Winners 2023

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

Connecting Health and Social Care through Digital

 


WINNER:  East Riding of Yorkshire Council - Digital Record Enabling and Management Support (DREaMS) Team

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Northampton Health FT, West Northamptonshire Council and North Northamptonshire Council - Remote Monitoring in the community

Finalists:

  • Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICS - Digitising Social Care in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes
  • Gloucestershire Hospitals FT - System Flow in Gloucestershire
  • Hywel Dda University Health Board and Delta Wellbeing - Supporting elderly and vulnerable people to live independently in their homes.
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB - Lancashire and South Cumbria Shared Care Record (LSCSCR)
  • Midlands Partnership FT, University Hospital of North Midlands Trust, Stoke-on-Trent City Council, MySENSE - High Intensity MySENSE Project
  • NHS Arden & GEM CSU, Liverpool City Council - Finding a national solution to link adult social care and health data
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB - The Digital Catalogue
Digital Clinical Safety Award

 


WINNER:  North West Anglia FT and K2MS -Digital Maternity Specialists - Digital Fetal early warning score system (Digital FEWS) – Support to deliver Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle initiative in NHS

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital - Closed Loop Medications within a Specialist Trust

Finalists:

  • Alder Hey Children's Hospital FT - Introduction of a paedeatric anaesthetic record
  • Humber Teaching FT - Implementing Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) within a Partnership Provided Community Addiction Service
  • Manx Care - SmartPage - digital communication and alerting
  • North West Ambulance Service Trust and RLDatix - Increasing patient safety through digital risk management
  • The Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust - Improving Patient Safety using Digital Innovation
  • University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust - Digitisation of the checking process for Cardiac arrest trolleys using My Kit Check
  • Wrightington Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals FT - Digital Innovation Projects and their Safe Implementation
Digital Innovator of the Year

 


WINNER:  Kumar Medical Centre and Frimley ICB - Reducing Health Inequalities in Slough

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Community Pharmacy Surrey and Sussex and NHS Sussex - AccuRx initiative: Increase collaborative working and identification of undiagnosed hypertension by utilising the NHS Community Pharmacy Blood Pressure Check Service

Finalists:

  • Frimley Health and Care ICS - Digital Innovation in Emergency Departments: Redirecting Care with Connected Care Solutions
  • Guy's and St Thomas' FT - A Framework for Rapid Development and Deployment of AI in Healthcare
  • Liverpool University Hospitals FT - Patient Event Viewer
  • London North West University Healthcare Trust - Digitally enabled LNWH Trust virtual ward programme
  • Oxford University Hospitals Trust - Remote clinical management in rheumatology
  • Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust - Implementing and Embedding Digital Healthcare on a Global Scale
  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals FT - Using Artificial Intelligence to Accurately Measure the Heart on MRI Scans
Digital Leader of the Year

 


WINNER:  Dr Mark Lyttle - University Hospitals Bristol and Weston FT

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Dr Tim Robbins - University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust

Finalists:

  • Prof Konstantinos Balaskas - Moorfields Eye Hospital 
  • Nicola Ridell - NHS Forth Valley 
  • Phil Holland - The Princess Alexandra Hospital 
Digital Literacy, Education and Upskilling Award

 


WINNER:  Cardiff and Vale University Health Board - The NHS Wales University Eye Care Centre

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Wrightington Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals FT - Digital Champions Training Programme

Finalists:

  • DigitalHealth.London, operated by the Health Innovation Network with the support of partners including CW Innovation, Boehringer Ingelheim and many others - Digital Fellowship programmes: Empowering NHS staff to lead digital transformation
  • Guy's and St Thomas' FT, Department of Clinical Scientific Computing - Fellowships in Clinical Artificial Intelligence
  • Manchester University FT - Promoting Digital Literacy through Staff Engagement at Manchester Royal Infirmary
  • NHS England and The Shuri Network - Digital Fellowships for BAME nurses and midwives
  • North East and North Cumbria ICS - AHSN digital champions programme
  • South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance & Howbeck Healthcare - HOW2 – Providing online training to maximise the use of digital solutions in primary care
  • Surrey and Borders Partnership FT - Behind Every Product is a Person
Digital Team of the Year

 


WINNER:  University Hospitals Bristol and Weston FT - To Infinity and Beyond! – Digitising a Children’s Emergency Department, and interfacing partner services

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Digital Health and Care Wales - Welsh Nursing Care Record

Finalists:

