Finalists 2025

Finalists:

• Attain and Yorkshire Endoscopy Training Academy (YETA) and 13 NHS Acute Trusts in Yorkshire and Humber alongside Humber and North Yorkshire ICB, South Yorkshire ICB and West Yorkshire ICB with NHS England - Pan Yorkshire Endoscopy Training Academy
• Changeology Group & Airedale General Hospital - Productivity Improvement Programme
• Kaleidoscope Health and Care, NHS England and Frimley Health and Care ICS - Improving patient care through managing Heart Failure @Home
• Hill Dickinson LLP and Lancashire & South Cumbria FT - Collaborating for Good - Strengthening Legal Services for Trust Growth and Staff Welfare
• Locum’s Nest & University Hospitals Dorset FT - How a partnership built on 2 way communication developed technology solutions to go hand in hand with Trust policy
• NHS Shared Business Services & Norfolk and Waveney Procurement Collaboration - Enhanced Purchase to Pay – Building a system-wide transactional procurement service
• Orri and Sussex Partnership FT - Provider Collaborative and Orri Partnership
• PwC and NHS England - Frontline Digitisation Support Offer
• Strasys & University Hospitals of Liverpool - A modern, motivated workforce to shape a sustainable and thriving healthcare system

Finalists:

• BJSS, Hippo and NHS England - NHS Notify
• DrDoctor and Bradford Teaching Hospitals - Rheumatology Nurse Advice Line
• Diligram & Mid and South Essex Trust - MyStaff App: Revolutionising NHS Document Management and Information Accessibility
• Feedback Medical & Queen Victoria Hospital FT - Enhancing NHS Diagnostics Pathways with Bleepa: Streamlining Complex Care for Breathlessness Patients
• Changeology Group & Airedale General Hospital - Productivity Improvement Programme
• GP Care UK in partnership with BNSSG, BSW and Gloucestershire ICBs, Bristol Urology Group and Shire LLPs - One Stop Shop Community Urology Model
• Streamwave & St George’s University Hospitals FT - Patientcheck.in - Improving Efficiency with Digital Self Check-In
• Interface Clinical Services, an IQVIA business and Leeds Health and Care Partnership - Creating Prescribing Efficiencies of Oral Nutritional Supplementation in Leeds
• KPMG, Catalysis & Great Western FT, Salisbury FT, Royal United Hospitals Bath - Improving Together across the BaNES, Swindon & Wiltshire Provider Group

Finalists:

• Acumentice and Surrey & Sussex Healthcare Trust - Improving emergency care
• Edge Health and NHSE (GIRFT - Emergency Medicine) - Summary Emergency Department Indicator Table
• Integrated Care 24 - Unscheduled Care Coordination Hub
• InterSystems & eConsult - Digital triage platform for NHS urgent and emergency care settings with InterSystems IRIS for Health
• Marie Curie Bradford and Bradford Teaching Hospitals FT - Responsive Emergency Assessment and Community Team: An Acute Palliative Care Virtual Ward with Emergency Department in-reach
• Newton and One Gloucestershire - Working as One in Gloucestershire
• Strata Health Solutions, NHS England and East Lancashire Hospital Trust - Urgent and Emergency Care Digital Front Door
• Practice Plus Group - Unscheduled Care Coordination Hub
• Streamwave & St George’s University Hospitals FT - Patientcheck.in - Improving Patient Flow with Digital Self Check-In

Finalists:

• Anne Robson Trust & Mid Cheshire Hospitals FT - Companionship and support for dying patients
• Citizens Advice Winchester District and the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare FT - Solving Problems, Transforming Lives: Addressing the underlying triggers of mental health crisis
• RNIB working with Primary Eyecare Services and with the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership ICS - Integrating information, advice and support into primary eye care pathways
• Social Finance - Oxfordshire Rapid Intervention for Palliative and End of Life Care project
• Spectrum Community Health CIC & County Durham and Darlington FT - Bridging Care Through Collaboration: Virtual Ward at HMP Frankland
• Hospice Collaborative Partnership (Farleigh Hospice, Havens Hospices, St Luke’s Hospice) & NHS Mid and South Essex ICB - Hospice Rapid Access Service
• The Martin Gallier Project & Cheshire and Wirral Partnership - Preventing suicides, breaking down stigmas and supporting families in partnership with the NHS
• United Welsh and Aneurin Bevan University Health Board - The Acorn Service and The Bespoke Repatriation Service - Hiraeth
• Wellbeing Enterprises CIC and NHS Cheshire and Merseyside - Wellbeing Enterprises CIC: Re-socialising healthcare 

