Winners 2026
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- Best Consultancy Partnership with the NHS
Winner: Living Potential Consulting & NHSE - NHS Leaders' Health and Wellbeing Programme
Finalists:- Develop Consulting & NHS England - Transforming General Practice - Time, Access and Care
- Gbp consult & North Central London ICB - Strategic Estates Partnership
- Healthcare Legal Consultancy and Surrey & Sussex FT - NHS Legal Services Improvement Roadmaps
- max20 Project Solutions & Norfolk & Waveney University Hospitals Group - FORCES for Change: max20 Project Solutions and Norfolk & Waveney’s Transformation & Performance Framework
- Moorhouse Consulting & NHS England and Department of Health and Social Care - Health System Commercial Training Needs Analysis
- Scott McKenzie Consultancy & Primary Care Warwickshire GP Federation - Rejoyn Project with Primary Care Warwickshire GP Federation and Otsuka Pharmaceuticals (U.K.) Ltd
- Best Contribution to Improving the Efficiency of NHS Services
Winner: Roche Products & The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Real World Evidence Study on the Resource Impact of immunotherapy formulations in an NHS Cancer Center
Highly commended: 33n & East Lancashire Hospitals Trust - Frontline nurses at the forefront of innovation — partnering with supplier to embed AI into care delivery and achieve transformative improvements in productivity and efficiency (copy)
Finalists:
- CrossCover & Moorfields Eye Hospital FT - Better referrals give patients quicker treatment and cut out paperwork for clinicians
- Flok Health & Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust - An AI physiotherapy service in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough
- Integrella & NHS England and London Ambulance Service - 999 Transfer of Care - ToC
- iRhythm Technologies & Dartford and Gravesham Trust - Transforming Stroke and TIA Pathways through AI-Enabled Ambulatory Cardiac Monitoring
- Kneu Health & East Suffolk and North Essex FT - Proactive Digital Monitoring: Transforming Parkinson’s Care to Boost NHS Efficiency
- Proximie & Guy's and St Thomas' FT- Using technology and data to improve surgical theatre productivity and reduce patient backlogs
- Regent’s Park Healthcare & University Hospitals Plymouth Trust - Regent's Park Healthcare – 20 years of Delivering Worldclass Cardiology Services in Partnership with the NHS
- Roche Products & The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Real World Evidence Study on the Resource Impact of immunotherapy formulations in an NHS Cancer Center
- Best Contribution to the Improvement of Urgent and Emergency Care
Winner: Prism Improvement & Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University FT - Emergency Care Improvement Programme with Wythenshawe Hospital
Highly commended: Frontier Health & East Sussex Healthcare Trust - Juno - Supportive AI amplifying ED staff productivity to improve flow.
Finalists:
- Integrella & NHS England and London Ambulance Service - 999 Transfer of Care - ToC
- Vygon UK & Croydon University Hospital’s Intensive Treatment Unit, Croydon Health Services Trust - Saving time and money, reducing infection and easing pressure: Haemodynamic monitoring at Croydon ITU
- Best Educational Programme for the NHS
Winner: Certified Minds Limited in partnership with UHSx NHS Trust, NCIC NHS Trust and many more - Certified Minds National CYP Mental Health Training programme for Paediatric NHS Teams
Highly commended: Flippin' Pain - a Cora Health initiative- NHS Lincolnshire ICB, NHS Humberside & North Yorkshire ICB & Teesside University - Pain: Do You Get It?: Professional Education blending science, lived experience, and storytelling to change the way whole healthcare systems support people affected by chronic pain
Finalists:
- Anglia Ruskin University & NHS England - NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme
- Cogniss & Health Innovation East - Health Innovation East & Cogniss: A No-Code Educational Programme Empowering NHS Clinicians to Build the Future of Digital Health
- Essity UK & One Gloucestershire ICS - Gloucestershire Lower Limb Wound Care Education Programme: Building Workforce Capability Through Strategic Partnership
- Gas Mark 8 & GatewayC (The Christie FT) - GatewayC: the early cancer diagnosis resource
- South Bank Colleges & Moorfields Eye Hospital FT - Functional skills and Fundamental Digital skills training for the workforce
- Wing Factors & Frimley Health FT - Simley Health
- Best Elective Care Recovery Initiative
Winner: Ramsay Health Care UK & York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals FT - Collaborative Insourcing to Expand NHS Orthopaedic Capacity in York
Highly commended: ID Medical Group & Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board - Dermatology Project 104
Finalists:
- 33n & The Royal Wolverhampton Trust - Driving productivity and efficiency through ambient voice technology: The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust’s successful partnership with technology supplier to achieve gains safely and responsibly
- Johnson & Johnson MedTech and University Hospital Morecambe Bay - University Hospital Morecambe Bay. GIRFT Aligned Specialty Led Scheduling Project.