  • East Riding of Yorkshire Council - Digital Records Enabling and Management Support (DREaMS) Team
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB - Digital Adoption and Transformation of Regulated Care
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust - The EHR Development team - Leeds Teaching Hospitals
  • Integrated Digital Service in support of Leeds City Council and Leeds Office of West Yorkshire ICB - Leeds City Digital Strategy 2022 to 2025
  • NHS Scotland and RLDatix - Bring a digital revolution to Scotland
  • The Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust - Digitally Enhancing Radiology for the future
  • UHCW Trust - UHCW R&D Digital Delivery: The Digital & Data Driven Research Unit Team
Driving Change through Data and Analytics Award

 


WINNER:  Guy’s and St Thomas’ FT - Insight Led Care – Faster, Fairer, Better Healthcare through Digital

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Royal Free London FT - Patient Safety Dashboard

Finalists:

  • Advancing Quality Alliance - Advancing Quality Programme
  • Digital Health and Care Wales, and Welsh Value in Health Centre - NHS Wales Health Data Dashboards
  • Moorfields Eye Hospital FT - Patient reported outcomes measures (PROMS) in the digital cataract service
  • Portsmouth University Hospitals Trust and Allocate Loop - Introducing Allocate Loop to Portsmouth University Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Provide Digital - The Smart Referral System
  • Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys FT - Perinatal Mental Health Clinical Outcome Reporting
  • The North West London Collaborative Staff Bank (ICH, CW, THH, LNW) and Patchwork Health - Harnessing data to drive effective ICS-wide staffing with the North West London Collaborative Bank
Empowering Patients through Digital

 


WINNER:  Portsmouth Hospitals University Trust and Concentric Health - Enhancing patient pathways and accelerating acute Trust elective recovery through the introduction of digital consenting

Finalists:

  • Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, Life Sciences Hub Wales, Huma - Digital-first cardiac care using remote patient monitoring
  • Bradford Teaching Hospitals FT - Empowering Patients through the SPaRC App
  • Chelsea and Westminster Hospital FT, Avegen and Viiv Healthcare - Klick - a digitally enabled nurse delivered service for HIV positive patients attending outpatient care
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust - Leeds Teaching Hospitals’ Virtual Fracture Clinic – empowering patients to manage their treatment plan and recovery
  • Milton Keynes University Hospital FT and Induction Healthcare Group PLC - MyCARE PEP empowers patients to self-manage their healthcare resulting in 50% reduction in DNAs
  • Northamptonshire Health FT and West and North Northampton Council - Remote Monitoring Northamptonshire
  • South West London ICS, Health Innovation Network and Sweatcoin - 22 million steps towards Diabetes Prevention powered by Sweatcoin, In collaboration with the Health Innovation Network (South London AHSN)
  • University Hospitals of Leicester Trust - Atrial Fibrillation Virtual Ward - the future of AF personalised care
Enhancing Workforce Engagement, Productivity and Wellbeing through Digital

 


WINNER:  North West Ambulance Service Trust - Building a Smart, Connected Ambulance Service

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  NHS Elect, Critical Care Networks National Nurse Leads (CC3N), NHS England Technology Enhanced Learning (NHS TEL) - Digitising the Step 1 proficiencies – National proficiencies framework for registered nurses in adult critical care

Finalists:

  • Cheshire and Wirral Partnership FT - Improving Staff Skills and Confidence Working with Complex Mental Health Difficulties
  • NHS England and escalla - Handling Difficult Situations with Compassion: Caring for yourself and others
  • NHS Lancashire Procurement Cluster - Releasing Clinical time back to patient care in the Emergency Department
  • One Wirral CIC - StaffBox Rota
  • Sheffield Children's FT and Tutum Medical - Enhancing workforce engagement through BEAMS alarm monitoring system
  • Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent ICS People Function - Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent Health & Care Careers: Virtual Work Experience
  • Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals FT and Patchwork Health - Unlocking flexible working through an innovative temporary staff bank solution at Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Generating Impact in Population Health through Digital

 


WINNER:  NHS Wales in partnership with The Institute of Clinical Science and Technology - The NHS Wales Digital Respiratory toolkit

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Frimley Health and Care ICS - Reducing Health Inequalities in Slough

Finalists:

  • Barts Health Trust - Health Inequalities Dashboard
  • Calderdale and Huddersfield FT - Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS FT's Population Health review and its impact on Health Inequalities
  • Cheshire and Wirral Partnership FT, NHS Cheshire & Merseyside, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital FT and Liverpool John Moores University and Northwest CHD PPV Group - Using an innovative approach with data analytics to understand epidemiology & care needs of patients with congenital heart disease in Cheshire
  • Health Economics Unit, Midlands Decision Support Network - Population Health Management online interactive training
  • Hertfordshire & West Essex ICB and Optum UK - Development of the Hertfordshire and West Essex Segmentation Model and Outcomes Framework
  • Leicestershire Partnership Trust - Healthy Together - Digital Health and Wellbeing Forms
  • Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent ICB and MedOptimise Limited - Medicines Optimisation SLA Project using MedOptimise Digital Tool
Improving Back-Office Efficiencies through Digital

