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Shortlist 2026

Congratulations to the individuals, projects, teams, and organisations who made this year's shortlist!

Acute Sector Innovation of the Year


Finalists:

  • Ashford & St Peters Trust - TULA and its impact on Bladder Cancer Care
  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals FT - Implementing the new Acute Care Model in Blackpool Victoria Hospital
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust in partnership with Leeds Hospitals Charity - The Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease
  • Medway FT - The Medway Acute Virtual Hospital: 24/7 Multi-specialty Acute Care in Patients’ Homes
  • NHS Golden Jubilee University National Hospital on behalf of the ANIA partnership - ANIA Neonatal Gentamicin Point of Care Testing
  • Somerset FT - Interactive Care POC pilot
  • The Christie FT - Ambulatory Nasogastric Tube Feeding Pilot
  • The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital FT - Focused shockwave therapy for patients suffering with greater trochanteric pain syndrome
  • Torbay and South Devon FT - Torbay Charts: Transforming Decision Readiness in Elective Care
Clinical Leader of the Year


Finalists:

  • Hywel Dda University Health Board, NHS Wales - Cerian Llewelyn
  • Imperial College Healthcare Trust - Dr Jenny Illingworth
  • Lewisham and Greenwich Trust - Michael Barns
  • Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust - Veena Kaul
  • Royal Marsden FT & Institute of Cancer Research, London - Clare Turnbull
  • The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre FT - Prof Arthur Sun Myint
  • University Hospital Southampton - Dr Mayank Patel
  • University Hospitals Sussex FT - Prof Anna Olsson-Brown
  • West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals Trust - Vanash Patel
Clinical Pathway Redesign Award


Finalists:

  • Alliance for Better Care CIC - Refugee and Asylum Seeker Service
  • Cheshire and Merseyside Provider Collaborative - Dermatology Clinical Alliance - Transforming Dermatology Skin Cancer Pathways Across Cheshire and Merseyside Through AI
  • Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospital Trust - From Fragmentation to Flow: A Five-Year Transformation of Young Adult Diabetes Care Through Personalised and Risk-Stratified Support
  • Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital - Spinal Assessment Service
  • Royal Devon University Healthcare FT - Transforming IBD Care: A Whole-System Redesign for Faster Diagnosis, Earlier Treatment and Better Outcomes for People Living with IBD

  • Royal Surrey FT - Enhanced Integrated Respiratory Service - Winter Capacity & Demand Project

    UCLPartners along with the North Central London Providers - Complex Long Term Conditions Service

  • University College London Hospitals FT & North Central London Cancer Alliance - ROCA: A New NHS Pathway for Ovarian Cancer Surveillance in BRCA Carriers
  • University Hospitals of Liverpool Group - IMPaCT North Palliative Care Virtual Ward
Data-Driven Transformation Award


Finalists:

  • Cheshire East Care Community Partnerships - A Proactive Neighbourhood Care Model Transforming Outcomes for most complex Residents
  • Hertfordshire Partnership University FT - Faster Access to Psychiatrists through data-driven and systematic quality improvement methodologies
  • Hinchingbrooke Hospital Redevelopment Modelling Team: North West Anglia FT, The Strategy Unit and NHP - Transforming Hinchingbrooke with OpenPlan
  • Manchester University FT, Greater Manchester & Manchester City Council - Care Closer to Home
  • NHS Cheshire & Merseyside ICB and Health Innovation North West Coast - Targeting Fuel Poverty to Improve Respiratory Outcomes
  • South London & Maudsley Trust - LUCI (Locating Useful Clinical Information) - advanced analytics for population mental health management
  • University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire Trust - UHCW and Proximie: A new tool for maximising theatre performance using ambient AI to help improve performance
  • West and North London ICB - GP Feedback & Alert System
  • Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh Teaching Hospitals FT - BetterLives - Transforming care and promoting independence
Digitising Patient Care Award

In association with


Finalists:

 

  • East of England Ambulance Service Trust - The Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Desk: A Clinician Led Model Using Video-Assisted CPR to Improve Rescuer / Bystander Resuscitation and System Efficiency
  • Kettering General Hospital FT - Beyond the Wards: A Digital Umbilical cord for Every Patient
  • Mid and South Essex FT - Transforming Maternity Engagement Through a Single Digital Front Door
  • NHS 111 Online - NHSE - Breast Diagnostics Self Referral Pathway
  • Northamptonshire ICB - Digital ReSPECT across Northamptonshire
  • Royal Devon University Healthcare FT - Cancer Care Companion: An innovative digital solutions delivering personalised care and support, patient choice and improved patient experience
  • Spectrum Community Health CIC - 63% Fewer Admissions, 100% More Dignity: Virtual Wards in Secure Environments Care Without Compromise
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital - Diabetes Optimisation prior to Cardiac Surgery using Digital Remote Glucose Monitoring
  • University Hospitals of Leicester Trust - OncsCare: A Proactive Digital Safety-Net Transforming Acute Oncology Care Between Treatment Cycles
Driving Efficiency through Technology Award

