Healthcare Infrastructure and Estates Project of the Year

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Healthcare Infrastructure and Estates Project of the Year
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The way NHS spaces are designed, maintained and used matters more than ever. Patients and staff rely on buildings that don’t just function, they must also adapt, evolve, and support new models of care delivery. At the same time, estates teams are balancing tight budgets, ageing buildings, energy pressures and ambitious sustainability goals. 

This category recognises infrastructure projects where private or not for profit partners have helped NHS organisations tackle these challenges head-on, creating smarter spaces, reducing environmental impact or transforming how care is experienced. Entries can range from ambitious new build facilities to innovative redesigns and adaptations of existing sites. 

Judges will look for solutions grounded in genuine collaboration and creativity, clearly demonstrating practical impact, cost effective use of resources, and meaningful benefits for patients, staff and the wider community.

Eligibility

  • This award is open to any private or not for profit business which works in partnership with an NHS organisation in the field of buildings, engineering, facilities or estates management. 
  • These can be single partnerships or joint working projects but must demonstrate evidence from the past two years up until the awards deadline date.

Ambition

The challenge and context within which your project, person or organisation is set alongside your goals and targets whether quantitative or qualitative, and how this aligns with national priorities. 

  • Describe the infrastructure or estates challenge the project addressed and all relevant partners. 
  • Set out the goals and targets agreed and how success was defined. 
  • Explain how the work aligns with NHS priorities, including the shift to community-based settings

Collaboration

The stakeholders’ involvement in co-designing and delivering the project. How have patients, staff at all levels, communities and other parties worked together to realise the outcomes? 

  • Describe how the partner, NHS teams and contractors worked together through design and delivery. 
  • Explain how clinical and operational needs, and patient experience, shaped the project. 
  • Provide evidence of effective joint working across complex stakeholders.

Impact

The measurable benefits delivered to patients, staff, your organisation or the wider system. Provide data and evidence showing improvements to outcomes, quality, access, equity or efficiency. 

  • Provide measurable evidence of improved facilities, capacity or environments for care. 
  • Share data and feedback from staff and patients. 
  • Demonstrate value for money and efficient delivery.

Scale

How your work has been shared, adopted or replicated beyond your immediate team or organisation. This includes dissemination through publications, presentations, toolkits, partnerships or inspiring similar initiatives elsewhere. 

  • Explain how the approach or learning has been applied to other projects. 
  • Describe how best practice has been shared, including any innovative methods.

Sustainability

The potential for the project/work to continue and create lasting impact. Evidence of how it can be sustained or built upon. 

  • Describe how the project supports long-term, sustainable estates, including environmental performance. 
  • Explain how the benefits endure and can be built upon.

Healthcare Infrastructure and Estates Project of the Year

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