Chief Executive, London Ambulance Service Trust
    • Sam Roberts Chief Executive, NICE
    • Dr Habib Naqvi Chief Executive, NHS Race and Health Observatory
    • Crystal Oldman Chief Executive, Queen’s Nursing Institute
    • Laura McGowan Chief Clinical Information Officer, Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
    • Dame Donna Kinnair Chair, Runnymede Trust
    • Siobhan Melia Chief Executive, Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
    • Alec Price-Forbes Chief Clinical Information Officer, NHS England
    • Professor Joanne Bosanquet MBE RN Chief Executive, Foundation of Nursing Studies
    • Nnenna Osuji Chief Executive, North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
    • Paul Atkinson Chief Clinical Information Officer, NHS Gloucestershire ICB
    • Salma Yasmeen Chief Executive, Sheffield Health and Social Care
    • Neil Carr Chief Executive, Midlands Partnership FT
    • Sir James Mackey Chief Executive, Newcastle Hospitals

What do key NHS leaders say?

“There are big risks to us if we don’t share best practice. We want a breath of fresh air, we want to change. There is absolutely a financial cost if we don’t search for best practice – we need this to take our projects to the board.”

Medical Director, Northumbria Healthcare

“With the HSJ Best Practice product you would have confidence that the outcomes have already been through a judging process and it was not just a self-elected case study. If I had to choose between the two I would choose the one with the most scrutiny.”

Quality, Innovation, Productivity & Prevention Director, Bridgewater Community Healthcare

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A summary of our awards per year:

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