Shortlist 2025

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

Connecting Health and Social Care through Digital
  • Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICS - Demonstrating the value of sharing data from the UK’s leading heart and lung hospital
  • Health Innovation Manchester and NHS Greater Manchester - Connecting health and social care for 2.8 million people with the Greater Manchester Care Record
  • Humber Teaching FT - Interweave Shared Care Record
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust - Recovery Care Plan – connecting health and social care across Leeds
  • Humber and North Yorkshire ICB - Humber and North Yorkshire’s Public Insight Bank
  • North Central London Integrated Care Board and Transformation Partners in Health and Care - Connecting Social Care and Health in North Central London with acoustic monitoring and digital innovation
  • Nottingham University Hospitals - The ‘One Version’ dataset: improving discharge performance across Nottinghamshire health and social care
  • South East London Integrated Care Board - South East London Care Record Health and Social Care Data Sharing
  • University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust & Coventry City Council - Improving Lives- health and care partners working together to improve outcomes for Coventry people
Digital Clinical Safety Award
  • Birmingham and Solihull ICB - Championing clinical risk management in implementing an Electronic Eyecare Referral System (EeRS) in the Midlands
  • Central and North West London FT - Enhancing Clinical Safety Through Real-Time Digital Observations: Transforming Patient Care with the Brigid App
  • Chelsea and Westminster Hospital FT - Demonstrating the clinical safety of AI-powered Teledermatology: Transitioning from Pilot to Sustainable Standard Practice
  • Health Services Safety Investigations Body - National advocacy on behalf of the user - supporting a safe digital future for general practice
  • North Bristol Trust - Revolutionising Patient Safety through Digital Tasks
  • The Rotherham FT - GP Connect in Meditech: Streamlining Medication and Allergy Data
  • University College London Hospitals FT - A blueprint for embedding digital clinical safety in healthcare
  • University College London Hospitals FT - Surgical eConsent Development and Rollout
  • University Hospital Southampton Maternity - Digital Maternity Equipment Safety Checks
Digital Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award
  • Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board - Bridging the Gap: Tackling Digital Exclusion in Maternity Services in Wales
  • Health Economics Unit - Midlands and Lancashire LGBTQ+ EDI talk series
  • Imperial College Healthcare Trust - EDI Improvement Project
  • NHS Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICS - Digital Cafè
  • University Hospitals of Leicester Trust - Multi Lingual Self Check In at the East Midlands Planned Care Centre
  • Welsh Ambulance Services University Trust - Advancing Digital Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at WAST
  • West London Trust - AI and Digital Health Ability Passport Program
Digital Innovator of the Year
  • East London FT - Dr Alex Harborne
  • Healthcare first - Dr Muhammad Murad khan
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust - Thomas Burden
  • Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust - Roberta Fuller
  • South Yorkshire Primary Care Workforce & Training Hub - Liz Leggott
Digital Leader of the Year
  • Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - James Crowther - Chief Technology Officer - Digital Leader of the Year 2025
  • Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board - Cheri Lewis, Senior Midwife for Clinical Informatics
  • East Midlands Radiology Network - Andrew Fearn
  • Humber and North Yorkshire ICB - John Mitchell - Associate Director of Digital
  • Imperial College Healthcare Trust & Chelsea and Westminster FT - James Bird - Digital Leader
  • Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland’s ICB - Ian Wakeford
  • Maudsley Learning, Maudsley Enterprise, South London and Maudsley FT - Carolyn Hodgman
  • Northampton General Hospital - Ramandeep Kaur
  • University Hospitals Birmingham FT - Professor Tanya Pankhurst
Digital Literacy, Education and Upskilling Award
  • Dartford & Gravesham Trust - Digital Heroes - Capacity, Capability & Culture for Digital Transformation
  • Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance - Cancer Academy Communication Skills
  • Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber - West Yorkshire Digital Ambassadors Programme
  • Imperial College Healthcare Trust - The impact of Digital Education at the elbow
  • Torbay and South Devon FT - Digital Literacy and Inclusion Project at Torbay NHS 2024
  • North Bristol Trust - Digital Nurse Fellows Programme
  • North London FT - Our Digital, Data and AI Academy
  • Nuneaton & Bedworth PCN - Removing the Barriers to Enable Multi-Channel Patient Access to Primary Care
  • The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre FT - Be Digital
Digital Organisation of the Year
  • Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital FT - Leading the way in digital maturity and delivering safer, more efficient care
  • Derbyshire Healthcare FT - Digital innovation within Derbyshire Healthcare
  • The Dudley Group FT - Team Dudley
