Shortlist 2024

Click on the tabs below to reveal the shortlisted NHS teams and projects per category.

Connecting Health and Social Care through Digital
  • Great North Care Record - Bringing together the North East and North Cumbria's health and social care 
  • Hertfordshire & West Essex ICS - The Hertfordshire and West Essex Shared Care Record enabled by 'My Care Record': a regional, collaborative approach to improving care by joining up information
  • Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB - NHS Careers Northwest Website & ASPIRE E-Learning
  • Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland ICB on behalf of LLR ICS  - Releasing capacity for care: The Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) Care Record.
  • Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland ICS - Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Connected Care Programme
  • NHS England North West Widening Participation, Careers & Apprenticeship Team and Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB - Creating Careers A Step Ahead
  • NHS South, Central and West, Bristol City Council, North Somerset Council, South Gloucestershire Council, NHS Bristol and North Somerset & South Gloucestershire ICB - Sharing information to underpin and support safeguarding and improve care for adults and children receiving Social Care Services
  • NECS (North of England Care System Support) - OPTICA - Optimising hospital discharge and improving patient outcomes by enabling Health and Social Care teams to securely collaborate over one digital source of patient information 
  • Digital Transformation NHS England (London Region) and OneLondon - Connecting care homes to the London Care Record
Digital Clinical Safety Award
  • Bolton FT - Increasing clinical safety using Bolton Enhanced Care Digital Pathway
  • Cardiff and Vale UHB - Improving Patient Safety in Adrenal Insufficiency- using proprietary digital software (Device Link) 
  • DHU Healthcare - Protecting and enhancing safety; a partnership offering better quality care through instant differentiation of the sickest patients with 'eTriage' at Loughborough UTC
  • Midlands Partnership University FT - A Cultural Shift and Collaborative Approach in Digital Innovation
  • North and West Northamptonshire and Northamptonshire Healthcare FT - Integrated Falls Project Across Northamptonshire
  • Northumbria Healthcare FT - Digital Clinical Safety
  • Sussex Community FT - SCFT Digital Clinical Safety - Keeping digital safe and brave
  • The Royal Wolverhampton Hospital Trust - A Digital Clinical Safety System Model
  • Yorkshire & Humber Care Record - Championing Clinical Risk Management and Safety Culture: Integration into Regional Shared Care Records Across Yorkshire and Humber
Digital Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award
  • Black Country ICB - Black Country Connected -For a Healthier Future
  • Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust - Demographic Data Capture Template - SystmOne
  • Children and Young People's North East and North Cumbria Diabetes Network - Ensuring equitable access to diabetes technologies for children and young people with diabetes across the North East and North Cumbria
  • Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance - Workforce and Education Team - Greater Manchester Cancer Academy: Empowering Conversations and Inclusive Terminology
  • Isle of Wight Trust - Promoting digital inclusion in mental health services
  • NHS Cheshire and Merseyside - Supporting digital inclusion in Cheshire and Merseyside
Digital Innovator of the Year
  • Dr Matthew Dolman  - NHS Somerset
  • Homerton Healthcare FT - Verbo- an online Speech and Language Therapy Toolkit for Children and Young People
  • Dr Ingrid Britton - NHS England Midlands 
  • Konstantinos Balaskas - Moorfields Eye Hospital FT and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
  • Mr David Duffy - Harrogate & District FT
  • Rotherham FT - Transforming Diagnostic Booking at Rotherham FT
  • Royal Cornwall Hospital - Implementing Teledermatology for Suspected Cancer Patients in Cornwall
  • Southern Health FT - VIREN - Virtual Reality Enhancing Nursing
Digital Leader of the Year
  • Ayub Bhayat - Director of Data Services and Deputy Chief Data and Analytics Officer - NHS England
