Winners 2022

Click the categories below to view the winners and finalists.

Acute Sector Innovation of the Year

Award Partner

WINNER:  Barts Heart Centre and Glenfield Hospital, Early Discharge After AMI Pathway

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  South West Ambulatory Orthopaedic Centre, A revolutionary collaborative approach to delivering orthopaedic surgery and tackling the backlog

Finalists:

• Alder Hey Children's FT, BrillianSee Transparent Facemask
• Centre for Sustainable Delivery, Cytosponge introduction into NHS Scotland
• Portsmouth Hospitals University Trust, Family Liaison Officers
• Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals Trust, EPICENTRE - Emergency Point Of Care Testing and Treatment without Transfer to Hospital
• South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre, Elective Orthopaedic Re-shape and Recovery, through a culture of innovation, an integrated team ethos and a passion for patient care
• University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust, Restructuring emergency eye services during Covid in a tertiary referral centre

Clinical Leader of the Year

WINNER:  Professor Simon Conroy, Clinical Lead, NHS Elect, Acute Frailty Network

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Waqas Akhtar, Chief Registrar, ST10 in Cardiology and Intensive Care, RCP Associate College Tutor, London Regional TROD, Founder and Director of Mechanical Life Support, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, Part of Guy's and St Thomas' FT

Finalists:

• Thangadorai Amalesh, Divisional Director of Surgery and Chair – Surgical Optimisation Group, Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust and NEL ICB
• Ellen Armistead, Executive Director of Nursing and Deputy Chief Executive, Calderdale and Huddersfield FT
• Dr Amit Arora, Regional Clinical Director, Emergency Care Improvement Support Team, University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust and Emergency Care Improvement Support Team and NHS England
• Dr Michael McCabe, Consultant Anaesthetist, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust
• Dr Indermeet Sawhney, Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director, Hertfordshire Partnership University FT
• Dr Subodh Tote, Anaesthetist and Intensive Care Lead, Frimley Health FT
• Dr Eddie O'Neill, Director COVID Certification Service, Department of Health, Digital Health & Care NI

Covid Vaccination Programme Award

WINNER:  Morris House Group Practice, Vaccine Centre

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICS, Covid Vaccination Team

Finalists:

• Cambridgeshire & Peterborough ICS, Vaccinators on Tour
• Integrated Care Northamptonshire, Covid Vaccination Service
• Nimbuscare, Local and Regional Covid Vaccination Programme in York
• North Lincolnshire Health & Care Partnership, North Lincolnshire Vaccination Programme
• Solent Trust, Vaccination Programme
• The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals FT, North East and North Cumbria Covid Vaccination Programme
• University Hospitals Plymouth Trust, Covid Vaccination Programme

Digitising Patient Care Award

Award Partner

WINNER:  Imperial College Healthcare Trust and North West London ICS, Pathway Improvement Project

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals FT, 24/7 Virtual Ward

Finalists:

• Barts Health Trust, Digital Pain Service
• Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, Life Sciences Hub Wales and Huma Therapeutics, Digital-first cardiac care using remote patient monitoring
• Dorset ICS, BP@Home
• Midlands Partnership FT, The Sandbox CYP Digital Mental Health Support
• Moorfields Eye Hospital FT, Virtual A&E
• Phase B, Kent & Medway Prehab
• University College London Hospitals FT, INFORM_us Hub

Driving Efficiency through Technology Award

WINNER:  Integrated Care Northamptonshire, Point of Care Testing

Finalists:

• Derbyshire Community Health Services FT, Improve efficiency and service delivery in Referral/Triage automation
• Glenfield Hospital and Barts Heart Centre, Technology Enabled Early Discharge STEMI Pathways
• Imperial College Healthcare Trust , Paper-free project
• NHS Digital, Streaming & Redirection
• North West Ambulance Service Trust, Building a Smart, Connected Ambulance Station
• Provide CIC, Digital Enhancements for Integrated Care Teams
• Somerset FT and Infinity Health, Banishing the bleep out of hours: saving 90 minutes of clinical time per person per shift
• University Hospitals of Northamptonshire Group, Transforming Productivity Through Robotic Process Automation