  • University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire - Electronic Patient Record / Digital record for Marthas Rule / AI for validation, theatres unstructured data, process mining, and clinical coding
Digital Team of the Year
  • Tameside & Glossop Integrated FT - Empowering Nationwide Post-Mortem Access through Digital Transformation: A Multi-Agency Collaborative Initiative in South Manchester
  • Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children FT - Clinical Insights Unit Team
  • Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB - LLR Digital Innovation and Transformation Team
  • Mid and South Essex FT - Pathology - The Road to Digitisation
  • North London FT - EPR Programme
  • Nuneaton and Bedworth PCN - Digital and Transformation Team
  • South Tees Hospitals - MIYA Programme Team
  • Treetops Hospice, NHS Birmingham and Solihull, NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, University of Birmingham - Midlands Collaborative Palliative and End-of-life Care Toolkit Development Project
  • University Hospitals of North Midlands - Empowering Stroke Care: Enhancing Thrombectomy Access Through AI-Driven Clinical Pathways
Driving Change through AI and Automation Award
  • Central & North West London FT - Driving Efficiency in Mental Health Services with Artificial Intelligence Ambient Voice Technology
  • Cheshire and Merseyside Radiology Imaging Network - CAMRIN AI Diagnostic Fund - Annalise
  • Imperial College Healthcare Trust - Artificial Intelligence in radiotherapy: use of deep learning auto-contouring in the treatment of cancer patients
  • Kent Community Health FT - RPA Transformation of Recruitment
  • Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency - Driving Change Through AI and Automation for Clinical Trials Assessment
  • Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust - Leveraging automation to put our people first.
  • NHSE (London) Digital First and Health Innovation Network South London (HIN) - London Digital First Primary Care AI and Automation Grants Programme
  • NHSE London: DUEC - Natural Language Processing (NLP) and AI Categorisation in NHS Integrated Urgent Care (IUC)
  • Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust - Clinical Blue Light Application Performance
  • University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust - Artificial intelligence revolutionising Stroke care and improving Stroke Thrombectomy access.
Driving Change through Data and Analytics Award
  • NHS Greater Manchester - Digitising our Smokefree Pregnancy Pathway
  • Northern Care Alliance FT - CaudaNet - automated cauda equina compression identification on MRI scans
  • Cheshire and Merseyside Acute and Specialist Trust - Measuring What Matters: Using Data and Analytics to Maximise Benefits Realisation in Radiology and Imaging Healthcare
  • East of England Cancer Alliance - Closing The Gap on Cancer Waits in the East of England
  • NHS Cheshire and Merseyside’s Radiology Imaging Network (CAMRIN) - CAMDASH Project
  • Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children FT - Clinical Insights Unit
  • Health Innovation West of England - PreCiSSIon’: Development of regional digital SSI surveillance following Caesarean Birth, enabling a large-scale preventative quality improvement programme and risk identification
  • Herefordshire General Practice - Primary Care Analytics
  • North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust - Keep Warm, Keep Well
Driving Prevention and Early Intervention through Digital
  • DHCFT - Derby School Nursing and The Lancaster Model (TLM)
  • Harrogate and District FT - Reducing Inpatient Falls with Smart Nurse Call
  • Healthcare first - Wakefield Palpitation Service
  • Meon Health Practice - Scaling Digital Solutions for Chronic Disease Prevention: Meon PCN’s Model for Integrated Care
  • Leeds Health & Care Partnership - Revolutionising Prevention: Digital Empowerment for Patients with Long-Term Conditions
  • Manchester University FT - The NHS’s first AI-driven ‘see and treat’ service for suspected skin cancer at Manchester University FT
  • The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital FT / Royal Orthopaedic Hospital - GetUBetter for MSK patients in Birmingham and Solihull
  • NHS Greater Manchester - Digitising our Smokefree Pregnancy Pathway
  • The Royal Wolverhampton Trust, Digital Innovation Unit - PRADA Proactive Risk Based Data Driven Assessment in End of Life
Empowering Patients through Digital
  • AHSN - Health Innovation Network - Empowering Patients: Harnessing User Insights and Digital Innovation in London’s Integrated Care Services
  • Bradford District Care FT - Patient Engagement Platform
  • Cambridge University Hospitals FT - Expansion of our patient portal and use of automation to empower patients to improve health outcomes and support organisational efficiencies
  • Digital Health and Care Wales - The NHS Wales App
  • Leeds Health & Care Partnership - Empowering Self-Management: Transforming Multiple Long-Term Condition Care with Remote Monitoring in Primary Care
  • NHS Dorset - BP@Home
  • The Dudley Group FT - Empowering Patients through Digital Clinics
  • The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals FT - Empowering Teenage and young Adults - A co-produced resource explaining cancer research, enabling TYA’s to make informed decisions around there care.
