Patient Safety in Paediatrics

Health and wellbeing in the early years of life has an impact on health in adulthood so the delivery of quality care is crucial through birth to the teenage years. Healthcare professionals working with children act as advocates for their patients and become trusted carers for children with long-term conditions, seeing them grow up, learn to take responsibility for their own health and move on to adult services. This award will be given to a project that has ensured the care it delivers is child- and family-centred and has improved the care of babies, children and teenagers.

Specific entry criteria

Entries will be judged against the following criteria:

• Innovation - the quality and originality of the idea;
• Results - the impact and outcomes of the initiative;
• Sustainability - the long-lasting potential of the initiative;
• Dissemination - how the learning from the initiative has been spread to other parts of the organisation and beyond.