This Year’s Shortlist

The RLDatix Awards 2025 shortlist celebrates teams and organisations making a real difference across health and care. This year we received an outstanding range of entries, reflecting the creativity, commitment and impact of people working to deliver safer care, support colleagues and drive improvement.

On this page you’ll find the shortlisted projects by category, including their titles and organisations.

Congratulations to everyone shortlisted – the winners will be revealed at the RLDatix Awards ceremony on 21st October 2025.

Award Categories

The 2025 shortlist spans 10 categories, each recognising achievements in different areas of health and care.

On this page you'll find the shortlisted projects by category, including their titles and organisations. More details on each shortlisted entry are available on our Every Voice Counts page. 

Digital Solutions Empowering the Workforce

Recognising the use of digital tools to improve workforce experience, collaboration, and care delivery. This award celebrates the use of technology that helps people work more effectively and feel more connected.

Shortlisted Projects:

  • Erostering Implementation 2.0
    – Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS FT
  • Robotic Process Automation in Recruitment
    – Kent Community Health NHS FT 
  • Job Planning the Medical Workforce
    – Whittington Health NHS Trust

Delivering Safer Care

Celebrating work that reduces harm, strengthens governance, and improves the systems and behaviours that support safer care for patients and staff.

Shortlisted Projects:

  • Enhanced Observation
    – London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Transforming clinical governance: a collaborative and coordinated approach to patient safety
    – Barnsley Hospital NHS FT
  • PATH
    – Belfast Health & Social Care Trust

Transforming Workforce Wellbeing and Flexibility

Recognising initiatives that support staff wellbeing, promote flexibility, and create better working conditions for those delivering care.

Shortlisted Projects:

  • GMMH Rostering Dream Team 2025
    – Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS FT
  • Team Based Rostering
    – London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Valuing Our Bank Workforce: Boosting Fill Rates and Reducing Agency Spend
    – Northumbria Healthcare NHS FT

Collaborative Excellence in Integrated and System-Wide Care

Celebrating collaborative projects that improve care through leadership, planning, or delivery across organisations, sectors, or regions.

Shortlisted Projects:

  • People Digital Programme
    – BLMK ICB
  • Newly Qualified Recruitment Collaboration
    – Coventry and Warwickshire System - UHCW, GEH, SWFT, CWPT, GP Alliance, Coventry University

Outstanding Care Across Non-Acute Settings

This award recognises services and teams that are improving outcomes and delivering safe, effective care in community, social care, or virtual environments.

Shortlisted Projects:

  • Transforming Workforce Management: A Six-Year Digital Evolution
    – Barchester Healthcare
  • Empowering Community Nursing Through eCommunity
    – North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS FT
  • Hospital at Home – New Wards
    – Northumbria Healthcare NHS FT

Driving Productivity and Operational Excellence

Recognising measurable improvements in care delivery through better planning, resource use, or operational performance.

Shortlisted Projects:

  • Transforming Workforce Efficiency and Financial Governance
    – Frimley Health NHS FT
  • Improving Safer Staffing Governance through Oversight and Partnership Working
    – Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS FT
  • Optimising Inpatient Staffing: Net Hours Reduction and Roster Efficiency Programme
    – Liverpool University Hospitals NHS FT

Efficient and Impactful Care Delivery

Celebrating improvements that have made care more efficient while protecting quality and outcomes, through simpler systems or smarter use of resources.

Shortlisted Projects:

  • Transforming Community Nursing Efficiency with eCommunity
    – Midlands Partnership NHS FT
  • Reducing Registered Bank and Agency Spend
    – United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Go Decaf!
    – Northumbria Healthcare NHS FT

Learning and Improvement Through Incident Reporting

Recognising how organisations have strengthened safety culture by using reporting and learning systems to drive improvement.

Shortlisted Projects:

  • Turning Awareness into Action: Sexual Assault & DV Support
    – Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS FT
  • Seclusion Episode Monitoring
    – Priory Hospital Burgess Hill
  • Advancing Access to Learning from Patient Safety Events
    – Northumbria Healthcare NHS FT

Improving Care Through Data and Insight

Celebrating the use of data to drive change – from identifying risks to making better decisions and improving care or workforce outcomes.

Shortlisted Projects:

  • Building Data-Driven Rostering Excellence Through Collaboration and Insight
    – London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Use of RLDatix DCIQ and Yellowfin to improve Data Insight and Consistency
    – Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS FT
  • Strategic Workforce Planning: From Challenge to Capability
    – Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS FT

Legacy of Impact Award

Honouring long-term achievements that have delivered lasting improvements in care, safety, or workforce experience.

Shortlisted Projects:

  • Maximising Workforce Availability to Reduce Agency Usage
    – Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS FT
  • Temporary Staffing Spend Reduction & Workforce Optimisation Programme
    – Liverpool University Hospitals NHS FT
  • Safer Staffing Long Term Improvement Initiative
    – Northumbria Healthcare NHS FT

Want to learn more about the shortlisted projects?

Discover them in detial on our Every Voice Counts page.

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