  • Christina Sothinathan - CW Innovation, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital FT and St George’s University Hospitals FT
  • Laura Godtschalk - Leicestershire Partnership Trust
  • Richard Cox - Manchester University FT
  • Richard Leonard - Northumbria Healthcare FT
Digital Literacy, Education and Upskilling Award
  • Barts Health Trust - Deteriorating Patient App initiative
  • Black Country ICB - Black Country Connected -For a Healthier Future
  • Calderdale and Huddersfield FT - Calderdale and Huddersfield Digital Nurse Placements
  • DigitalHealth.London and South West London ICS - South West London Digital Pioneer Fellowship
  • Imperial College Healthcare Trust - Data Bytes - Improving Data Literacy for All
  • Midlands Partnership University FT - Digital Angels
  • NHS England - National Competency Framework for Data Professionals
  • Sussex Community FT - Sussex Health and Care Innovation Lab
  • The Royal College of Pathologists - The Pathology Portal
Digital Organisation of the Year
  • Integrated Care Northamptonshire - Zeros to Heroes
  • Midlands Partnership University FT - From reactive chaos to successful delivery of our co-produced MPFT Digital Transformation Strategy
  • North West Ambulance Service - North West Ambulance Service 111
  • North West London Pathology - Creating a unified pathology service through digital transformation
  • Northumbria Healthcare FT
  • Sussex Community FT - Sussex Community FT - A Digital Leader
  • University Hospitals Birmingham FT - UHB EHR and Clinical Systems rollout to Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull Hospitals
Digital Team of the Year
  • Integrated Care Northamptonshire - ICS Digital Team
  • Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland ICB on behalf of LLR ICS - The Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) Care Record Programme Team
  • Manchester University FT - The Hive EPR Programme Team
  • Midlands Partnership University FT - From reactive chaos to successful delivery of our co-produced MPFT Digital Transformation Strategy
  • South London and Maudsley FT & King's College London - CAMHS Digital Lab
  • University Hospitals Birmingham FT - UHB Digital Health Team
  • University Hospitals Bristol and Weston FT - A new model for digitising outpatient services at scale and at pace  
  • University Hospitals North Midlands and other Trusts, University of Derby and other Universities, NHS England and Sim4Med - Midlands Imaging Training Academy (MITA)
  • York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals FT - Nucleus - bringing digital workflow to nursing, releasing time to patient care and #getnurseshomeontime
Driving Change through AI and Automation Award
  • Barts Health Trust - TREAT - (Treatment plan Recognition and Extraction through Advanced Text-mining)
  • Chelsea And Westminster FT - Implementing Automated AI-driven Dora Phone Calls to Patients Across the Cataract Surgery Pathway
  • Dr Carol Whelan - Royal Free London FT
  • Hertfordshire Community Trust - Children and Young Peoples Therapies Service – Digital Referral in and Automation to SystmOne.
  • NHS Somerset, NHS England South West and Axbridge Medical Practice - A BRAVE conversation
  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals FT - Trial Tracker
  • Shropshire Community Health Trust - Automating pathways using an AI-driven Assistant
  • Frimley Health FT and Ufonia Limited - Optimising a high-volume cataract pathway with an artificial intelligence autonomous clinical assistant
  • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh FT - Artificial Intelligence Supporting Diagnosis and Care Pathways for Upper and Lower Limb Fracture Detection
Driving Change through Data and Analytics Award
  • East London FT - Bringing integrated analytics into the hands of clinicians
  • Lincolnshire ICB - Lincolnshire Living with Cancer Programme
  • NHS Blood and Transplant - QS138 Quality Insights: An automated quality improvement national blood transfusion audit tool
  • NHS England - Federated Data Platform (FDP) Programme
  • NECS (North of England Care System Support) - OPTICA - Enabling Health and Social Care teams to collaborate and make informed decisions to improve patient flow, based on contemporaneous data and rich analysis
  • Somerset FT in partnership with Predictive Health Intelligence Limited - Somerset Liver Improvement Project
