About the Awards
The RLDatix Awards 2026 celebrate the teams and individuals across health and care who are driving safer, smarter, and more connected care.
In an environment of growing expectations and evolving reform, these awards recognise those who innovate, lead, and create meaningful impact for patients, residents, communities, and the workforce.
Why Submit for the RLDatix Awards?
What does it really mean to submit for an award — and what impact can it have on your team?
In this short video, Leanne Lind, Head of Policy Governance at St John of God Health Care, shares their experience as a 2025 RLDatix Awards winner.
Leanne reflects on:
- Why they decided to submit their work
- The advice she’d give to others considering an entry
- What winning meant for her team, their organisation, and the recognition of their efforts
Whether you’re unsure if your initiative is “award-worthy” or simply short on time, this conversation offers a genuine, practical perspective on why it’s worth taking that step.
👉 If you’ve ever paused and thought, “We’re doing good work — but is it enough?”, this video is for you.
Thinking about submitting this year?
Your work doesn’t need to be perfect — your day to day work if always making a difference.
Explore the award categories and take the first step.
Award Categories
For 2026, we are proud to launch five refreshed award categories, reflecting the achievements, leadership, and innovation shaping the future of care.
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.
This category is for projects that have:
- Strengthened workforce experience through digital tools
- Improved communication, access to information, or shift visibility
- Enabled more flexible or autonomous working
Delivering Safer Care
Celebrating work that reduces harm, strengthens governance, and improves the systems and behaviours that support safer care for patients and staff.
This category is for projects that have:
- Reduced harm or risk through improved systems, oversight, or processes
- Supported better safety governance or decision-making
- Embedded learning from incidents
Driving Productivity and Operational Excellence
Celebrating measurable improvements in care delivery that drive efficiency, quality, and impact.Recognising initiatives that enable teams to deliver safer, higher-value care through smarter use of resources and better operational design.
This category is for projects that have:
- Improved how services are staffed, scheduled, or delivered
- Increased productivity through more effective planning or redesign
- Simplified workflows or care pathways to boost efficiency
- Delivered measurable time or cost savings while maintaining or improving care quality
- Enabled teams to deliver more or higher-value care with the same or fewer resources
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.
This category is for projects that have:
- Used data to identify trends, risks, or opportunities
- Taken action based on workforce, safety, or operational insight
- Strengthened planning or decision-making through better use of information
Need a hand writing your submission?
We've written you a helpful guide with 7 top tips to writing an award-winning entry.