In association with


Finalists:

  • Barts Health - Transforming Cancer Follow‑Up Through Digital Remote Monitoring
  • Bristol FT - Robotic Process Automation for NHS Recruitment in Bristol
  • Kettering General Hospital FT - Delivering the Shortest Colorectal Stay: Harnessing Digital Assistance to Extend ERAS Beyond Hospital, Continuing Excellence from Surgery to Recovery
  • Midlands Partnership University FT - Integrated Referral Gateway: digital referrals, self-referral and eRS automation into EPR
  • North West London Collaboration - From pilot to platform: scaling OPTICA through supported implementation
  • Oxford University Hospitals FT - Optimising EPR Diagnostic Requesting and Endorsement: Streamlining End-to-End Digital Diagnostic Pathways for Safer, More Efficient Patient Care
  • South East London ICB, Oxleas FT & Royal Borough of Greenwich - Digital Health & Care Technology Service
  • University Hospitals Birmingham FT - Alfa® Controlled Drug Software
  • University Hospitals of Leicester Trust - Delivering meaningful efficency, value and safety improvements through ward based automated unit dose medicines management
Early Intervention and Prevention for Children, Young People and Families Award

In association with


Finalists: 

  • Brent Integrated Care Partnership - Commissioning a proactive approach to child health in Brent
  • Children North East - Little Minds in Mind
  • Compass Wellbeing CIC - Transforming Youth Mental Health through VCSE Partnerships and Early Intervention
  • Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust - Coventry and Warwickshire Trauma Informed Vanguard Project: Positive DIrections
  • Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board - PIPYN
  • Department of Health & Social Care - National Smoke-free Pregnancy Incentives Scheme
  • Feltham and Bedfont PCN - Proactive CYP Asthma Model
  • Humber FT - Core Needs Service
  • West London Trust - Reaching the Unreached: Link Workers Transforming Child Mental Health Access in Diverse Communities, Qi , West London NHS Trust
Excellence in Narrowing the Health Inequalities Gap

In association with


Finalists:

  • Alder Hey Children's FT - Improve my Life Chances: Alder Hey’s commitment to narrowing child health inequality
  • Burmantofts, Harehills & Richmond Hill (BHR) PCN, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, West Yorkshire ICB - BHR Women’s Health Hub (BHR WHH): A thriving neighbourhood health initiative delivering sustainable holistic improvements to women’s health
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria Cancer Alliance and Spring North - Early Diagnosis VCSFE Small Grants Scheme
  • Lewisham ICB and Lewisham PCNs - Reimagining personalised care: Co-designed Lifestyle Medicine interventions for Underserved Populations
  • Liverpool Women’s FT - Redesigning Patient Communication to Narrow Health Inequalities at Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust
  • London Ambulance Service Trust - Improving urgent & emergency care for patients with sickle cell disease and reducing health inequalities
  • Manchester FT - Addressing Inequalities in CVD diagnosis through local, VCFSE delivered NHS Health Checks
  • NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly ICB and Helpforce - Developing Cornwall’s Community Gateway and Hub Network as a blueprint for other systems
  • South London and Maudsley FT - Psychology in Hostels Project
HSJ Independent Healthcare Provider of the Year


Finalists:

  • Alliance Medical & Manchester University FT  - Collaboration at the Heart: Transforming Cardiac Diagnostics across Greater Manchester
  • InTouchNow.ai - Calling Time on the 8am Rush: Scalable Voice AI for NHS Primary Care
  • Orri & Sussex Partnership FT, Kent, Surrey and Sussex Adult Eating Disorder Provider Collaborative - Transforming Eating Disorder care through virtual innovation
  • Practice Plus Group Hospitals, Ophthalmology - Vision in the Community: Reducing Health Inequalities Through Mobile Ophthalmology
  • 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
HSJ Partnership of the Year


Finalists:

  • Eli Lilly & Company (Lilly UK) & Frimley ICB, now part of Thames Valley ICB - 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
  • Flok Health & Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust - An AI physiotherapy service in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough
  • Helpforce - Helpforce's Volunteer to Career
  • Kneu Health & Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust - Redesigning Parkinson's Care with Digital Innovation
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK & Gateshead Health FT - Holistic Prescribing in Secondary Prevention : Optimising outcomes using an innovative cardio-renal-metabolic service
  • Primary Care 24 North Park Practice & Light for Life - Transforming Access to Healthcare for Homeless and Vulnerable Patients in Sefton
  • Prism Improvement  & Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University FT - Emergency Care Improvement Programme with Wythenshawe Hospital
  • Quantium Health & Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust - AI Innovation in Patient Experience
  • Ramsay Health Care UK & York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals FT - Collaborative Insourcing to Expand NHS Orthopaedic Capacity in York
  • Severn Wye Energy Agency & NHS Gloucestershire ICB, with Gloucestershire County Council - Warmth on Prescription / NHS Retrofit
  • Sewell Advisory & NHS South Yorkshire ICB - South Yorkshire Primary Care Capital Programme
  • Solventum & The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals FT - Transforming venous thromboembolism care with AI: the Follow-up Finder project
Medicines, Pharmacy and Prescribing Initiative of the Year


Finalists:

  • Barts Health Trust, UCLPartners, NEL Local Pharmaceutical Committee & ICB, HEART UK and NHS England - Bridging the Prevention Gap: Cardiovascular Risk Assessments in Community Pharmacies
  • Health Innovation Network - Preventing Problematic Polypharmacy: Getting the balance right
  • Kent and Medway Mental Health Trust - Transforming psychotropic prescribing for people with intellectual disabilities and autism through system-wide STOMP/STAMP implementation, education, and integrated care collaboration
  • London Ambulance Service Trust - The road to 999 prescribing – APP-UC prescribing in the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
  • London North West University Healthcare Trust - Building a sustainable medicines CIP and transformation programme at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
  • MedSIP Team in collaboration with HIN Patient Safety Collaboratives, NHSBSA, ICSs and Lived Experience Partners - From “prescribing problem” to a whole-system approach - improving chronic pain management to reduce opioid harm across England
  • NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB and Bristol FT - Putting stoma prescribing in the hands of experts: a specialist led prescribing model to improve patient care and deliver efficiencies
  • NHS South East London ICB - Integrated Neighbourhood Community Pharmacy Prescribing for Better Hypertension Outcomes
  • Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB - Reducing Harm from Inappropriate Opioid Prescribing
Mental Health Innovation of the Year


Finalists:

  • Changing Futures Surrey - Bridge the Gap
  • East of England Provider Collaborative - Reducing inpatient care in Adult Eating Disorders through regional alternatives to admission
  • Getting It Right First Time Mental Health Team: NHS England - Men-SAT: Transforming Urgent and Emergency Mental Health Care Through Whole-System Improvement
  • Islington GP Federation - Severe Mental Illness (SMI) Service
  • Leicestershire Partnership Trust - The UK’s first at-home neuromodulation pathway for patients in crisis
  • NHSE London, West London Trust, King's College Hospital,  St George’s University Hospitals, Barts Health Trust and Imperial College Healthcare Trust - Pan London Major Trauma Psychology Network
  • Oxford Health FT and HOPE Thames Valley Adult Eating Disorders Provider Collaborative - Integrated Step Care: Bringing Intensive Specialist Eating Disorder Treatment Home
  • Sussex Primary Care Provider Collaborative, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Sussex ICB - ADHD Primary Care Connect: bringing specialist-led ADHD assessment into local primary care
  • Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys FT in partnership with Primary-Care, VCSE and LAs - Transforming Community Mental Health Through Neighbourhood Models and Integrated Primary Care Partnerships
Modernising Diagnostics Award

In association with


Finalists: 

  • Cambridge University Hospitals - Transforming access to solid tumour whole genome sequencing through a room-temperature NHS network pathway
  • Dudley Group FT - Closing the Loop on Outpatient Diagnostic Results: A Paper-to-Digital Pilot - Compass Results Acknowledgement Pilot
  • Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals Group & Lincolnshire ICB - Reducing health inequalities and improving access to chest pain assessment; a novel one stop chest pain pathway The Lincolnshire experience
  • Royal Free London FT - Closer, faster, smarter: Transforming endoscopy through community-based trans-nasal endoscopy
  • Sherwood Forest Hospitals FT - Modernisation of Sleep
  • The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust - TRIOMIC: Transforming Colorectal Diagnostics Through CDC Innovation
  • University Hospitals of Derby and Burton - Modernising Paediatric Chest X-ray Pathways: Reducing Low-Value Imaging in Children with Lower Respiratory Tract Infection
  • West Midlands Cancer Alliance - Bridging the Gap: Rapid System Collaboration to Sustain Equitable Access to ctDNA Testing Across the West Midlands
Neighbourhood and Community Care Innovation of the Year

