The Patient Experience Network National Awards (PENNA) recognise best practice in patient experience across all areas of health and social care in the UK. The aim of the awards is to improve patient and staff experience by sharing and celebrating best practice. With over 20 categories in this year’s awards, there is an opportunity for a diverse range of teams to showcase their work.
In this webinar, we’ll discuss what makes a successful entry. Our panellists, consisting of judges and previous winners (from NHS trusts and industry), will discuss how to use the judging criteria to create an impressive case study from your work. The conversation will include top tips on how to ensure you demonstrate the impact of your work on patient and staff experience.
Introduction to the webinar – Hanan L’Estrange-Snowden
Introduction to PENNA – Ruth Evans MBE
Chris Graham – Judging criteria – Chris will review the judging criteria and how to use them to make your entry stand out.
Panellist TBA – Entry considerations – What sets entries apart from one another.
Panellist TBA – Creating a winning entry – Summary of their approach and how they evidenced their improvement work’s impact.
Panellist TBA – Creating a winning entry – Summary of their approach and how they promoted inclusivity.
Panel Discussion – Top tips on how to get your entry noticed.
Chair’s summary
Submissions for this year’s awards are now open and will close on Friday 1st July 2022.
Entering the PEN awards is about more than winning an award; it’s a chance to learn from peers and celebrate all the hard work that has gone into improving people’s experiences over the last year.
The awards will be hosted in-person at the University of Birmingham on Wednesday 28th September 2022. We’re looking forward to seeing you!
Ruth is the founder of PEN. She is delighted to see how the understanding of patient experience and experience in general, is developing and improving.
Ruth can be found on Twitter @PEN_NEWS.
Chris has been Picker’s CEO since 2017 and has been a judge for the PEN awards for a number of years. He enjoys reading innovative, impactful entries.
Chris can be found on Twitter @ChrisGrahamUK.
Hanan will be chairing the panel. Working at Picker, Hanan supports the charity’s partners and clients to better understand and improve people’s experiences of health and social care.
Kuldeep has been a former entrant, overall winner and a judge for the PEN awards over a number of years. He is proud to be part of the evolving NHS patient experience and co-production journey. He finds the award entries a delight to read and inspiration for new ideas.
Kuldeep can be found on Twitter @KuldeepNHS.
As well as a judge, Jean has been a winner or runner up in several categories of the PEN awards including Patient Experience NHS Manager of the Year. Jean loves hearing about new innovative ways of improving patient and staff experience, especially through these challenging times.
Jean is a member of the award-winning Patient Experience Team at Gloucestershire NHSFT and also manages a PALS team.
Jean can be found on Twitter @thejeantucker.
After working as a Dietitian across NHS Hospital Trusts, Nicola joined the commercial healthcare world. In her current role, she has responsibility for marketing the Nutricia Homeward service which provides support at home to over 30,000 tube-fed patients.
Implementing service developments which enhance patients’ experience is key and Nicola is passionate about bringing the patients’ perspective into all business decisions.
Nicola can be found on Twitter @wayne_nik.
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