- Johnson & Johnson MedTech and Chesterfield Royal Hospital - Chesterfied Royal Hospital. Accelerated discharge programme for primary hip and knee arthroplasty patients.
- Practice Plus Group Hospitals & NHS - Better Access, Better Outcomes: A Smarter Way to Deliver Surgery
- Best Not for Profit Working in Partnership with the NHS
Winner: Severn Wye Energy Agency & NHS Gloucestershire ICB, with Gloucestershire County Council - Warmth on Prescription / NHS Retrofit
Highly commended: Maggie's & NHS Trusts - Getting Started
Finalists:
- Age UK Westminster, Age UK Kensington & Chelsea and Central & North West London FT - Kensington & Chelsea/Westminster Social Isolation & Digital Inclusion Project
- Breast Cancer Now, Mid & South Essex FT and Sandwell and West Birmingham Trust - Breast Cancer Now in partnership with NHS hospitals: how the Here for You referral route is transforming personalised support for anyone diagnosed with breast cancer.
- Citizens Advice Wirral & Victoria Central Health Centre - Flourish Wellbeing Hub
- Diabetes Africa, Guy's and St Thomas' FT & Lewisham and Greenwich Trust - Advancing Equity in Diabetes & Pregnancy
- Everyturn & North East & North Cumbria ICB - CCMS - Partnership Success
- MAMA Academy & Airedale Trust, Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals, Barkantine Centre, Bedfordshire University Hospitals (Luton & Dunstable), Countess of Chester NHS, Darent Valley Hospital, East Kent Hospitals University, Gloucestershire Hospitals FT, Hull, Kent & Medway, Lewisham & Greenwich, Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells Trust, Medway FT & Northampton General Hospital - Wellbeing Wallets and Pregnancy Passports
- Mental Health Matters & NHS Kent and Medway - Kent & Medway Safe Havens
- Best Partnership Delivering Virtual Care
Winner: Roczen & Suffolk and North East Essex ICB, East Suffolk and North Essex FT -Bringing Specialist Care Home: A Partnership Transforming Access to Complex Obesity Treatment
Highly commended: Orri & NHS Kent and Sussex Adult Eating Disorders Provider Collaborative - Delivering virtual recovery at home: Redefining Eating Disorder care
Finalists:- Absolute Interpreting & Translations and Bedfordshire Hospitals FT - Virtual, but Tangible
- Doccla UK & Surrey Heartlands ICB - Delivering Virtual Care Across the Care Continuum:
- Doccla & Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB - Proactively supporting patients through Virtual Care across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB
- Immedicare & Airedale FT - Your partner in supporting care homes with digitally delivered clinical care, 24/7
- Ortus-iHealth & Barts Health Trust - ATLAS Virtual Ward: Safe Home Management for Low-Risk Non-ST Elevated Myocardial Infarction (NSTEMI) Patients
- Best Partnership Supporting Personalised Care Pathways
Winner: Roczen & Suffolk and North East Essex ICB, East Suffolk and North Essex FT - An Integrated, Personalised, Digital-First Pathway for Patients Living with Complex Obesity
Highly commended: Kneu Health & Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust - Personalised Parkinson’s Pathways: A Digital Partnership Transforming Neurology Care at Leeds
Finalists:- AstraZeneca UK and NHS Humber & North Yorkshire ICB (Selby Town & Yorkshire Medical Group PCNs) - LOGIC - Holistic Proactive Management in COPD
- Athena Care Homes, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital FT, Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust, Norfolk County Council, Norfolk and Waveney ICB - Transforming Discharge Pathways through Integrated Digital and Community Collaboration in West Norfolk
- Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK & University College London Hospitals FT - Innovation and Data Strategy to Improve the Patient Pathway and Flow within Breast Cancer Service.
- Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK & Imperial College Healthcare Trust - Tertiary lipid service development and extension to stroke service
- Nuffield Health & Sheffield Hallam University Multiple Trusts - Cancer Activity Programme
- Best Pharmaceutical Partnership with the NHS
Winner: Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK & Gateshead Health FT - Holistic Prescribing in Secondary Prevention : Optimising outcomes using an innovative cardio-renal-metabolic service
Highly commended: Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK & The Royal Marsden FT - Royal Marsden NHS FT Breast Cancer Capacity Service Redesign
Finalists:
- Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly UK) & Health Innovation Manchester - Transforming Obesity Care in Greater Manchester
- MSD UK & Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance - LungAware: Digital Patient Awareness across Greater Manchester
- Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK & The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre FT - Streamlining Breast Cancer Care Through a Dedicated Toxicity Nurse at the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre
- PharmBot AI in collaboration with UK Pharmacy Networks and NHS Stakeholders - AIVAe – Building the Future of AI-Enabled Pharmacy Partnerships
- Roche Products & The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Real World Evidence Study on the Resource Impact of immunotherapy formulations in an NHS Cancer Center
- Best Technology Partnership with the NHS
Winner: ClinisysTM & Health and Social Care Northern Ireland - All Trusts - Northern, Belfast, South Eastern, Southern, Western, and NIBTS - Northern, Belfast, South Eastern, Southern, Western - Northern Ireland Pathology Information Management Systems
Highly commended: Cognitant Group & University College London Hospitals FT - My Stroke Companion: a personalised digital support package for prevention of secondary stroke
Finalists:
- Big Health and Primary Care Sheffield & Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber - Daylight: an innovative Step 1 treatment for anxiety in the NHS
- C the Signs & NHS Suffolk & North East Essex ICB - Delivering 800% ROI and 12% increase in Cancer detection rate
- Heidi & Modality Partnership - Releasing Time to Care – Deploying AI Transcription at scale in Primary Care
- Lantum & Whittington Health Trust - Rethinking Rotas: How AI Helped Whittington Health Reduce Resident Doctor Burnout, Gaps and Costs
- Restart Consulting & Devon Partnership Trust - Archiving Data Allows EPR Deployment in 90 Days
- System C & Royal Wolverhampton Trust - Modernising Patient Care: Integrated EPR Deployment with System C and Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
- Vygon UK & Croydon University Hospital’s Intensive Treatment Unit (ITU), Croydon Health Services Trust - Saving time and money, reducing infection and easing pressure: Haemodynamic monitoring at Croydon ITU
- Data Integration Project of the Year
Winner: Vizify Analytics & North West London ICB - Whole System Integrated Care (WSIC), North West London’s single source of truth, integrating siloed data for 2.8M patients
Highly commended: Telefónica Tech UK&I, Starlight Consulting and Oxford University Hospitals FT - Thames Valley & Surrey Secure Data Environment
Finalists:
- Guardian Electrical Compliance (PTSG) & Various NHS Trusts - Guardian Electrical Compliance – TraQ-it: Centralising Electrical Safety Data for Smarter NHS Estates Management
- Restart Consulting & Devon Partnership Trust - Archiving Data Allows EPR Deployment in 90 Days
- Environmental Sustainability Project of the Year
Winner: Nuffield Health & University College London - Controlling theatre ventilation to generate energy and carbon savings
Highly commended: B. Braun Medical & Gateshead Health FT - RENU: Reusable surgical instruments for a circular economy, cost savings and efficiency gains
Finalists:
- Essity UK & Leeds Teachings Hospitals Trust - Leeds Vascular Sustainability Project