In association with


Finalists: 

  • Brownlow Health - Neighbourhood Healthcare
  • Cardiff and Vale University Health Board - Reducing Variation, Improving Outcomes: Redesigning Respiratory Diagnostic Pathways through Community-based Spirometry hubs
  • Keech Hospice, Sue Ryder St Johns Hospice, Bedfordshire NHS colleagues, Primary Care Acute and Community - Bedfordshire palliative coordination service
  • Lincolnshire Partnership FT in partnership with Lincolnshire ICB - Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Hubs and Community Connector provision
  • Liverpool John Moores University - Community cardiovascular testing collaborative: expanding prevention capacity through primary care, local government and academia
  • NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly ICB and Helpforce - Developing Cornwall’s Community Gateway and Hub Network as a blueprint for other systems
  • Northamptonshire Healthcare FT - Corby Diagnostic Centre Memory Assessment Transformation
  • Rainbow Foundation with Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and Partners - Age-Friendly Neighbourhood Care: Keeping Older People Well at Home
  • Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys FT in partnership with Primary-Care, VCSE and LAs - Transforming Community Mental Health Through Neighbourhood Models and Integrated Primary Care Partnerships
NHS Communications Initiative of the Year Award


Finalists:

  • Bristol FT, Bristol Rovers & SWAG Cancer Alliance - Prostate Cancer Awareness Month - The John Green Campaign
  • Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board - It Takes a Village: A Community-Led Approach to Winter Vaccination Communications
  • DHSC and NHS Horizons - AI Ambassador Network
  • King's College Hospital FT - "Choose Wisely, Test Smartly" - communicating our pathology optimisation campaign
  • NHS East London FT and University of Bristol - 'Sensory': using a behaviour-change film to improve autistic peoples' experience of hospitals
  • NHS England - Transforming NHS Public Health Communication Through Accessible Video
  • South East London Cancer Alliance - Changing Minds, Earlier Diagnosis: Increasing Lung Cancer Screening Uptake in South East London
  • South East Smokefree Alliance - Stop Smoking, Feel Happier
  • Walsall Healthcare Trust - Little Voices
NHS Race Equality Award

In association with


Finalists: 

  • Berkshire Healthcare FT - Unity Against Racism: Embedding Anti‑Racism Through Leadership, Lived Experience and Accountability
  • Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust - Embedding Anti Racism Across a Mental Health Trust
  • East London FT - Faith Adapted Therapies Project for Muslims in Newham
  • Greater Manchester Mental Health - Race, Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage (REACH)
  • Lewisham and Greenwich Trust - Acute Sickle Cell Unit
  • Medway FT, NHS Kent and Medway & NHS SE - The Jaundice in Darker Skin Tone Babies Programme: Addressing Inequalities in Neonatal Jaundice Recognition Through Co-production, Education and Partnership
  • SWL St Georges Mental Health Trust - Building a Culturally Capable Workforce
  • The North West Inclusive Pharmacy Practice Steering Group - A Coalition of Pharmacy Organisations - Leading Together: Race Equality at Scale in Northwest Pharmacy
  • Woodgrange NHS Medical Practice - Educate To Vaccinate, Beyond The Jab: Addressing Racial and Ethnic Barriers To Health and Vaccination At Woodgrange
Patient Safety Award

In association with


Finalists:

  • Dudley Group FT - Right Investigation, Right Patient, Right Time: Modernising Diagnostics with CDS iRefer
  • Health Innovation Manchester and NHS Greater Manchester - Managing Patient Safety at Scale: The GM Care Record’s System-Wide Clinical Safety Model
  • Health Innovation Networks and ODNs from West/East Midlands, ICBs, Trusts and NHSE - Delivering Martha’s Rule at scale: Empowering escalation to transform patient safety across the Midlands
  • Hertfordshire Partnership FT - Embedding Safety on Learning Disability Assessment and Teatment Wards
  • London Health and Justice Learning Hub - Learning and improving safety in collaboration across the health and justice system in London
  • Somerset FT - Catheter Care at Somerset FT
  • Southern Health and Social Care Trust - Reducing the Risk of Self Harm through the use of Ligatures
  • Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB - Reducing Harm from Inappropriate Opioid Prescribing
  • Swansea Bay University Health Board - Strengthening Psychological Safety and Speaking Up in Maternity Care
Performance Recovery Award