  • The Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust - Improving the visibility of analytics for our clinicians
  • University College London Hospitals FT - Improving patient flow with high-quality real-time data, virtual flow huddles and predictive analytics
  • University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire Trust - Optimising out patient performance
Empowering Patients through Digital
  • City & Hackney Psychological Therapies and Wellbeing Alliance - Self-managing my mental health and wellbeing on my smartphone
  • Cumbria Health - Health@Home
  • Leicestershire Partnership Trust - Enhancing access to health visiting services for parents and carers through ChatHealth messaging
  • Lingwell Croft Surgery - Empowering patients through telephone speech recognition technology
  • Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital - Telehealth in Cardiac Surgery
  • Sussex Health and Care ICS - My Health and Care Record
  • Rotherham, Doncaster & South Humber FT - Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber FT eClinics
  • University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire - Gro Health W8Buddy in Specialist Weight Management
  • University Hospitals of Northamptonshire - University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and Islacare: Pioneering Healthcare Transformation through Digital Excellence
Enhancing Workforce Engagement, Productivity and Wellbeing through Digital
  • Cheshire and Wirral Partnership Trust - Improving staff confidence, knowledge and attitudes working with complex emotional and relational needs through digital training
  • Hounslow Borough Based Partnership - Creating an engaged and informed Health and Care Workforce through a Partnership Website and Digital Resource Centre
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals - What Good Looks Like – enabling digital transformation at scale
  • Modality Partnership - Making a Real Positive Difference!
  • NHS England - Bwell
  • Northumbria FT - Establishing Team-Based Rostering in our Emergency Department
  • University Hospitals North Midlands and other Trusts, University of Derby and other Universities, NHS England and Sim4Med - Midlands Imaging Training Academy (MITA)
  • York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals FT - Nucleus - bringing digital workflow to nursing, releasing time to patient care and #getnurseshomeontime
Generating Impact in Population Health through Digital
  • Arden & GEM CSU, NHS Bedfordshire and Luton & Milton Keynes ICB - Supporting better proactive diabetes management in BLMK through an early warning system
  • Barts Health Trust - Impacting Population Health through Digital Reporting Platforms
  • Black Country ICB and Walsall Together - Black Country Population Outcomes Framework
  • Leicestershire Partnership Trust - Enhancing access to health visiting services for parents and carers through ChatHealth messaging
  • North East and North Cumbria ICS, Health Innovation Network NENC, West Yorkshire ICS, Health Innovation Network York & Humber and PocDoc - Attacking the “prevention gap” - Scaling up CVD screening in secondary and primary prevention in the North using innovative digital pathways
  • One Wirral CIC - Diabetes Prehabilitation Service
  • Somerset FT in partnership with Predictive Health Intelligence Limited - Somerset Liver Improvement Project
  • Yorkshire Ambulance Service - Ambulance and Integrated Urgent Care - Place Based Populational Health Management Analytics Tool
Improving Back-Office Efficiencies through Digital
  • Bolton FT - Using e-rostering to drive down wait lists
  • FutureNHS - Spreading secure collaboration across organisational borders in health and care
  • Lewisham and Greenwich Trust and Oxford University Hospitals FT in collaboration with NHS Shared Business Services - NHS Automation: Harnessing RPA, Powering Positive Change
  • Midlands Partnership University FT - Enhancing Back-Office Processes Through Advanced Automation
  • Midlands Partnership University FT - Staffordshire Community Dental Services - Digitisation
  • NHS England and Accelerated Access Collaborative and BJSS - NHS Innovation Service
  • Provide Digital - eQuals
  • Provide Digital - ImpactEQ
  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals FT - Stroke Trial Tracker