Finalists:

• Boehringer Ingelheim, Royal Papworth Hospital FT, East Suffolk and North Essex FT & Colchester Hospital - A partnership project to develop and deliver an innovative multi-Trust hybrid virtual/in-person clinic model, bringing specialist Interstitial Lung Disease care closer to home for patients in the East of England
• Bristol Myers Squibb, Macmillan Cancer Support and NHS Trusts - Collaborating for Prehabilitation
• MSD and Edinburgh Cancer Centre - EPIC: Early Prehabilitation in Lung Cancer project
• Lilly and NHS Gloucestershire Hospitals - Development of an Electronic Patient Reported Outcome Measures Platform for Breast Cancer
• Lilly UK & Dementias Platform UK and The Trials Delivery Framework, in collaboration with Greater Manchester MHFT, Oxford Health FT, University Hospitals Sussex FT and Sheffield Teaching Hospital FT - Improving accurate, early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease using cerebral spinal fluid testing
• Sanofi and Lancashire & South Cumbria ICS - Mapping of front-end skin pathway - A collaborative journey to optimise dermatology pathways and improve patient outcomes
• Sanofi & The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals FT - Asthma Service – To Improve the identification & follow up of patients with Asthma who attend or are admitted to hospital outside of the Respiratory Department
• Sanofi & University Hospitals Birmingham FT - A collaborative working project to improve patient experience and service delivery in the Severe Asthma Service
• West of Scotland Cancer Network - Skin Cancer Managed Clinical Network NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, NHS Lanarkshire, NHS Forth Valley, NHS Ayrshire & Arran Sanofi - Non Melanoma Skin Cancer Pathway Analysis & Improvement Project

Finalists:

• Alliance for Better Care CIC, NHS Sussex and West Sussex County Council - No Belongings, New Beginnings: Supporting Refugees and Asylum Seekers through personalised care
• Medstrom & Kent and Medway and Social Care Partnership Trust - Innovative Bedframe Solution to Mitigate Harm for Those with Mental and Physical Health Challenges
• Boehringer Ingelheim, Royal Papworth Hospital FT, East Suffolk and North Essex FT & Colchester Hospital - A partnership project to develop and deliver an innovative multi-Trust hybrid virtual/in-person clinic model, bringing specialist Interstitial Lung Disease care closer to home for patients in the East of England
• Hammersmith and Fulham Training Hub CIC & North West London Training Hubs - Driving a Social Movement: Empowering Local Leaders to Tackle Health Inequities and Transform Healthcare Systems
• London Borough of Barking & Dagenham Together First CIC NEL ICB - Barking & Dagenham Health Inequalities Leads
• Optum UK & University Hospitals Plymouth Trust, Cornwall FT,  Livewell South West & Cornwall Intellectual Disabilities Equitable Research at University of Plymouth - Reducing Hospital waiting times for People with Learning Disabilities
• VUIT Data Labs Black Country ICB and Walsall Together - The VUIT Outcomes Framework and Population Health Toolkit
• STaR Project Exeter & Clock Tower Surgery (Devon ICB) - The Exeter System Treatment and Recovery project
• Wellbeing Enterprises CIC and R Health (Runcorn PCN) - Complete Care Community: Improving outcomes for children and young people at risk of or living with conduct (behavioural) problems

Finalists:

