Healthcare Infrastructure Project of the Year
Healthcare Infrastructure 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

  • Outline the scope of the project including the brief, objectives and parties involved
  • Please share any details of how the contracting process helped to refine and improve the project scope to enable the NHS to meet its goals with a cost-effective and value-based approach
  • Describe the targets set to measure the effectiveness of the project, and the steps put in place to achieve them

Outcomes  

  • How was the project realised and what were the results?
  • What challenges were met during project implementation and how were these collaboratively overcome?
  • Describe in detail with supporting information the success of the project including any financial, on-time delivery, energy, environmental and service delivery metrics

Spread

  • Has the partnership project team gained any learnings which have been or have the potential of being applied to projects elsewhere within the NHS organisation or other local health economies
  • How have the project team worked together at disseminating best practice? 

Involvement

  • What efforts were made to involve all relevant stakeholders in the planning and execution of the project? 
  • What processes were put in place to enable clear and regular communication of activity? 
  • Judges are looking for projects which have included parties effected by the plan including front-line staff, management and were relevant, patients 

Value

  • How was value creation included in the plan and realised in execution? 
  • Demonstrate any financial savings or improvements realised by the project
  • Discuss any non-monetary value measures, in terms of beneficial impacts on staff, patients and the environment

Healthcare Infrastructure Project of the Year

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