 


WINNER:  Portsmouth Hospitals University Trust - Portsmouth Hospitals Maternity Intelligent Automation Transformation Programme

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent ICS People Function - Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent Health & Care Careers: Virtual Work Experience

Finalists:

  • Cambridge Community Services Trust and Provide CIC - Improving the use of Children's A&E Attendance Data & associated data flows
  • East & North Hertfordshire Trust - Enquire - a game changer for back-office transactional HR
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust - Leeds Teaching Hospitals #alerts reporting system
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust - Digitisation of Outpatient Appointment Correspondence
  • Mid and South Essex FT - MSEFT Access to Records Requester Portal
  • South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance and Howbeck Healthcare - HOW2 – Providing online training to improve the use of digital solutions in primary care
  • York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals FT and Patchwork Health - Streamlining workforce planning to reduce the administrative burden with York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Patchwork Health
Improving Mental Health through Digital

 


WINNER:  Mind Matters, Surrey and Borders Partnership FT and Limbic - Supporting referral and assessment in NHS Talking Therapy services: how Limbic and Mind Matters changed the patient pathway.

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Midlands Partnership FT - Improving Children and Young People's Mental Health Through The Sandbox

Finalists:

  • Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health FT - Mood on Track - The Bipolar Service
  • Cambridgeshire and Peterborough FT - Rapid access to mental health care for healthcare workers boosted by digital
  • Central and North West London FT with Oxehealth - Adopting non-intrusive monitoring technology to improve safety and care quality on mental health inpatient wards
  • NHS Arden & GEM CSU, NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICS, and ShinyMind - The Shine programme: Improving the mental health and wellbeing of both patients and primary care staff
  • NHS Somerset ICB - The Somerset Emotional Wellbeing Podcast
  • North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust - All Age Wellbeing Portal
  • Southern Health FT - TREE; Reducing The use of REstrictive practices on psychiatric wards through Virtual REality immersive technology training: A Virtual Reality Feasibility Study
Improving Out of Hospital Care through Digital

 


WINNER:  Northamptonshire Health FT and North and West Northamptonshire Council - Remote Monitoring Northamptonshire

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership - West Yorkshire Integrated Care System 'Healthier Together' Digital Tool

Finalists:

  • Digital Health and Care Wales, Cardiff University, Community Pharmacy Wales, Welsh Government - The Discharge Medicines Review (DMR) Service - Going Digital
  • King’s College Hospital FT, South East London ICB, Lambeth Diabetes Integrated Care Team and Huma - Digital-first, remote blood-glucose-monitoring to facilitate safe early discharge and fewer readmissions to improve out-of-hospital care for people with type-2 diabetes
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB - Lancashire and South Cumbria Shared Care Record and Viewer
  • LLR ICB and Spirit Health - Transforming patient care for over one million people across NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICS through remote monitoring technology
  • Midlands Partnership FT, University Hospital of North Midlands Trust, Stoke-on-Trent City Council, MySENSE - High Intensity Team MySENSE Project
  • NHS Cheshire and Merseyside - Virtual Wards / Hospitals at Home
  • Wrightington Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals FT - WWL Virtual Hub
Improving Urgent and Emergency Care through Digital

 


WINNER:  NHS England - East of England, East of England Ambulance Trust, and East of England UCR Providers - Access to the Stack - Cleric Digital Portal Enabler for Transferring Patients to Urgent Community Response Teams

Finalists:

  • Alder Hey Children's Hospital FT - Paedeatric Symptom Checker
  • Imperial College Healthcare Trust and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital FT - Clinical messaging app
  • L&SC ICB - Lancashire and South Cumbria Shared Care Record and Viewer
  • Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust in collaboration with TeleTracking UK - MTW's Care Co-Ordination Centre: Underpinning the digitalisation strategy and structural reform
  • Royal Berkshire FT - Digital Transformation of Acute Stroke Pathway Using Artificial Intelligence Decision Aid Tool
  • Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICS and HN - Preventing 34% of A&E attendances and significantly reducing health inequalities using an AI guided clinical coaching programme
  • University Hospitals of Leicester Trust - Atrial Fibrillation Virtual Ward
  • Welsh Ambulance Services Trust & Terrafix Limited - Introduction, Deployment and Integration of the Terrapace electronic Patient Clinical Record into the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust
Moving Towards Net Zero Through Digital

 


WINNER:  NHS Wales in partnership with The Institute of Clinical Science and Technology - The sustainable inhaler prescribing toolkit

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Barts Health Trust and SedateUK - SEDlog: digitising sedation practice towards net zero

Finalists:

  • Barts Heart Centre, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Barts Health Trust - Digitalisation of Electrocardiograms (ECGs) at Barts Health Care NHS Trust: Service development from online requesting to delivering online ECGs at four large hospitals. “Every ECG – A Digital ECG”
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB - The move to Net Zero in NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICS in partnership with Redmoor Health
  • Mobilityways - Mobilityways; Making Zero Carbon Commuting a reality
  • North East London ICB and Medefer - Environmental sustainability through virtual care
  • Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust - Implementing and Embedding Digital Healthcare on a Global Scale
Optimising Clinical Pathways through Digital

 


WINNER:  Chelsea and Westminster Hospital FT, Preventx, Lloyds Pharmacy Online Doctor and the City of London Corporation - Sexual Health London

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Royal Berkshire FT - Digital Transformation of Acute Stroke Pathway Using Artificial Intelligence Decision Aid Tool.

Finalists:

  • Calderdale and Huddersfield FT and The Health Informatics Service - Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS FT's EMIS/ Cerner Integration Project
  • Frimley Health and Care ICS - Digitally Led Hypertension Care
  • Hywel Dda University Health Board - Virtual Orthopaedic Prehabilitation- optimising elective care pathways through digital solutions
  • Moorfields Eye Hospital FT - Digital Cataract Service - Modernising the management process of the oldest eye disease
  • NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Lenus Health - Transforming COPD care with data and AI - The DYNAMIC Project
  • North and South London Cardiac Operational Delivery Networks - Deployment of a pan London Cardiac elective care virtual ward
  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals FT - Using Artificial Intelligence to Accurately Assess the Heart on MRI Scans
Reducing Health Inequalities through Digital

 


WINNER:  Midlands Partnership FT - Reducing Health Inequalities through the Sandbox Digital Mental Health Platform

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Frimley Health and Care ICS - Reducing Health Inequalities in Slough

Finalists:

  • Calderdale and Huddersfield FT - Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS FT's Population Health review and its impact on Health Inequalities
  • Frimley Health and Care ICS - Digitally Led Hypertension Care
  • HEAL-D in partnership with the Health Innovation Network - Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyles for Diabetes (HEAL-D) Online for adults of African or Caribbean heritage
  • NHS England (London Region), iPLATO, North of England CSU - Reducing inequalities in cervical cancer incidence and mortality through GP endorsed Cervical Screening SMS RemindersLondon
  • NHS Health Call and AHSN North East and North Cumbria - Reducing the Physical Health Gap for people with Severe Mental Illness through digital innovation
  • North Middlesex University Hospital Trust - Closing the gap between glycaemic control and health inequalities in Paediatric Diabetes
  • People Unlimited in partnership with Health Education England - Crisis Tools Guides for supporting young Black men
Replicating Digital Best Practice Award

 


WINNER:  LLR ICB and Spirit Health - From pilots to pioneering partnerships: Scaling up virtual wards to transform care across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICS

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Sheffield Children's FT - Sheffield Children's Digital Resource Library

Finalists:

  • Association for Perioperative Practice - Surgical Skin Prep Decision Tool
  • Barts Health Trust and SedateUK - SEDlog app: moving from paper to digital sedation logbook
  • Gloucestershire Hospitals FT - Electronic Prescribing at Gloucestershire Hospitals
  • NHS England - NHS England Reproducible Analytical Pipelines Rollout
  • NHS Health Call - Digital Care Homes
  • North West Anglia Foundation Trust and K2MS Digital maternity specialists - Digital Fetal early warning score system (Digital FEWS) – Support to deliver Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle initiative in NHS
  • Surrey and Borders Partnership FT - Improving handover practice for Home Treatment Teams using an SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation) integrated into the Electronic Health Record
Supporting Elective Recovery Through Digital

 


WINNER:  Cheshire and Merseyside ICS and C2-Ai - Globally unique AI-backed system supporting prioritisation based on clinical risk - reducing emergency admissions by 8% and saving 125 bed-days/1000 patients

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  North and South London Cardiac Operational Delivery Networks - Deployment of a pan London cardiac elective care virtual ward

Finalists:

  • Calderdale and Huddersfield FT - Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS FT's Patient Prioritisation through M-page
  • Gateshead Health FT - Digital Portfolio to support Breast Services Elective Recovery
  • Guy’s and St Thomas' FT - EndominerAI - A NLP based automator for guideline-based prediction of follow up endoscopies for patients with Barrett's oesophagus.
  • Hywel Dda University Health Board - Virtual Orthopaedic Prehabilitation- optimising preoperative care through digital solutions
  • London North West University Healthcare Trust - Supporting Elective Recovery through Digital Pre-Operative Assessment
  • Mid and South Essex FT - eConsult - Virtual Outpatient Platform
  • University Hospitals of Leicester Trust and Accurx - Simple tech to slash waiting lists