• Compass Group UK&I - Medirest and Sherwood Forest Hospitals FT - Positive Impressions at Sherwood Forest Trust
• DrDoctor & University Hospitals Birmingham - Digitising the Patient Pathway at University Hospitals Birmingham
• Maternity Neonatal Voices Partnership and Royal Surrey County Hospital - Maternity Parent Portal
• Netcall, e18 innovation, University Hospitals Sussex FT - Transforming outpatient pathways: Using Automation to support Waiting List Validation
• Redmoor Health & Norfolk and Waveney ICB - Increasing NHS App Adoption through Social Media Management
• South Yorkshire Children and Young People’s Alliance - Breaking Cycles: Children and Young People Leading Change Side by Side
• University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals - Empowering Families and Transforming Care: The Cambridge Paediatric IBD Patient Engagement Initiative
• University of Reading and Royal Berkshire FT - “We’re Going to Hospital!” Using VR to help children learn about hospitals, and to understand their experience

Finalists:

• Health Care Management Trust and Humber Health Partnership - Sepsis: Together We Can Succeed Conference
• InterSystems & North Tees and Hartlepool FT - Electronic Observations (eObs) and sepsis reduction with TrakCare EPR
• Medstrom & Kent and Medway and Social Care Partnership Trust - Innovative Bedframe Solution to Mitigate Harm for Those with Mental and Physical Health Challenges
• Medstrom & Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital FT - Early Adoption of Dolphin Therapy Mattress System for Proactive Pressure Ulcer Prevention in Complex Post-Operative Patients
• RLDatix and NHS Scotland - A national eRostering system to support Health Boards across Scotland meet legislative duties
• Medstrom and The Hillingdon Hospital FT - Hillingdon Hospital TVN and Medstrom Partnership

Finalists:

• East One PCN Health Inequalities Leads, East One PCN Care Coordinators, Barking & Dagenham Council, Barking & Dagenham GP Federation (Together First CIC) & Health Inequality Leads Program, East One PCN Clinical Director and B&D Chair to NEL ICB - Community Health Drop-In Clinics
• HTP Apprenticeship College Limited & Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare FT - Careers for Young People
• Navigo Health and Social Care CIC - A Community Project to Transform the 0 – 5 Autism Assessment pathway in North East Lincolnshire
• Primary Care Physio and Carlisle Rural PCN - De-Prescribing Gabapentin and opiods
• Primary Eyecare Servcies - NHS Manchester Royal Eye Infirmary - Greater Manchester GERS
• STaR Project Exeter & Clock Tower Surgery (Devon ICB) - The Exeter System Treatment and Recovery project
• Wellbeing Enterprises CIC and NHS Cheshire and Merseyside (Halton Place) - We Connect Social Prescribing 
• Skin Analytics & NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB - Using AI to detect skin cancer earlier and transform patient experience in the community
• X-on Health, Hanley Consulting & Tudor Lodge Health Centre - Transforming Patient Access: A Collaborative Approach to Digital Innovation at Tudor Lodge Surgery

Finalists:

• Cornwall Training Hub, Kernow Health CIC - ’Foundations in Practice Management’ Development Programme
• Healthdaq & Western Health and Social Care Trust - Workforce Stabilisation and Agency Spend Reduction. A Collaborative Success Story
• Medical Resource Partners & NHS 111 - Enhancing NHS 111: Improving Healthcare Access and Patient Outcomes
• NHS Professionals and Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust - Migrating and eliminating agency spend across Buckinghamshire
• Patchwork Health and Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust - Adopting an end-to-end workforce solution to recruit and retain the medical workforce
• Supportive Care UK - Enabling access to Consultant advice for Palliative and End of Life Care

Finalists:

• AstraZeneca & NHS Partners - ChangeACADEMY - Delivering system level change
• Hammersmith and Fulham Training Hub CIC & North West London Training Hubs - A Curriculum for Change: Cultivating Leaders to Confront Deprivation and Champion Health Equity
• HTP Apprenticeship College Limited & Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare FT - Careers for Young People
• Nuffield Health, Florence Nightingale Foundation and NHS England - Green Healthcare Leaders Programme
• Royal College of General Practitioners - Personalised Care Institute - Personalised Care Institute Education Programme
• Royal College of Physicians and GIRFT- Stroke Specific Programme - Combining leadership and GIRFT project work in a novel programme to produce service change :GIRFT Leadership Academy Stroke Specific
• Sanofi & Lancashire & South Cumbria Cancer Alliance ICS - Advancing Suspected Skin Cancer Diagnosis - A collaborative journey to optimise dermatology pathways and improve patient outcomes
• The Bravest Path & NHS Partners - Braver Than Before
• University of Chester Medical School & CANDDID (Cheshire and Wirral Partnership Trust) - Post Graduate Certificate in Neurodevelopmental Conditions

