Notts primary care conference 2025. 12 March 2025. Building resilience through positive connections. Poster competition. Notts Primary Care initiative of the year. Resilient, motivated, connected.

Invitation for poster submissions 

We are excited to announce that we will be holding our second Notts Primary Care Conference on Wednesday 12 March 2025. This conference is free for all the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Primary Care workforce to attend.  
 
 
To build resilience through positive connections 
To be inspired and energised by innovations and new ways of working across Primary Care 
 
To celebrate our workforce, we are inviting submissions for posters that showcase innovations / new ways of working and wellbeing initiatives in the area. Awards will be presented at the conference and details of the award category are below. You can download a PDF of this submission guide here. 

Award Category 

Notts Primary Care Initiative of the Year  2025 

The ongoing pressures on Primary Care demands new ways of working, new skills and competencies, as well as new roles across teams and pathways – for both clinical and non-clinical teams. 
 
Initiatives could demonstrate: 
 
New ways of working 
Approaches to improving processes and systems which benefit staff and patients 
Projects which demonstrate how you are addressing population health needs in your practice or Primary Care Network 
How you have supported staff wellbeing or equity, diversity, and inclusion issues 
 
This award is about recognising innovations in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Primary Care. Judges will be looking for new approaches to developing your staff. They want to see initiatives that develop not just the existing workforce and its talents but look for new ways to bring people into Primary Care. 
Submissions can be made by any individual, team, and organisation (clinical and non-clinical) working in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Primary Care. Multiple entries from the same organisation are permitted. 
 
All posters will be on display at the conference for colleagues to view. They will also be made available online via the NATH website. 
 
Please note: The submission with the highest scoring poster will be invited to present their poster at the conference. Please make it clear in your submission if you do not wish to present your poster during the conference. 

Scoring criteria 

Posters will be marked against the following five criteria by a panel of judges. Judges will not judge on posters from their own areas to remove any bias. 
Criteria 
Think about: 
Innovation 
What was the problem to overcome? 
How was this a new initiative? 
Why was this transformative? 
Collaboration 
Who did you work with? 
How did you work together? 
Why did collaborating lead to success? 
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) 
How did the initiative consider and evidence equity? 
How did the initiative consider and evidence diversity? 
How did the initiative consider and evidence inclusivity? 
Impact 
What was the outcome? 
What difference did this make to staff? 
Why was this important? 
Poster design 
Is the poster visually appealing? 
Is the information clear and free of jargon and acronyms? 
Is the information presented in a logical layout? 

Poster requirements 

Please ensure your poster complies with the following requirements: 
 
Size: A3 
Orientation: Landscape 
Minimum font size: 11 
File format: PDF 
Includes a title and name of your organisation on the poster 
Does not include personal or sensitive information 
We recommend: 
 
Designing the poster to tell a story 
High colour contrast between text and background colour 
Inclusion of images or graphics 
Asking colleagues to proof-read before submission 

Key dates 

Deadline for poster submission is end of Monday 24 February 2025. 
No. 
Task 
Deadline 
1. 
Submit poster via online Poster Submission Form 
Monday 24 February 2025 
2. 
Posters scored by judging panel 
Friday 7 March 2025 
3. 
NATH to contact top scoring submission to present at the conference 
Monday 10 March 2025 
4. 
Top scoring submission to present poster at the conference (if happy to) 
Wednesday 12 March 2025 

How to upload your submission 

Once you have finalised your poster, reviewed it against the scoring criteria, and checked it complies with the poster requirements, please submit it online via our Poster Submissions Form. Alongside the poster, we also ask for: 
 
Organisation name 
Primary Care Network/s you work within 
Names of all the authors involved in creating the poster 
Email of a lead author who can be contacted on behalf of the submission 
Whether you are happy to present at the conference if your submission is a winning poster 
 
If you require any additional information, please contact a member of the NATH team via alliance.hub1@nhs.net. 
 
Thank you, good luck, and we look forward to receiving your posters! 
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