Improving Medicines Management and Pharmacy through Digital
  • Birmingham Women's and Children's FT, West Midlands Regional Genetics Laboratory and Forward Thinking Birmingham - iPILOT - Overcoming barriers to implementation of pharmacogenomics end to end service, within the mental health clinical pathway, supporting medicines optimisation
  • Calderdale and Huddersfield FT - Controlled Drug Register Project
  • Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB - Digital Medication Management - Improving Patient Adherence
  • NHS Greater Manchester, Health Innovation Manchester and University of Manchester - Scaling a local Safety Medication Dashboard (SMASH) programme to benefit the 3.2 million population of Greater Manchester
  • North East London FT - Pharmacy Operational Dashboard
  • Oxleas FT - eMeds Inpatients
  • Royal Free London FT - Streamlining rifaximin access: a digital innovation for improved medication access and cost efficiency
  • South London and Maudsley FT - electronic Prescribing and Medicine Administration (ePMA)
  • Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust - The POWER tool - Pharmacy Optimisation of Workforce Efficiency in Real-time
Improving Mental Health through Digital
  • Birmingham Women's and Children's FT, West Midlands Regional Genetics Laboratory and Forward Thinking Birmingham - iPILOT - Overcoming barriers to implementation of pharmacogenomics end to end service, within the mental health clinical pathway, supporting medicines optimisation
  • Central and North West London FT - Data Driven Insights in Community Mental Health Services
  • City & Hackney Psychological Therapies and Wellbeing Alliance - Self-managing my mental health and wellbeing on my smartphone
  • Hertfordshire Partnership University FT and Psyomics - Digital Initial Assessments (Censeo)
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria FT - Tipping the balance
  • Midlands Partnership University FT - Transforming Mental Health Care through Electronic Prescribing Service
  • NHS Informatics Merseyside and Mersey Care FT - What3words in a crisis
  • Norfolk and Suffolk FT & Norfolk and Waveney ICB - The Better Sleep Programme
  • South London and Maudsley FT & King's College London - myHealthE
Improving Out of Hospital Care through Digital
  • Cambridge University Hospitals - CUH Virtual Ward at home, a whole hospital approach
  • The Dudley Group FT - Paediatric Virtual Ward - A Technological Innovation in Patient Care
  • Frimley Health and Care ICS and Connected Care - Supporting Residents with Out of Hospital Care, Using Data Driven Digital Transformation
  • Hywel Dda UHB - Remote monitoring and digital coaching reduces nurse visits and supports COPD care in the community
  • Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust - Technology enabled multi-speciality acute virtual ward
  • North West Ambulance Service - Electronic Patient Record Migration (from Windows to Progressive Web App) 
  • Royal Cornwall Hospital - Implementing Teledermatology for Suspected Cancer Patients in Cornwall
  • Whittington Health - Whittington Virtual Ward adopt technology enabled care to save thousands of ‘bed days’ for complex frailty patients
  • Wirral University Teaching Hospital FT - Digitally Supported Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Service
Improving Primary Care through Digital
  • Black Country ICB - Digital First Primary Care Programme
  • Brookside Group Practice - Maximising Capacity and Continuity in Primary Care
  • Lingwell Croft Surgery - Total Digital Triage & Telephone Assist
  • Modality Partnership - Opening the Digital Front Door to True Patient Demand
  • NHS England South East Region Primary Care Transformation Innovation Programme and Folkestone, Hythe and Rural PCN - NHS England South East Region Primary Care Transformation Innovation Programme and Folkestone, Hythe and Rural Primary Care Network Hub Pilot
  • South Worcestershire Healthcare - Using digital software to improve patient care in lipid management
  • Southport and Formby Health (Southport and Formby PCN) - Improving Access to Primary Care through GP Website Transformation 
  • Sunderland GP Alliance - Sunderland Patient Information Portal Project
Improving Urgent and Emergency Care through Digital
  • Calderdale and Huddersfield FT - Same Day Emergency Care Project