Finalists:

• Accenture and NHS England - NHS England Secure Data Environment
• Changeology Group & Airedale General Hospital - Data Driven Decision Making in Ops
• Edge Health and NHSE  – Getting it right first time  - SPaedIT – A tool for diagnosing and treating children’s theatre elective recovery
• Pure Physiotherapy and North West Leicestershire Primary Care Network - FCPPortal

Finalists:

• Apadmi - TransplantPath
• Blueworks OIMS UK and NHS Gloucestershire ICB, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHSFT, Gloucestershire Local Optical Committee - Community Ophthalmic Link between Gloucestershire Hospitals and Community Optometrists
• Roche Diagnostics, Manchester University NHS FT and University of Manchester - Leveraging a strategic partnership to deliver innovation in HCC surveillance for patient benefit (The REVISE-HCC team)
• Definition Health and South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre - Patient-centric Hip and Knee Replacement Recovery Through Remote Monitoring: Prioritising Patient Safety, Individualised Care, and Digital Innovation
• InterSystems & North Tees and Hartlepool FT - TrakCare - Improves Efficiency of Nurse Admissions Process
• LutraHealth - LutraHealth: Digitising the Cataract Referral Pathway
• The PSC & Velindre University Trust - Using Value-Based Healthcare Analytics to Improve Cancer Care Outcomes and Efficiency
• Skin Analytics & Chelsea and Westminster Hospital FT - Demonstrating the clinical value of AI-powered Teledermatology: enabling transition from pilot to sustainable standard practice
• Spectrum Community Health CIC & County Durham and Darlington FT - Partnering for Better Health: Virtual Ward and Improved Care at HMP Frankland

Finalists:

• Acumentice and Surrey & Sussex Healthcare Trust - Elective Care Recovery Programme
• DMC Healthcare, Lincolnshire ICB, United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals Trust, and Lincolnshire Elective Activity Coordination Hub - Reducing Dermatology Patient Waiting Lists Post-COVID Recovery
• EMS Healthcare, Medinet, University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust - Reducing Waiting Times with a Dual Procedure Mobile Endoscopy Unit
• Changeology Group & Airedale General Hospital - Theatres Elective Recovery Initiative
• Ideal Health - Supporting Elective Recovery through improving patient data quality
• Spire Healthcare and NHS England - Increasing capacity to treat more patients and improving clinical outcomes by reducing the length of stay for joint replacements
• Sulis Hospital Bath & Royal United Hospitals Bath FT - Regional Capacity Integration
• Vanguard Healthcare Solutions South Warwickshire University FT - Reducing waiting lists, generating funds, improving lives: establishing a surgical hub

Finalists:

• Apadmi & NHS Blood and Transplant - TransplantPath
• Content Guru & NHS England London Region - Streamlining Care Pathways for 111 Callers Using NLP- AI-Assisted Large Data Set Classification
• Definition Health and South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre - Patient-centric Hip and Knee Replacement Recovery Through Remote Monitoring: Prioritising Patient Safety, Individualised Care, and Digital Innovation
• Diligram & Mid and South Essex Trust - MyStaff App: Revolutionising NHS Information Management through Digital Innovation
• DNV Imatis and Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust - Silent Hospital Pilot Project
• ITGL, Calabrio, & Mersey Care FT - Mersey Care – striving for perfect care, and supporting people in crisis
• Altera Digital Health UK and Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital FT - Achieving the highest international quality standard for digital excellence to support outstanding patient care and services
• Mitie, Navenio & Cumberland Infirmary (part of North Cumbria ICFT) - Using AI & Collaboration to Support & Improve Patient Care
• WASP Software and Warrington & Halton Teaching Hospitals FT - Phlebotomy Patient Self Booking Appointments

