IHPA winners 2026
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Independent Healthcare Providers Awards Winners
- Best Provider of Community and Primary Care
Winner: Practice Plus Group Hospitals, Ophthalmology - Vision in the Community: Reducing Health Inequalities Through Mobile Ophthalmology
Highly commended: HCRG Care Group - Delivering 'left shift' in Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley
Finalists:- Community Health and Eyecare - Bringing Care Closer to Home: Integrating Community Services to Strengthen the NHS
- Cyted Health - CYTOPRIME2: Transforming Reflux Care through Community-Based Early Cancer Detection
- Improving Health Limited, Quay Health Solutions and Guys and St Thomas' FT (Community Tissue Viability Team) - Southwark Ambulatory Lower Limb Service
- InHealth Group - Outstanding contribution to NHS 10 year plan through delivery of nationwide CDC programme
- Operose Health - Care closer to the community: Proactive outreach to improve access, outcomes and experience for underserved groups
- PHL GROUP - Cambridge Access Surgery
- SpaMedica - UK’s first relocatable Ophthalmic Diagnostic and Treatment Centre (ODTC)
- Best Provider of Diagnostic Services
Winner: Alliance Medical & Manchester University FT - Collaboration at the Heart: Transforming Cardiac Diagnostics across Greater Manchester
Highly commended: InHealth Group - Outstanding contribution to NHS 10 year plan through delivery of nationwide CDC programme
Finalists:- Agito Medical, Advanced Managed Diagnostic Services & Somerset FT - Complex Scans, Local Access: Bringing Advanced Diagnostics to the Community in the South West
- Alliance Medical & Lancashire Teaching Hospitals FT - From Pilot to Pathway: Straight to PET-CT - a regional model for faster cancer diagnosis.
- Compleo Health & Dartford and Gravesham Trust - Innovative Community Diagnostics to Support High Quality Output and Standards
- Everlight Radiology - Delivering high quality radiology reporting at scale: Over 2 million patients supported
- Best Provider of Digital Healthcare Services
Winner: InTouchNow.ai - Calling Time on the 8am Rush: Scalable Voice AI for NHS Primary Care
Finalists:- Hippo Labs - Hippo Recaller: Proactive Care Automation in NHS Primary Care
- Medefer - Remote-First Outpatients: Faster Care, Better Outcomes
- Oviva UK - Digital Delivery of Specialist Weight Management and Diabetes Support
- Best Provider of Mental Health Services
Winner: Everyone Health - Severe Mental Illness (SMI) Healthy Lifestyle Service
Finalists:- Cygnet Group - Cygnet Group: Building for Better Mental Health
- Everyturn & NENC ICB - CLINICAL CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICE
- Tellmi & Berkshire West NHS ICB - A Digital Mental Health Service for Young People in Berkshire West
- Best Provider of Outpatient Services
Winner: Health Harmonie (part of the Medinet Group) - Delivering Real Results Through Transforming Outpatient Pathways Across the NHS
Highly commended: ID Medical Group, Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon & Wiltshire ICB - Community Skin Surgery Service
Finalists:- HBSUK - Digital Outpatients Platform
- Healthcare Management Trust (St Hugh's Hospital, Grimsby) - Peri-operative optimisation, reducing cancellations and health inequalities
- Medefer - Remote-First Outpatients: Faster Care, Better Outcomes
- Oviva UK - Specialist Consultant Led Tier 3 Weight Management Support
- Excellence in Clinical Innovation
Winner: Orri & NHS Sussex and NHS Kent & Medway - Transforming Eating Disorder care through virtual innovation
Highly commended: Anubix & Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care FT - Raising Standards in Compassionate Death Care: Tameside & Glossop NHS Post Mortem CT (PMCT) Collaboration
Finalists:- BUPA Cromwell Hospital & Imperial College London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital - Developing and Incorporating Robotic single port surgical innovation and effective robotics education into UK surgical practice
- Circle Health Group - A Unified Approach to Governance: Harnessing Digital Innovation for Safer Care
- Oviva UK - Specialist Consultant Led Tier 3 Weight Management Support
- Practice Plus Group - From Recovery to Reablement: Advancing Specialist Care in Secure Units
- Outstanding Contribution to Preventative Care
Winner: Spire Healthcare - Reducing the incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in post surgical patients and improving the recognition and care for those who do develop a clot.
Highly commended: Cora Health - Flippin' Pain. A population health initiative engaging, educating, and empowering people to reduce the burden of chronic pain.
Finalists:- Doccla & Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB - Proactively supporting patients through Virtual Care across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB
- Medefer - Targeted Prostate Health Checks: Finding Cancer Earlier
- Primary Care Physio - Menopause Education: Empowering Women with knowledge and skill around menopause to support in the management of MSK Pain