  • DHU Healthcare  - Turning the tide; using 'eTriage' to eliminate queues, instantly differentiate the sickest patients and improve flow through Loughborough UTC
  • Mersey and West Lancashire Trust and Blüm Health - Mersey Burns: A Cutting-Edge Digital Platform Enhancing Urgent Care for Burns Patient Resuscitation
  • North West Ambulance Service - Improving 111 Call Handling through Digital
  • Royal Papworth Hospital FT - The Robot Made in Cambridge, Operating in Cambridge, and Improving Outcomes for Patients Across the East of England
  • University College London Hospitals FT - Real-time Predictions of Emergency Bed Demand to Improve Patient Flow Information
  • Urgent Health UK - UHUK Innovation Programme, in partnership with The University of Warwick
  • West Suffolk Hospital and Virtual Bones - Virtual Bones- Enhancing efficiency in musculoskeletal injuries management and referral pathway
  • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh FT - Electronic SBAR
Moving Towards Net Zero through Digital
  • Cumbria Health on Call - Health@Home
  • Kettering General Hospital FT - Digital pathways to Net Zero: The Post Op App Revolution in Sustainable Healthcare 
  • Midlands Partnership University FT - Leading the Way in Digitising Secondary Care Prescriptions for a Greener Future
  • Midlands Partnership University FT - Staffordshire Community Dental Services - Moving to Net Zero 
  • myHappyMind  - myHappymind in Bradford District and Craven
Optimising Clinical Pathways through Digital
  • Barking, Havering & Redbridge University Hospitals Trust - AF Stroke Prevention Hub
  • Bradford Teaching Hospitals - Redesigning the Rheumatology Nurse Advice Line at Bradford Teaching Hospitals
  • Harrogate and District FT - Harrogate Post procedure Patient Innovation (HaPPI)
  • Humber Teaching FT and The Owl Centre - Hybrid Neurodiversity Assessments
  • North West London Pathology - LIMS Standardisation and Transformation Programme
  • Northern Care Alliance FT - Optimising Skin Cancer Care: Accelerating Referral-to-Diagnosis Time at The Northern Care Alliance in Collaboration with Open Medical
  • Royal Free London FT - Implementation of an Automated Heart Failure Referral via Raised NTproBNP
  • Sandwell and West Birmingham Trust - EQL Musculoskeletal digital triage and supported self-management 
  • West Yorkshire ICB - vCreate - Using digital innovation to provide quicker access to epilepsy care for CYP
Reducing Health Inequalities through Digital
  • Children and Young People's North East and North Cumbria Diabetes Network - Ensuring equitable access to diabetes technologies for children and young people with diabetes across the North East and North Cumbria 
  • Black Country ICB - The Population Outcomes Framework
  • Slough Place, Frimley ICB - Using a population health approach to tackle health inequalities in Slough – The Multigenerational Outreach Programme
  • Homerton Healthcare FT - Verbo- the online Speech and Language Therapy Toolkit for Children and Young People
  • Isle of Wight Trust - Promoting physical health checks in mental health services
  • myHappyMind - myHappymind in Bradford District and Craven
  • North East and North Cumbria Child Health and Wellbeing Network NHS - Healthier Together Champions Supporting Access in Underserved Communities
  • South Tees Hospitals FT - Waiting Well South Tees
Supporting Elective Recovery through Digital
  • Harrogate and District FT - Harrogate Post procedure Patient Innovation (HaPPI)
  • Kettering General Hospital - Elective Recovery Reimagined using "Post Op App" : The Digital Evolution Unleashed 
  • Manchester University FT - Enabling the Development of an elective surgical hub at a multicentre organisation through digital workflows
  • One Wirral CIC - Diabetes Prehabilitation Service
  • Sussex Health and Care ICS - My Health and Care Plus
  • Royal United Hospitals Bath FT - The Trust-wide rollout and implementation of a Patient Engagement Platform (PEP) to support elective recovery
  • Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals Trust - EQL Musculoskeletal digital triage and supported self-management 
  • University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire Trust - Using AI and Design to improve patient flow in Outpatients
  • University Hospitals of Leicester - Accelerating recovery and improving experiences for thousands of patients