Award Criteria 
General criteria for submissions
In addition to the category specific criteria, the judges will be looking for the following from submissions:
- + Innovation
- + Imagination and ambition
- + Evidence of a good clear strategy for the project or policy
- + Evidence of good management
- + Evidence the strategy was clearly communicated to staff and other stakeholders
- + Value for money
- + Supporting evidence that the project/policy has made a difference to the organisation
- + Evidence it has achieved or is well on the way to achieving what it set out to do
Waste
+ Reported % increase in recycling of waste, waste segregation, clinical waste, etc
+ Reported % reduction in overall waste reduction in supplies packaging, printing, etc
+ Reported % of financial savings made through reductions in waste
Innovation
+ Evidence an innovative system/product has been implemented to reduce carbon and costs
+ Reported % reduction of carbon and costs via the system/product
Public engagement
+ entries must demonstrate social impact within community/region/town or city
+ Entries must highlight clear evidence of impact citing future ambitions and proposed progress
Staff Engagement
+ Evidence of improvement in environmental awareness within organisation via staff engagement programmes or initiatives
+ Examples of behaviour change
+ Entry must demonstrate change in staff engagement and awareness via such programme
Supplier of the Year
+ Direct evidence your organisation has improved either carbon reduction/environmental awareness/financial outcomes of NHS Partner
+Entry must be able to cite a NHS partner of whom can support application
Infrastructure
+ Evidence design or construction of building has addressed environmental improvements such as carbon reduction, wellbeing and prevention
+ Entrant to demonstrate measurable evidence (survey, feedback, testimonials, statistics) of building design or construction creating improvements
Carbon
+ Reported reduction of more than 20% in carbon emissions from Estates based on 2015/16 base rate figures
+ Entry to cite how reduction achieved in past 12-18 months
Food
+ Entry must evidence locally/healthy sourced food for staff or patient menus
+ Entry to evidence health/health economic outcomes for organisation
Procurement
+ Entry to evidence how sustainability has been implemented via procurement
+ Reported % financial improvement via the project
Transport
+ Entry to demonstrate clear change in modalities of transport to organisation for staff and patients
+ Entry to report % improvement in carbon reduction
+ Entry to evidence improvement in patient and staff satisfaction
Energy
+ Reported % reduction in energy use via project
+ Reported % in financial savings via project
+ Use of innovation or behaviour change in entry
Clinical
+ Project must demonstrate clinical value in either financial savings, improved working or reduced carbon
+ Project must have had input from clinical colleagues
Reuse
+ Evidence an innovative system has been implemented to assist the reuse of materials
+ Reported % of financial savings made through reuse system