  • University hospitals Sussex - PROMS for cancer care support in Sussex
Enhancing Workforce Engagement, Productivity and Wellbeing through Digital
  • East Kent Hospitals University FT - From Statistics to Stories: A Digital Solution to Workforce Wellbeing & Engagement
  • Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance - Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance: Cancer Academy ePortfolio Platform
  • Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust - Introducing staffroom - a mobile first intranet and staff app
  • London Imaging Academy - London Imaging Academy Online Learning Platform
  • Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells Trust and NHS Kent & Medway ICB - Pharmacy Workforce Transformation: Coach A Pharmacist Prescriber (CAPP) Platform
  • Mid and South Essex FT - MyStaff App: Enhancing Staff Experience and Productivity through digital innovation
  • St. George’s, Epsom and St. Helier University Hospital Trust (GESH) - Ask Aunty Programme
  • The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre FT - My Appraisal
Generating Impact in Population Health through Digital
  • Central London Community Healthcare Trust - Collaboration using a population health approach an integrating Digital
  • DHCFT - Derby City School Nursing impacting population health
  • London Borough of Tower Hamlets - Epidemiological Data and Intelligence for Tower Hamlets (EDITH)
  • NHS England and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICB - Development of eFIT - a tool to support ICBs to allocate extra funding to GPs based on deprivation and local needs
  • NHS England Products & Platforms Directorate | A collaboration between NHS Cohorting as a Service, NHS Digital Prevention Services, & NHS Notify - Cohort to Contact - Building digital capabilities to increase vaccine and screening uptake across England
  • NHS NWL - Long Term Conditions Platforms | Integrated Pathways Team
  • WCC and RBKC - Wellbeing Hub
Improving Back-Office Efficiencies through Digital
  • Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust - Digitisation of Staffbank Workflow
  • Mid and South Essex FT - MyStaff App
  • Norfolk and Waveney Procurement Collaboration in partnership with NHS Shared Business Services - The Enhanced Purchase to Pay Revolution: Transforming Finance and Procurement, System-wide
  • North East London FT - Patient Experience Applications
  • Tower Family Healthcare - GPnav consistent care navigation for general practice
  • Tees, Esk & Wear Valley FT - Centralised Asset Management
  • University Hospital Southampton - Digital Letters
  • Wrightington Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals FT - Democratising Clinical Audit Through Digital Technology
Improving Medicines Management and Pharmacy through Digital
  • Central & North West London FT (CNWL) - Safer use of valproate
  • Cumbria Northumberland Tyne and Wear FT - Implementing ePMA across Mental Health and Learning Disability Inpatient Wards
  • North East London FT - Bridging the gap: Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) implementation across Kent CAMHS services
  • North London FT - Improving medication safety through ePMA implementation across inpatient mental health wards
  • Northwest London Acute Provider Collaborative - Therapeutic duplicate prescribing alerts for analgesia and anticoagulants
  • Oxford Health FT - Enhancing T2/T3 Prescribing with Digitisation and Decision Support in ePMA