- Lexica (member of WSP) & Mersey Care NHS FT - Driving net zero progress with a future-focused Green Plan
- Healthcare Infrastructure Project of the Year
Winner: Sewell Advisory & NHS South Yorkshire ICB - South Yorkshire Primary Care Capital Programme
Highly commended: Akeso & Barnsley Hospital FT- Health on the Highstreet
Finalists:
- gbp consult & North Central London ICB - Strategic Estates Partnership
- Guardian Electrical Compliance (PTSG) & NHS Grampian - Delivering Full Electrical Compliance Across the Entire NHS Grampian Estate
- Most Effective Contribution to Clinical Redesign
Winner: Kneu Health & Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust - Redesigning Parkinson's Care with Digital Innovation
Highly commended: Essity UK & One Gloucestershire ICS - Integrated Care for Lower Limb Wounds: A Blueprint for Change
Finalists:
- ANUBIX & Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care FT - Transforming Death Investigation Pathways: A Radiology–Pathology Redesign
- Essity UK, Health & Medical & University Hospitals Birmingham FT - Transforming Continence Pathways Through Value Based, Patient Centred Innovation
- Johnson & Johnson MedTech & Barts Health Trust Whipps Cross Hospital - Enhanced Recovery Programme In Fragility Hip Fractures
- Magentus & Cheshire and Merseyside Pathology Network - Transforming Pathology in Cheshire and Merseyside Through a Single Regional LIMS
- Primary Care 24 & Cheshire and Merseyside ICB - Redesigning Urgent Care: The Synergy of UCP Triage and GP Clinical Coordination
- Regent's Park Healthcare & University Hospitals Plymouth Trust - Regent's Park Healthcare - Twenty years of Clinical Pathway Transformation across Cardiology Services
- Most Effective Contribution to Improving Care for Those with Long-term Conditions
Winner: The PSC & Parkinson's UK - Time‑Critical Medications Dashboard to Improve Patient Safety and Financial Efficiency Across the NHS
Highly commended: Kidney Beam & King's College Hospital FT - The world's first clinically-proven kidney-specific rehabilitation app
Finalists:
- AstraZeneca UK & NHS Humber & North Yorkshire - LOGIC - Holistic Proactive Management in COPD
- Medstrom & Rampton Secure Hospital - Improving Care for Patients with Physical and Mental Health Challenges in Secure Environments Using An Appropriate Equipment
- Novartis Pharmaceuticals & Forest Heath Primary Care Network - Forest Heath PCN Lipid Clinic support project
- Nuffield Health & Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire Strategic Clinical Networks - Long-Term Conditions Rehabilitation Programme
- Personal Homecare Pharmacy & Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust - Fast, Safe, Connected: Redefining Long-Term Condition Homecare
- Most Effective Contribution to Integrated Health and Care
Winner: Circle Health Group & Bedford, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB - Circle Integrated Care and Bedfordshire MSK
Finalists:- Essity UK & NHS Wales, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, Betsi Cadwaladr UHB, Cardiff & Vale UHB & Hywel Dda UHB - Acting as One: A Value Based Partnership Transforming Continence Care Across NHS Wales
- HCRG Care Group, Dartford and Gravesham Trust and Kent and Medway ICB - Delivering the 'left shift' in Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley
- Johnson & Johnson MedTech & University Hospitals Birmingham FT - Birmingham and Solihull Fracture Neck of Femur Pathway: Hospital and Community Collaboration to Improve Recovery
- Word360 & Birmingham Community Healthcare - Birmingham Community Healthcare and Word360: Breaking Language Barriers - Embedding Wordskii into Rio for Seamless Patient Support
- Xytal Health Management & Suffolk and North East Essex ICB - Reconnecting the Primary-Secondary Interface
- Most Impactful Partnership in Population Health
Winner: Eli Lilly & Company (Lilly UK) & Frimley Health and Frimley ICS - Reducing health inequalities for working aged people living with diabetes in Slough through Point of Care (POC) HbA1c testing. A Core20PLUS5 project in NHS Frimley.