Finalists:

• Apetito & Northumbria Healthcare Facilities Management - Project Boomerang – The NHS’ First Closed-Loop Recycling System for Ready Meal Trays
• Blink Charging UK & Central London Community Healthcare Trust - EVC Infrastructure rollout
• Sustainable Health Coalition (SHC), Anaplan and NHS Arden and GEM - Pathway to a net zero NHS through sustainability and decarbonisation sustainable partnering. Innovating sustainability through strategic partnerships
• Johnson & Johnson MedTech, MyGroup, Resourcify and Frimley Health FT - Recycling surgical sterile wrap into teddy bears for children attending surgery
• Johnson & Johnson MedTech, MyGroup, Resourcify, UCLH FT - Suture Foil Recycling Programme with UCLH
• Mobilityways and Northern Care Alliance FT​​​​​​​ - Making zero carbon commuting a reality
• Preventx & Chelsea and Westminster Hospital FT - Redesigning online postal self-sampling kits to reduce single-use plastic by more than 80% and save 4.5 tonnes of plastic waste a year
• UCLPartners, UCLH FT, Barts FT, UCL University, NHS Property Services - Connecting for Change

Finalists:

• Changeology Group & Airedale General Hospital - Endoscopy Improvement Project - Improving Cancer Outcomes
• MSD and Edinburgh Cancer Centre - EPIC: Early Prehabilitation in Lung Cancer project
• Sanofi and The Christie FT - A Joint working agreement to understand and improve the patient journey and experience within  the cSCC service across Greater Manchester
• Skin Analytics & Chelsea and Westminster Hospital FT - Using Artificial Intelligence as a Medical Device to enable dermatologists to have more time for patients with skin cancer

Finalists:

• Assura, Northumbria Healthcare FT, Northumbria Healthcare Facilities Management and Northumbria Primary Care​​​​​​​ - Northumbria Health and Care Academy
• Baxendale - on behalf of Livewell Southwest CIC, ReSound LIFTCo, NHS Property Services, Community Health Partnerships, NHS Devon ICB and other valued partners - The Mount Gould Neurological Rehabilitation Service Relocation Project
• McLaren Construction, Dowds Group, DSSR & Lewisham and Greenwich Trust - Queen Elizabeth Hospital: modernising sitewide services
• Renova Developments - 20 years of supporting the NHS estate and community health
• WSP and University Hospitals Sussex FT - Optimising patient and staff transfers into the new Louisa Martindale Building 

Finalists:

• AstraZeneca & Aneurin Bevan Health Board - Improving care for patients with Severe Asthma
• Baxter Healthcare & South Yorkshire ICS - Advanced Surgery Advantage Programme
• Dosium, British National Formulary (Pharmaceutical Press), West London Children’s Healthcare (a partnership between Imperial College Trust and Chelsea and Westminster FT) - Transforming prescribing safety by putting the British National formulary at the heart of clinical decision support with Dosium
• Feedback Medical & Queen Victoria Hospital FT - Enhancing NHS Diagnostics Pathways with Bleepa: Streamlining Complex Care for Breathlessness Patients
• Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions, Graphnet & Frimley ICS - A clinically-validated segmentation approach to service redesign
• Lloyds Pharmacy Online Doctor, Preventx & Chelsea and Westminster FT - SHL.UK - Sexual Health London
• Nuffield Health, Manchester University FT, Northern Care Alliance, University of Manchester and University of Salford​​​​​​​ - Greater Manchester Major Trauma Enhanced Rehabilitation Service
• Ozone Health and South Yorkshire ICB (Rotherham and Barnsley Place) - The Dermatologist will see you now! Making Dermatolgy services accessible, efficient and equitable
• Skin Analytics & Manchester University FT - The NHS’s first AI-driven ‘see and treat’ service for suspected skin cancer

Finalists:

• Baywater Healthcare, Pathways Associates and NHS England Learning Disability and Autism Programme - CPAP Support Materials
• Boehringer-Ingelheim and Inspira Health, The Care Lab, Widnes PCN, Widnes Highfield Health, and NHS Trusts - A Cardio-Renal-Metabolic Quality Improvement Programme: Delivering Change for Patients with Long-term Conditions in Widnes
• DrDoctor and Bradford Teaching Hospitals - Rheumatology Nurse Advice Line
• Everton in the Community and University Hospitals of Liverpool Group - BEAT Breathlessness
• InterSystems & Ireland’s National Forensic Mental Health Service - InterSystems & Ireland’s National Forensic Mental Health Service  - TrakCare
• Kaleidoscope Health and Care, NHS England and Frimley Health and Care ICS - Improving patient care through managing Heart Failure @Home
• Nuffield Health & NHS St Georges Trust - Joint Pain Programme
• Personal Homecare Pharmacy and Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust - Setting new standards in supporting the management of people with long term conditions in Clinical Homecare
• Wellbeing Enterprises CIC & Warrington and Halton Hospitals FT - Long Covid Service

Finalists:

• Attain, Dartford, Gravesham & Swanley Health & Care Partnership, Dartford & Gravesham Trust - Working together to design and deliver an integrated Community Investment Programme
• Livewell Southwest and University Hospitals Plymouth Trust - Homefirst
• Brigstowe & University Hospitals Bristol and Weston FT​​​​​​​- Common Ambition Bristol (CAB): Co-producing interventions to reduce HIV stigma and increase testing among people of African and Caribbean heritage in Bristol
• Lloyds Pharmacy Online Doctor, Preventx & Chelsea and Westminster FT - SHL.UK - Sexual Health London
• National Clinical Homecare Association & National Homecare Medicines Committee, NHS England - Best Kept Secret: The Value of Clinical Homecare To The NHS, Patients And Society
• Nuffield Health, Manchester University FT, Northern Care Alliance, University of Manchester and University of Salford - Greater Manchester Major Trauma Enhanced Rehabilitation Service
• Skin Analytics & NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB - ICB-wide collaboration and innovation to support early skin cancer detection and drive sustainability using AI
• Streamliners, Yma, NHS Executive (Planned Care) and the six Health Boards - All of Wales implementation of HealthPathways
• The PSC & Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership - Discharge and Intermediate Care Transformation in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire

Finalists:

• Brigstowe & University Hospitals Bristol and Weston FT​​​​​​​- Common Ambition Bristol (CAB): Co-producing interventions to reduce HIV stigma and increase testing among people of African and Caribbean heritage in Bristol
• Daiichi Sankyo UK & Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust - Future Innovations in the Novel Detection of Atrial Fibrillation (This Joint Working project was co-funded by Daiichi Sankyo UK and is aimed at benefitting patients as well as supporting innovation in the cardiovascular disease area)
• Everton in the Community and University Hospitals of Liverpool Group - BEAT Breathlessness
• Kooth Digital Health, Transport for Greater Manchester & NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership - Universal Preventative Mental Health Support for ages 10 and up in Greater Manchester
• Morelife (UK) & NHS Kent & Medway ICB - Transformative Weight Management Service for Children and Families in Medway & Swale
• Nuffield Health - Community Blood Pressure Pilot
• SiSU & NHS SNEE ICB - Support Prevention in the Community 
• Sweatcoin Citizen Communications, Xyla Services & South West London ICB - Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Decathlon
• Wincanton in partnership with Leicester Diabetes Centre based at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust & Loughborough University - The Structured Health Intervention For Truckers  - from programme conception to implementation

Finalists:

• Endeavour Medical - Remote and Restorative Medicine: Enhancing well-being and connection for doctors
• i&e Professionals in Partnership with the NHS in England and Wales & NHSE - Women in Leadership for Finance Network
• Locum’s Nest & Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals FT - Equal opportunities & enhanced efficiency: Unifying all healthcare workforce management through digital innovation
• PHEM Feedback - Pre- hospital emergency medicine feedback 
• Canterbury Christ Church University and Medway FT - Ready, Sim, Thrive - The Simway Hospital Experience
• The Bravest Path & NHS Partners - Braver Than Before