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2017 ESR HPMA Award

Have you implemented a project that’s involved your ESR this year?  Why not enter the ESR category of the 2017 HPMA Excellence Awards.

Award for best use of Your ESR

Initiatives that demonstrate how an organisation’s effective use of their Electronic Staff Record system is helping them to support their business objectives and deliver service improvements

Criteria

The organisation should be able to demonstrate clearly how they have met their business objectives or delivered service improvements thanks to more effective use of ESR. This might simply be by using existing functionality more effectively, or it might have involved implementing new functionality such as Self-Service or establishment control.

In particular, applicants should explain how they have:

• Clearly identified the business need or objective.
• Reviewed their use of ESR and identified how they could use it more effectively to meet the business need or objective.
• Ensured they were clear about their starting point – ie benchmarked their existing status, for the business area and/or ESR usage.
• Involved all relevant stakeholders in the project.
• Familiarised themselves in advance with the new functionality to ensure they took best possible advantage of it.
• Critically reviewed processes to reflect best practice use of ESR, rather than having to bend ESR to historic processes.
• Provided appropriate guidance on new functionality, processes etc for users.
• Measured improvements in the identified business area after implementation.
• Reviewed lessons learned and implementation tips for other trusts.
• Considered next steps for further optimising their use of ESR to support business objectives.

Submission questions

Bearing in mind the above factors, please answer the following questions.

1. Set the scene for your submission, outlining any relevant background/context to the work (200 words or fewer).
2. Explain how and why the initiative came about. Outline the overarching business need and how you decided which aspects of ESR could help you to achieve it (500 words or fewer).
3. Describe what has happened in the organisation now the initiative has been delivered. What are the measurable achievements, expected benefits, and impact on your organisation and/or patient care of your project? The judges are looking for qualitative and/or quantitative statistics that demonstrate the impact (500 words or fewer).
4. What is the potential learning for other trusts from this project, and how best could this learning be shared (300 words or fewer)?

Applications are welcomed from all NHS organisations using ESR, regardless of whether they have entered (successfully or unsuccessfully) in previous years.

Entry deadline is 5pm on 20^th February 2017.

Visit the HPMA website for entry instructions.

Read last year’s winning ESR entry