Highly commended: GOQii UK & Modality Partnership - Healthy Habits, Healthier Communities: The GOQii–Modality Partnership Powering NHS Prevention at Scale
Finalists:
- AYMES International - AYMES Sample Service
- Health Diagnostics & Medway Council Public Health - How Medway Council drives improved Population Health Outcomes using Health Diagnostics’ digital solution
- Medstrom & Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust - Advancing Bed Bathing & Patient Hygiene to Deliver Improved Patient Experience & Deliver Caregiver Efficiencies
- NEC Software Solutions & United Hospitals Dorset - The positive impact of the Hospital Eye Service (HES) recall initiative on patient care
- NEC Software Solutions & NHS England - North West Public Health Commissioning Team; West Knowsley PCN & Primary Care Knowsley GP Federation - Seeing everyone: Addressing barriers in diabetic eye screening for learning disability populations in Central Mersey
- Most Impactful Project Addressing Health Inequalities
Winner: Pioneering Care Partnership & County Durham Darlington FT - The Health Squad
Highly commended: MSD UK & Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance - LungAware: Digital patient awareness across Greater Manchester
Finalists:
- University Hospitals of Leicester Trust, Becton Dickinson (BD) and NHS Supply Chain - Quality improvement project to address gender-based health inequalities and improve patient safety
- CardMedic & Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust - Epsom and St Helier reduces avoidable readmissions in maternity services with CardMedic
- Medstrom & Nottinghamshire Healthcare FT - Improving Care for Patients with Physical and Mental Health Challenges in Secure Environments Using An Appropriate Equipment
- NEC Software Solutions & NHSE North West Public Health Commissioning Team; Knowsley Primary Care Network - Central Mersey Diabetic Eye Screening Programme
- Practice Plus Group, HMIP & Katherine House Hospice - Dignity Behind Bars: Transforming End-of-Life Care to Tackle Health Inequalities in Prisons
- SiSU Health UK & Beacon House Ministries - Empowering Essex’s Homeless Community Through Digital Preventative Care
- SPRYT, Islington GP Federation, NCL Cancer Alliance and NCL ICB - Asa – Improving Screening Uptake and Patient Experience across North Central London
- Most Impactful Use of Technology on Clinical Practice
Winner: Solventum & The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals FT - Transforming venous thromboembolism care with AI: the Follow-up Finder project
Highly commended: eMed Healthcare UK Rapid Health & GP at Hand GP partnership - Implementing a 24/7 triage and appointment booking service - GP at Hand, eMed and Rapid Health
Finalists:
- Core Prescribing Solutions & Norfolk GP Surgeries - Clinical Pharmacy Cardiovascular Project
- Cromwell Hospital & Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Stanmore Royal London Hospital - eXeX and Apple Vision Pro for Intraoperative Efficiency in Complex Spinal Surgery
- Flexicare & NHS Hospitals at Home - JJB - Healthcare beyond hospital walls
- Kneu Health, East Suffolk and North Essex FT & Health Innovation East England - Transforming Parkinson’s Care at ESNEFT through Kneu Health’s Smartphone-based technology
- Ondine Biomedical & Mid Yorkshire Teaching Trust - Reducing surgical site infections with nasal photodisinfection at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
- Patient Engagement and Experience Initiative of the Year
Winner: Quantium Health & Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust - AI Innovation in Patient Experience
Highly commended: Practice Plus Group & NHS England - Call PHILL: Empowering loved ones as patient advocates
Finalists:
- Cygnet Group & Cygnet Group - Cygnet Group: Social Hubs