  • Somerset FT - Successful integration of the Better Meds ePMA and Electronic Prescribing Service (EPS) into the Somerset Integrated Digital e-Record (SIDeR) system
  • The Rotherham FT - GP Connect in MEDITECH: Streamlining Medication and Allergy Data
  • Wirral University Teaching Hospitals - Using Digital Solutions to Improve Access to Medicines Out of Hours
Improving Mental Health through Digital
  • Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust- Norfolk & Waveney Advice, Support & Access - Children & Young People’s Mental Health Services
  • Central and North West London FT, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital FT, West London Trust, CW+ - Best For You
  • Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust - Chatbot for Talking Therapies Self-Referral
  • Greater Manchester Mental Health FT - Enhancing Patient Care through the Digitisation of Therapeutic Observations
  • Health Innovation East Midlands - Digital Innovation Helps Tackle ADHD Waiting List Challenge
  • Hertfordshire Partnership University FT - Implementation and statistical analysis of PROM and PREM to enable patient centered care and service transformation in mental health
  • Midlands Partnership University FT - Electronic Prescription Service
  • Nottinghamshire Healthcare FT - East Midlands Cancer Alliance Centre for Psychosocial Health (EMCA CPH)
  • Tavistock and Portman FT - Waiting Room: The Website For The Services
Improving Out of Hospital Care through Digital
  • Essex Partnership University FT, West Essex Health and Care Partnership - West Essex Hospital at Home
  • Liverpool University Hospitals FT - Home Digital Cardiac Rehabilitation following step-down from Liverpool Acute Heart Failure Virtual Ward
  • Manchester Royal Eye Hospital - Enhanced Diabetic Eye Assessment Clinic
  • Mersey and West Lancs Teaching Hospitals Trust - Frailty Virtual Ward
  • Royal Devon University Hospital - RDUH Virtual Ward
  • South Warwickshire University FT - Revolutionising Wound Care: Unlocking Efficiency, Enhancing Patient Outcomes, and Driving Digital Transformation
  • Stockport FT - Digital Postnatal Hypertension Pathway
  • University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust & Coventry City Council - Improving Lives - enabling an integrated community model to support people in Coventry towards improved outcomes
  • Whittington Health Trust - Health Analytics in OPAT: Using smart data to improve patient outcomes and support stewardship in patients’ homes
Improving Primary Care through Digital
  • Camden Health Evolution - Central Camden PCN Digital Rectal Pathology Clinic
  • Danebridge Medical Centre - Simplifying triage and creating 24/7 appointment booking and care management services through a new digital ‘front door’.
  • Groves Medical Centre - Improving access and increasing capacity at The Groves through smart triage
  • Health Innovation Manchester, NHS Greater Manchester and Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership - One programme, One team: Building a Digital Future for Primary Care across Greater Manchester
  • Hereford Medical Group - Total Digital Triage at Hereford Medical Group
  • NHSE (London) Digital First and Health Innovation Network South London (HIN)- London Digital First Primary Care AI and Automation Grants Programme
  • South East London ICB - Lewisham CVD Project
  • Suffolk and North East Essex ICB - Using AI to detect skin cancer earlier and transform patient experience in Primary Care.