In association with


Finalists: 

  • Homerton Healthcare FT - From Data to Delivery: Homerton's System-Wide RTT Transformation 2025–26
  • King's College Hospital FT - Outpatients Reimagined: Hospital without Walls
  • NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight - From backlog to breakthrough: achieving the 28-day Continuing Healthcare standard for the first time
  • NHS Kent and Medway ICB - Winter-Ready Workforce: A System-Wide Recovery of Workforce Flu Uptake Through Data, Insight and Relentless Collaboration
  • North Manchester Clinical Group & Manchester Unviersity Hospitals FT - Ambulance Handover and Turnaround Improvement Programme
  • Oxleas FT - Embedding Sustainable Change after Inspection using a Value Management approach
  • Royal Free London FT - How We Delivered England’s Most Improved Cancer Performance
  • Salford City Council Public Health, Salford Integrated Care Partnership & NHS Greater Manchester - Harnessing integrated system partnership working to recover NHS Health Checks performance in Salford
  • The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust - Multi-disciplinary leadership accelerating transformation for patients
Primary Care Provider of the Year


Finalists:

  • Deben Health Group PCN - A PCN Built for Transformation Under Pressure
  • Feltham and Bedfont PCN - FaB Transformation: From reactive to proactive care at scale
  • Islington GP Federation - Reimagining Primary Care: A System-Leading Model for Access, Equity and Sustainability in Islington
  • Kineton &Tysoe Surgery - Delivering the Rural Practice of the Future
  • Penrose Health, NHS GP Group & South East London - A Replicable Model for At-Scale Primary Care: Proactive, Digital, and Community-Centred
  • Salford North Primary Care Alliance - Delivering Integrated, Preventative and Community-Centred Neighbourhood Healthcare Across Salford North
  • Stonecot Surgery - Long Term Condition Workflow Management
  • Thistlemoor Smiles Centre & Thistlemoor Medical Centre - From Dental Desert to Oasis: Integrating an Innovative Dental Service Into Our Neighbourhood
  • Willesden Green Surgery - The Neighbourhood Left Shift: Data-Driven Prevention and NHS-First Ultrasound-Guided Hand Surgery in One of England's Most Deprived Communities
Provider Collaboration of the Year


Finalists:

  • East Midlands Acute Provider Collaborative - EMAP - Digital Design Collaborative
  • Health Innovation Networks and ODNs from West/East Midlands, ICBs, Trusts and NHSE - Delivering Martha’s Rule at scale: Empowering escalation to transform patient safety across the Midlands
  • Lambeth IHN - Lambeth Integrated Health Network
  • NHS England & NHS Blood and Transplant - UK Plasma for Medicines
  • NHS Greater Manchester ICB, Pennine Care FT & Greater Manchester Mental Health FT - Care Closer, Care Smarter: Transforming Mental Health Flow in Greater Manchester
  • Oxford University Hospitals and Sobell House Hospice Charity - Oxford Metastatic Intervention Team- a new metastatic bone disease service
  • South East London ENT Partnership: NHS SEL ICS, Communitas Clinics, LGT, GSTT and King's College - South East London ENT Care Model: A system-wide provider collaboration delivering integrated, patient-centred care at scale
  • South Western Ambulance Service FT - Timely Handover Process - Provider Collaboration
  • Sussex Partnership FT - Southern Counties Child and Adolescent Mental Health Provider Collaborative
Staff Wellbeing and Culture Award


Finalists:

  • East Sussex Healthcare Trust - Anyone can Ally - From Listening to Lasting Change
  • London North West University Healthcare Trust & University of West London - Caring for Those Who Care: Restorative Clinical Supervision in Critical Care Postgraduate Education
  • Norfolk and Suffolk FT - Improving Culture at NSFT
  • Oxford University Hospitals FT - OUH Staff Cycling Initiative
  • Salisbury FT - Licence to Manage
  • South West Ambulance Service FT - Staying Well Hub: A Whole-System Transformation of Workforce Wellbeing in a High-Pressure NHS Service
  • University College London Hospitals - POWER - PeriOperative Workforce Education and Resilience
  • University Hospitals of Derby and Burton - The Right to Care Safely Campaign
Towards Net Zero Award


Finalists:

  • Central London Community Healthcare Trust - Embedding Sustainability in Community Healthcare Through the Decarbonisation of Langley House Community Hospital
  • Countess of Chester Hospital FT - From RAAC Risk to Net Zero: Delivering the First NHS Net Zero Carbon Building Standard Hospital
  • Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board - Second Life Scrubs: Reusable Theatre Hats
  • Gloucestershire Hospitals FT - Greenhand: Sustainable Carpal Tunnel Care
  • London and South East Burns Network - LSEBN Green team
  • Oxford University Hospitals FT - Changing Culture, Cutting Carbon: A Multi-Site Green Nephrology Programme Across the Oxford Kidney Unit
  • Somerset FT - Pee-in-Pot (PiP)
  • Sussex Community FT - Care Without Carbon
  • University College London Hospitals FT - Reducing nitrous oxide administration in dental sedation
Transforming Care for Older People Award


Finalists:

  • Bedfordshire Hospitals FT, East of England Community Trust, East London FT, East of England Ambulance Service - An Unscheduled Community Care Hub Built on Frailty Expertise
  • Buckinghamshire Place Based Partnership - Proactive Frailty Care Clinics
  • NHS Elect - Scaling Up POPS: Improving Perioperative Care for Older People Undergoing Surgery
  • NHS Humber Health Partnership - Frailty SDEC, Hull Royal Infirmary - Transforming the Frailty Pathway
  • Nimbuscare - The Community Frailty Hub
  • Rainbow Foundation with Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and partners - Age-Friendly Neighbourhood Care: Keeping Older People Well at Home
  • South Warwickshire University FT - Call before Convey Overnight
  • Sutton Health and Care - Transforming Patient Flow and Functional Outcomes for Older Adults Through Intensive Reablement Care
  • Tameside and Glossop ICFT - The Blended Roles Programme
Trust of the Year

In association with


Finalists: 

  • Barts Health Trust - Trust of the Year
  • Humber Teaching FT - Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust - a journey of staff wellbeing and clinical excellence
  • Imperial College Healthcare Trust - Trust of the Year
  • North Bristol Trust (now part of Bristol NHS FT) - North Bristol NHS Trust - Delivering world-class excellence
  • Northamptonshire Healthcare FT - Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
  • Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber FT - Nurturing the power in our communities
  • South Western Ambulance Service FT - Trust of the Year 2026 - SWASFT
  • The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust - Moving to Excellence
  • West London Trust - People, Partnership and Continuous Improvement: A Trust-Wide Culture of Co-Produced Improvement
Using AI to Enhance Care Quality and Efficiency Award

In association with


Finalists: 

  • Barts Health Trust - City of London, London - Copilot-Enabled Complaints Handling: From 60% to 97% On Time, With the Tools We Already Had
  • Cheshire and Merseyside Provider Collaborative - Dermatology Clinical Alliance - Transforming Dermatology Skin Cancer Pathways Across Cheshire and Merseyside Through AI
  • George Eliot Hospital Trust - Safer, Faster, Smarter: AI‑Driven Fracture Detection Improving Patient Safety Across ED Pathways
  • Kent Community Health FT - Bank APA
  • NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight - From backlog to breakthrough: trusted, governed AI embedded in CHC practice
  • North Cumbria Inegrated Care FT (NCIC) - How AI Transformed Wound Care and Patient Outcomes in NCIC
  • Royal Devon University Hospitals - Using Ambient Voice Technology to Support Outpatient Care
  • South West Yorkshire Partnership FT - Kirklees and Barnsley NHS Talking Therapies
  • Walsall Healthcare Trust - Time to Care - AVT in Emergency Medicine
Workforce Initiative of the Year


Finalists:

  • Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals FT - AHP Safer Staffing: The right staff, with the right skills, in the right place, at the right time
  • Imperial College Healthcare Trust - Getting into Medicine: Work Experience Programme
  • Leeds Health and Care Academy - Talent Hub
  • Leicester Leicestershire and Rutland ICB & LLR Academy - Developing Diverse Leadership
  • NHS Birmingham and Solihull ICB (BSOL) - BSol 4Rs Workforce Programme
  • NHS Greater Manchester - Greater Manchester T Level Health & Care Industry Placement Programme
  • North Central London Cancer Alliance - Macmillan Cancer CNS Development Lead Pilot
  • South Yorkshire Primary Care Workforce and Training Hub - Transforming The Primary Care Workforce
  • University College London Hospitals - POWER - PeriOperative Workforce Education and Resillience