- Dedalus Healthcare & Imperial College Healthcare Trust - Reducing Health Inequalities Through Inclusive Digital Pathways for Equitable Patient Choice and Engagement in Outpatient Radiology Services
- MAD4 Business, MyWay Digital Health & North West London ICB - Stronger Steps: Community-led Digital Engagement that supports and empowers Residents in North West London on My Health London
- SPRYT, Islington GP Federation, NCL Cancer Alliance and NCL ICB - Asa – Improving Screening Uptake and Patient Experience across North Central London
- Patient Safety Collaboration of the Year
Winner: Primary Care 24 North Park Practice & Light for Life - Transforming Access to Healthcare for Homeless and Vulnerable Patients in Sefton
Highly commended: Johnson & Johnson MedTech & Somerset FT - Reusable Theatre Caps in Theatre with Name & Role
Finalists:
- Arjo UK & North West Anglia FT - MOVE Pressure Ulcer Prevention Programme
- Personal Homecare Pharmacy & Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust - Safeguarding Patients Through Digital Collaboration in Clinical Homecare
- Primary and Community Care Project of the Year
Winner: Flok Health & Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust - An AI physiotherapy service in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough
Highly commended: Lloyds Clinical & NHS Trusts - Rapid Response of National Medication Shortage
Finalists:
- Brain + & South care homes - Keeping minds active: Powering prevention through partnership in dementia care
- Core Prescribing Solutions & Norfolk GP Surgeries - Clinical Pharmacy Cardiovascular Project
- Edge Health & RM Partners NHS Cancer Alliance - Cancer Quality Improvement Scheme
- Essity UK and Midlands Partnership FT - TENA Revise: Transforming Continence Reassessment Through Community Collaboration and Supported Self-Management.
- HCRG Care Group & Dartford and Gravesham Trust and Kent and Medway ICB - Delivering 'left shift' in Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley
- iRhythm Technologies, Surrey Academic Health & Care Partnership, Modality Partnership &The Mill Medical Practice - The Surrey Energise Project: Delivering Longer Term Cardiac Monitoring in Primary Care
- Lloyds Clinical & Birmingham Women's and Children's FT - Alex and Archie
- Staffing Solution of the Year
Winner: Helpforce - Helpforce's Volunteer to Career
Highly commended:
Finalists:- Mokita Training and Consultancy & Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health FT - Becoming an Active Bystander
- NHS Professionals & South Tees Hospitals FT - A perfect marriage: Innovative spousal HCSWD programme creates new workforce for the NHS
- Oleeo & Royal Papworth Hospital FT - From Reactive Hiring to Proactive Strategy: Building a Sustainable Workforce
- Real World Group & The Christie FT - Transforming Executive NHS Recruitment through Inclusive Leadership Diagnostics
- SARD & Countess of Chester Hospital FT - Redefining Workforce Planning for Sustainable Care at Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Workforce and Wellbeing Initiative of the Year
Winner: HCRG Care Group, Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB, Surrey Heartlands ICB and Leicester and Rutland ICB - Onboarding and Workforce Wellbeing Programme: Transfer of 3,306 staff to new provider
Highly commended: Living Potential Consulting & NHS England - NHS Leaders' Health and Wellbeing Programme
Finalists:
- Holly Health & Modality Partnership - Supporting NHS Staff Wellbeing through Digital Behaviour Change
- Lantum & Whittington Health Trust - Smarter Rostering, Happier Teams: Whittington & Lantum Partnership
- Levitex, The Sleep Charity, NHS South Yorkshire ICB & Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber - Sleep Posture for Health Equity