  • Suffolk and North East Essex ICB - The Insight Programme
  • Tudor Lodge Health Centre - Transforming Patient Access: Digital Telephony Innovation
Improving Urgent and Emergency Care through Digital
  • Cheshire & Wirral Partnership FT - Mental Health First Response Digital Care Co-ordination
  • East Lancashire Hospitals Trust - Streaming, Redirection and Acuity
  • Greater Manchester Urgent Primary Care Alliance (GMUPCA) - Utilising the Booking and referral standard (BaRs) for North west ambulance service (NWAS) and the Greater Manchester CAS for interoperability
  • Hertfordshire Community Trust - Access to Stack and Unscheduled Care Coordiation Centre
  • NHS - Patientcheck.in - Reducing Waiting Times with Smartphone Self-Check-In
  • South Warwickshire University FT - Re-designing Patient Flow Management with a Digital Lens
  • University Hospitals Birmingham FT - Implementing eTriage at University Hospitals Birmingham
  • University Hospitals of Leicester - Emergency Department Paperlite Project
  • University Hospitals Plymouth - X-Ray Car (Mobile X-Ray Service)
Moving Towards Net Zero through Digital
  • NHS England - Wayfinder Programme
  • University College London Hospitals FT - Paperless Programme - Surgical eConsent
  • University College London Hospitals FT - Offering a digital first approach to patient information at UCLH
Optimising Clinical Pathways through Digital
  • Guy’s and St Thomas’ FT - QGenome: Genomic referral, risk assessment and testing guidance for clinicians
  • Health Innovation East Midlands - Digital Tool Helps Optimise the ADHD Care Pathway
  • King’s College Hospital Trust - Kidney Beam: The physical activity and lifestyle management digital health intervention for people with cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic health conditions
  • Leeds Sexual Health - Online HIV prevention & chlamydia treatment in Leeds
  • NHS Executive - Strategic Programme for Planned Care in collaboration with Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, Swansea Bay University Health Board, and Hywel Dda University Health Board. - Community HealthPathways
  • Royal Devon University Healthcare FT - Newly Referred Patient Glaucoma Pathway
  • South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC) - Patient-Centric THR & TKR Recovery with Definition Health’s Virtual Ward: Prioritising Safety, Individualised Care, and Digital Innovation
  • The Royal Wolverhampton Trust - Digital Perioperative transformation
  • University Hospitals of North Midlands - Optimising Clinical Pathways through Artificial intelligence to improve stroke Thrombectomy access
Reducing Health Inequalities through Digital
  • Essex Partnership University FT - Primary Care Network Mental Health Practitioner Service
  • London North West University Healthcare Trust - LNWH’s Equity Index
  • NHS England and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICB - Development of eFIT - a tool to support ICBs to allocate extra funding to GPs based on deprivation and local needs
  • NHS Greater Manchester - Reducing the burden of Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) across Greater Manchester (GM) – the CVNeed tool
  • NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board - Children in Care and Care Leavers - Shaping Health Services
  • North East London Cancer Alliance - Clinical Animations: Improving Access and Addressing Inequalities in Cancer Treatments
  • North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust - Keep Warm, Keep Well
  • Nottingham University Hospitals Trust and University of Leicester - FARR: A multi-lingual application to enhance Family Activation of Rapid Response Systems
  • Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust - SCFT Roma Video Reminder Project
  • South East London ICB - Lewisham CVD Project
Supporting Elective Recovery through Digital
  • Cambridge University Hospital - Reducing elective surgery cancellations with the support of Virtual Ward
  • Chesterfield Royal Hospital FT - Driving theatre improvements through digital innovation
  • East Lancashire Hospitals FT - Nurses pioneering use of AI to enhance productivity in clinical consultations
  • Midlands Partnership University FT - Patients Know Best
  • South Warwickshire University FT - Implementation of LOLA, a virtual clinical assistant, to reduce waiting lists and free up clinical capacity
  • South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC) - Patient-Centric THR & TKR Recovery with Definition Health’s Virtual Ward: Prioritising Safety, Individualised Care, and Digital Innovation
  • The Royal Wolverhampton Trust - Assisting elective recovery through digital perioperative transformation
  • United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals Trust - Reducing outpatient did not attends (DNAs): a machine learning, risk stratification, and patient contact strategy approach.
Unlocking Productivity and Efficiency with Digital
  • Chelsea and Westminster Hospital FT - Demonstrating the clinical safety of AI-powered Teledermatology: Transitioning from Pilot to Sustainable Standard Practice
  • Guy’s and St Thomas’ FT - QGenome: Genomic referral, risk assessment and testing guidance for clinicians
  • Hull University Teaching Hospitals Trust - Maximising Efficiency in Radiotherapy Treatment Planning
  • Humber and North Yorkshire ICB - The Yorkshire and Humber Shared Care Record
  • Lincolnshire ICB - vMDT Platform - design and implementation of this digital tool to help our multiprofessionals teams to collaborate and improve productivity
  • Moorfields Eye Hospital - More capacity, same space through digitising the cataracts service
  • NHS Cheshire and Merseyside’s Radiology Imaging Network (CAMRIN) - Digital Diagnostic Network and PACS Cloud Projects
  • Shropshire Community Health Trust - Automating School-age Immunisation Consent Processes Using Conversational AI
  • University Hospitals of Leicester - Emergency Department Paperlite Project