Freedom to Speak Up Award

Award Partner

WINNER:  Sussex Community FT, Caring for Speak Up Ambassadors - Improving our Speak Up culture

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Oxford University Hospitals FT, OUH Freedom to Speak Up Review

Finalists:

• Bradford Teaching Hospitals FT, Freedom to Speak Up during the Covid pandemic
• Homerton Healthcare FT, Supporting our people through the pressure of a pandemic
• Lancashire & South Cumbria FT, Freedom to Speak Up
• Royal United Hospitals Bath FT, Acknowledging that culture needs to change
• Sherwood Forest Hospitals FT, Growing Our Freedom To Speak Up Culture at #TeamSFH
• Whittington Health Trust, See ME First

HSJ Partnership Award

WINNER:  GM Active CIC and GM Cancer Alliance, Greater Manchester Prehab4Cancer and recovery programme

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  AstraZeneca, Yorkshire & Humber Academic Health Science Network and Hull University Teaching Hospitals Trust, Reducing the carbon footprint of asthma inhalers

Finalists:

• Bond Solon, Capita and NHS England, Ensuring Safeguarding is Core Business throughout the NHS
• Faculty and NHS England, Applying AI to create a Covid Early Warning System to predict demand for services in a pandemic
• Genmed and South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre, A partnership delivering additional capacity, technology and value through surgery managed services
• Induction Healthcare and Moorfields Eye Hospital FT, Virtual A&E
• Kaleidoscope Health and Care, Edge Health and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough STP, Establishing digital diabetes care services in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Kyowa Kirin, Addressing Alcohol Misuse through Education and Partnership
• L&R Medical and South West Yorkshire Partnership FT, Reducing the burden of wounds through workforce optimisation
• Medefer & Isle of Wight Trust, Clinically assessing and mitigating risk for outpatient backlogs - A proactive Covid recovery initiative
• Oviva and Barking and Dagenham ICB, Reducing Variation of Care and Outcomes particularly as it relates to Socioeconomic, Cultural or Racial Determinants
• Patchwork Health and St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals Trust, Establishing the North West Collaborative Bank - the largest in the UK
• Proud2bOps and NHS Operational Leaders, Energising, Connecting, Supporting and Developing Operational Leaders
• Qbtech and AHSN Network, Focus ADHD
• Whzan Digital Health and North Central London ICB, Empowering Care Homes with Digital Health Technology

Innovation and Improvement in Reducing Healthcare Inequalities Award

Award Partner

  

WINNER:  University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust, Waiting list Access and Inequalities Tool

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Hertfordshire Partnership University FT, Physical health checks for people with learning disabilities

Finalists:

• Alder Hey Children's FT, Bronchiolitis Parent Champions in the Community
• City and Hackney PBP, North East London ICB and The Advocacy Project, East London FT, What Matters To Me: Using Personal Health Budgets for Mental Health Recovery
• Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust, Maternity Cultural Transformation Group
• Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICS, Tackling Inequalities through Covid vaccination.
• Lancashire & South Cumbria FT and Partners, Long Covid Service journey
• North Central London ICS, Haringey Great Mental Health Programme
• OneNorwich Practices, Asthma in Schools Project

Integrated Care System of the Year

Award Partner

  

WINNER:  West Yorkshire ICS, Making a collective difference to people’s lives, improving quality and efficiency of services

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership, Mental Health programme, focusing on maternal mental health/ integrated care framework for children and young people

Finalists:

• Dorset ICS, Medical Examiner Programme
• Dorset ICS and Arts University Bournemouth, Think Big
• Mid and South Essex ICS, Connect
• Northern Lincolnshire & Goole FT and Local System Partners, Patient Discharge Improvement
• Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICS, Integration through ambition, determination and action

Mental Health Innovation of the Year

Award Partner

  

WINNER:  Cheshire and Wirral Partnership FT, Dynamic Support Database - Clinical Support Tool

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Leeds and York Partnership FT, Red Kite View

Finalists:

• City and Hackney PBP, North East London ICB, East London FT, Homerton Healthcare FT, Alzheimer's Society, London Borough of Hackney and City of London Corporation, An Alliance Model of Dementia Care from diagnosis to end of life
• East London FT, Rough Sleeping Adults Mental Health Project
• Forward Thinking Birmingham and Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity, Fight For All The Feels
• Greater Manchester Mental Health FT, Start, Mind in Salford, Six Degrees, Greater Manchester ICP, Salford Council and Salford CVS, Living Well Salford
• Lancashire & South Cumbria FT, Change Talks
• North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust, North East and North Cumbria Suicide Prevention Network and 4 Mental Health, Connecting with People and SAFETool
• South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board - Doncaster Team, Mental Health Crisis Alternatives

Military and Civilian Health Partnership Award

Award Partner

  

WINNER:  Imperial College Healthcare Trust and NHS England, Veterans Trauma Network

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Joint Hospital Group South and Portsmouth Hospitals University Trust, Changing from comfortable partnership to a mutually beneficial dynamic, responsive partnership which benefits patients and staff in NHS and deployment

Finalists:

• East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, Armed Forces Veteran Project
• North East and North Cumbria ICS Mental Health Programme, Veterans Mental Health Network
• Royal College of General Practitioners, Veteran-friendly practice accreditation programme
• University of Chester, Westminster Centre for Research in Veterans

NHS Communications Initiative of the Year Award

WINNER:  West Yorkshire ICS, #RootOutRacism (Anti-Racism Movement)

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Humber Teaching FT,  A 'Humbelievable' Recruitment Campaign

Finalists:

• King's College Hospital FT, Maternity Parent Education Online
• NHS England - London Region, "Got A Problem?" Increasing Covid vaccine uptake among 18-25 year old Londoners from ethnic minority backgrounds
• NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care, Never Quit Quitting campaign
• Prostate Cancer UK and the NHS Cancer Programme, Find the 14,000 Men
• South West London ICB, Targeted pharmacy footfall tracking campaign
• The Dudley Group FT, Engaging staff for a better future: NHS Staff Survey
• UK Health Security Agency, Technical Briefings

NHS Race Equality Award

Award Partner

WINNER:  Turning The Tide Oversight Group, Equity in career development, opportunity and well-being

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Chief Nursing Officer & Chief Midwifery Officers Black and Minority Ethnic Strategic Advisory Group, NHS England, Emergency Covid Response: Focus on Workforce Experiences

Finalists:

• Arden and Gem CSU and The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals FT, Maximising Your Potential - Leadership Development Programme
• Barnardo's, Public Health Respiratory Support for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Families
• Guy's and St Thomas' FT, Kofoworola Abeni Pratt Fellowship
• King's College Hospital FT, Equitable Care for All Ethnicities at the end-of-life project
• Midlands Leadership and Lifelong Learning Team, NHS England, Primary Care BAME Women Sponsorship Programme
• NHS England (Midlands), Midlands Leadership and Lifelong Learning Academy, Midlands CNO & CMidO Ethnic Minority Expert Reference Group & CNO & CMidO BME Strategic Advisory Group Regional representative, Developing Aspirant Ethnic Minority Leaders Programme
• Whittington Health Trust, See ME First

Patient Safety Award

 Award Partner

WINNER:  Kent Community Health FT, Medicines Optimisation in Special Schools

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Somerset FT, Setting up a social care training team to improve patient safety and experience

Finalists:

• Alder Hey Children's FT, BrillianSee Transparent Facemask
• Blackpool Teaching Hospitals FT, Eliminating Pressure Ulcers during Covid
• Lancashire & South Cumbria FT, Moving to a Least Restrictive Culture
• Mid and South Essex FT, Reducing hypoxic brain injuries at birth by innovative Physiological Interpretation of Cardiotocograph
• National Clinical Engineers Network, Building a Clinical Engineering Network across the UK, breaking boundaries and keeping patients safe
• NHS Elect, Acute Frailty Network, Supporting older people living with frailty to get home sooner and healthier
• North West Ambulance Service Trust, Ambulance Handover Improvement – Continuing against all odds and sustaining the gain

Performance Recovery Award

WINNER:  Children’s Hospital Alliance, National Paediatric Accelerator: Recovery Programme

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Dorset ICS, Outpatient Assessment Centres @ Dorset Health Village - Dorset's "Think Big" Recovery Programme

Finalists:

• Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust, Elective Recovery
• Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership, Technology and Relationships Improving Flow
• Croydon Health Services Trust, A vision of ambition and innovation to recover elective services for patients and our staff
• Gateshead Health FT, Breast Services - Service Line Structure to Deliver Sustainable Performance Recovery
• Hepatitis C DTS Provider Forum, Hepatitis C Virus Screening in Drug Treatment Services
• Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust, A new era of MTW Endoscopy
• Midlands Partnership FT, Staffordshire Community Dental Service - Paediatric General Anaesthetic Service

Place-based Partnership Award

WINNER:  City and Hackney PBP, North East London ICB, East London FT, Homerton Healthcare FT, Alzheimer's Society, London Borough of Hackney and City of London Corporation, An Alliance Model of Dementia Care from diagnosis to end of life

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  North Middlesex University Hospital Trust, Haringey Local Authority, Enfield Local Authority, AgeUK Enfield, Enfield Connections Riverside Enfield and Enfield Carers, Community Advice Hub

Finalists:

• Fast-Track Cities London, Working towards zero HIV in London through an improvement community partnership
• Manchester University FT, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Greater Manchester Children's Rehabilitation Project: Major Trauma School Reintegration Service
• Mid and South Essex FT, Anchoring the Southend 2050 Ambition
• One Northern Devon, A Place-based, Person-Centred, System Partnership
• OneNorwich Practices, Living Well Team
• South and West Hertfordshire Health and Care Partnership, An Integrated Virtual Hospital
• University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust, Integrated MSK Pathway

Primary and Community Care Innovation of the Year

WINNER:  Imperial College Healthcare Trust and North West London ICS, The power of collaboration: revolutionising heart failure care through digital innovation and transformed care pathways

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  East Midlands Mastalgia Pathway Implementation Team, Mastalgia Pathway - East Midlands Transformation model

Finalists:

• Black Country ICB, Primary Care RSV and Paediatric Hub
• Evelina London part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ FT, King’s College Hospital FT, King’s College London, South East London ICB, Lambeth Council, Southwark Council, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity, South London and Maudsley FT and Lambeth and Southwark GP Federations, Children & Young People's Health Partnership
• Kent and Medway ICS (A partnership between Thanet CIC, Thanet GP Practices and Kent Community Health FT), Thanet Acute Response Team
• Lancashire & South Cumbria FT, NW PCNs, NW ICSs, Health Education England North West, University of Central Lancashire and NWC Innovation Agency, Delivering an Innovative Mental Health Prevention & Promotion service in Primary Care Networks with a new workforce, the ‘Associate Psychological Practitioners’
• Lincolnshire ICB, Lincolnshire Cooperative Pharmacy and Healthy.io, Releasing workforce pressure – Digitally-enabled UTI Test & Treat in Community Pharmacy
• NTH Solutions, a subsidiary of North Tees and Hartlepool FT, The Community Kit Bag
• UCLPartners, Proactive Care Frameworks

Primary and Community Care Provider of the Year

Award Partner

WINNER:  Primary Care Sheffield

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Haringey GP Federation

Finalists:

• Humber Teaching FT
• Isle of Wight Trust 
• Kent and Medway ICS (A partnership between Thanet CIC, Thanet GP Practices and Kent Community Health FT)
• Miriam Primary Care Group
• Modality Partnership
• Northumbria Primary Care

Provider Collaboration of the Year

WINNER:  North Central and East London Provider Collaborative, Commissioning and Providing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Services

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  West Yorkshire Vascular Service, Providing a single, shared vascular service

Finalists:

• East London FT, Essex Partnership University FT and Sheffield Health and Social Care FT, Clinical Associate in Psychology: An apprenticeship model for a future sustainable and diverse psychology workforce
• Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership and  Midlands and Lancashire CSU, Smoking cessation transfer of care from hospital to community pharmacy pilot
• Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System - Hampshire Hospitals FT, Isle of Wight Trust, Portsmouth Hospitals University Trust, Solent Trust, Southern Health FT and University Hospitals Southampton FT, Hampshire and Isle of Wight People and OD Collaborative
• Integrated Care Northamptonshire, The iCAN Programme
• North Thames Genomic Laboratory Hub, Transforming Standard of Care Diagnostics for Paediatric Blood Cancers
• South Tees Hospitals FT, North of England Quaternary Collaborative Per Oral Endoscopic Myotomy service for achalasia with establishment of multi disciplinary team
• South West Provider Collaborative and Lead Provider Devon Partnership Trust, To transform outcomes for people with mental health conditions by working collaboratively, at-scale

