What unites all those who work in health and care?
Are we doing enough to support joint working in health and social care? Our competition asked for the three questions that will get people working together better, right from the start.
Our winners
We are thrilled that we had such a high calibre of responses to this competition, every one of the shortlisted entries was brilliant and it was a very difficult task to select overall winners.
Congratulations to our individual winner, Kelly Henderson and our team winners Claire Speer, Larry Koyama, Nicky Fowler and Nina White.
Watch the discussion between shortlisted entrants and judges at the awards event
Catch up on the whole event below, and the reflections from judges David Brindle and Selan Lee in the videos below.
Watch the winners and shortlisted entries explore the reasons for their question on their individual pages, or view the complete playlist on our YouTube channel.
Watch the whole event.
Listen to reflections from judges David Brindle and Selan Lee
Why three questions?
Health and social care employ millions of people. More than 1 in 10 of all British workers. These people are spread across thousands of organisations, in hundreds of different types of roles, in dozens of different clinical and non-clinical professions.
The future of health and care is in people working more closely together. Why? Because such collaboration will enable longer, healthier lives for people – patients, service users and populations. But also because there is a shared purpose that runs through everyone who chooses to work in health and care, an intrinsic motivation that makes health and care such an amazing place to work.
Are we doing enough to support this joint working? And are we starting efforts to get people to work together way too late?
What if everyone started their career in health and care in a very different way to now? A short introductory interview – before the processes related to their specific job – with three questions to see if health and care was the right choice for them.
Same starting point
This is not about trying to solve the NHS’s workforce crisis. Nor is it about ripping up all existing recruitment processes for everyone from dentists to domiciliary care workers.
Rather, it is about everyone (and we do mean everyone) working in health and care starting from the same point, and knowing that everyone else has done so too. That, regardless of the specific role anyone sits in at any one time, there is an understanding and appreciation that we are all in this together, working to a common goal.