Digital Champion Award

The Hospice UK Awards celebrate the innovative work taking place in hospices and palliative care organisations across the UK, and the people involved with them

The Digital Champion Award recognises the work of an individual who has passionately promoted the use of technology or digital ways of working in a hospice or palliative care organisation.

The winner of this award is announced at the annual Hospice UK National Conference.

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About this award

This award celebrates individuals that have encouraged and supported others to use technology or digital tools and techniques to:

  • Identify or better understand and/or solve a problem (or be progressing towards solving a problem).
  • Improve quality or efficiency
  • Reduce barriers and improve access

The technology or digital tools and techniques they have used don’t need to be cutting edge, but how they were used may be innovative for your organisation. 

What the judges are looking for

We suggest you consider the following information when making your nomination:

What was the problem that you were trying to solve?

  • Why was technology/digital the right approach?
  • Why was this approach innovative for the organisation?
  • Did the Champion work independently or in collaboration with others?
  • How did the Champion engage other people in the use of technology or digital ways of working. This could be colleagues, service users, customers, donors or others.
  • If a particular technology or digital tool was used, was there a reason for choosing this instead of something else? 

What was the impact?

  • Who benefitted?
  • Was there a measurable benefit?

Applicability

  • Could the approach be applied by other parts of the organisation or other organisations?

General Criteria and Guidance

Read our submission criteria and general guidance before you submit an entry.

Entries for the 2024 Hospice UK Awards will open on 1 July 2024. 

Enter now

The deadline for submitting entries and nominations is 5pm on Monday 9 September 2024. 

The winners will be announced at our National Conference in Glasgow from 26-28 November 2024.

The Hospice UK Awards celebrate the innovative work taking place in hospices and palliative care organisations and the people involved with them

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Duncan Fleming, Mountbatten Hospice, was the winner of the 2023 Digital Champion Award at the Hospice UK National Conference

2023 winner

Duncan Fleming, Mountbatten Hospice

Duncan and the Mountbatten team collaborated on four pieces of work both internally and externally, with neighbouring hospices and others. This collaboration showed innovative thinking in multiple areas, and an eagerness to share the work, and learnings, more widely.

This included exciting thinking about using digital to improve patient experience and safety. Projects included the development of electronic prescriptions, a new patient record app, using VR headsets to reduce pain and stress in patients, as well as finding ways to join up access to patient records across the wider healthcare system.  Importantly, their work is helping to develop future IT professionals through a mentoring scheme for students.

The Panel added: “Duncan and the Mountbatten team are worthy winners of the Digital Champion Award. We were particularly impressed with their collaboration with neighbouring hospices to share IT services and develop future IT professionals through a mentoring scheme for students. Their commitment to sharing knowledge and learning more widely stood out as an opportunity to improve digital services across the hospice sector. Congratulations to Duncan and all the team at Mountbatten!”

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