Staff Wellbeing Award

WINNER:  Chief Nursing Officer & Chief Midwifery Officers Black and Minority Ethnic Strategic Advisory Group, NHS England, Emergency Covid response: focus on BME Workforce experiences

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Birmingham Women's and Children's FT, Employer with Heart - A new approach to miscarriage and premature parenting in the workforce

Finalists:

• Here, Creating exceptional care, for everyone through wellness, learning and focusing on what matters
• Lancashire & South Cumbria FT, Enhancing the Wellbeing Offer within LSCft
• Leeds Community Healthcare Trust, LCH Your Health and Wellbeing - Caring for each other Staff Facebook Group
• Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital FT, Improving Culture and Wellbeing: Be Civil, Be Kind
• NHS England - London Region, Talent Management Support Networks
• North Bristol Trust , Resilience is between us, not just within us – Staff Psychology Team
• The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital FT, Staff Wellbeing

System Led Support for Carers Award

Award Partner

WINNER:  Northamptonshire Carers, Carers as Equal and Expert Partners in Care

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Surrey Heartlands ICS, No carer should care alone

Finalists:

• Carers Support, Sussex Integrated Programme for Carers
• Mobilise, Shropshire Council and West Midlands ADASS, Online identification and support for carers
• n-compass, Lancashire Carers Service Partnership and Engagement Team

Towards Net Zero Award

Award Partner

WINNER:  The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals FT, Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine)

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust, Saving Lives with Solar

Finalists:

• Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership, Greener FootPRINT Project
• Hull University Teaching Hospitals Trust, Bold ambitions: The Zero30 Green Plan
• London Ambulance Service Trust, Bicycle Team & other Zero Emissions Innovations
• Manchester University FT, Medicine Decarbonisation
• Nottinghamshire Healthcare FT, Our Journey to Net Zero
• Swansea Bay University Health Board, Our Low Carbon Journey
• The Hillingdon Hospitals FT, Fast Forward Sustainability

Trust of the Year

Award Partner

WINNER:  North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  University College London Hospitals FT

Finalists:

• Derbyshire Healthcare FT 
• East London FT 
• Imperial College Healthcare Trust 
• Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital FT 
• Northamptonshire Healthcare FT
• The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn FT 
• University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust

Using Data to Connect Services Award

Award Partner

WINNER:  Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Health and Care Partnership, Digitising care for children with complex epilepsy

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Cheshire and Merseyside ICS and One Liverpool Partnership, Closing the Data-Action-Gap for Better Health and Care: A Civic Blueprint

Finalists:

• Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust, North East London ICB, North East London FT and NEC Rego, North East London MSK Alliance - Digital Referral Rego
• Dorset ICS, Transforming COPD patient experience through data and digital initiative
• South London and Maudsley FT and ReStart, Interoperability of data to support Mental Health Innovation
• South Tees Hospitals FT, Cancer Pathway Improvements through Auto-Tracking, Auto-Sequencing and Collaborative Reviews
• The Rotherham FT, Taking a holistic approach to overhauling real-time patient flow

Workforce Initiative of the Year

Award Partner

WINNER:  East London FT, Essex Partnership University FT and Sheffield Health and Social Care FT, Clinical Associate in Psychology: An apprenticeship model for a future sustainable and diverse psychology workforce

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Modality Partnership, Thinking Outside the Box

Finalists:

• Birmingham and Solihull ICS, 'I Can' Programme
• Connecting Futures Collaborative, A Regional Refugee Doctor Programme
• Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board, LAMP Programme
• Lancashire Teaching Hospitals FT, Medical Intern Project
• NHS England, RefuAid, Talent Beyond Boundaries, Liverpool John Moores University and Partners, Refugee Nursing Support Programme
• Northern Care Alliance FT, Planning for the Future
• West London Trust , CAMHS Training and Progression Programme