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.
WINNER:
Implementation of SafeCare to Enhance the Safe Staffing Framework – Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended:
Building a Connected and Digitally Enabled Workforce – Priory
Delivering Safer Care
Celebrating work that reduces harm, strengthens governance, and improves the systems and behaviours that support safer care for patients and staff.
WINNER:
Trust Oversight and Monitoring of Patients Detained Under the Mental Health Act in an Acute Hospital Trust – York and Scarborough Teaching Hospital Trust
Highly Commended:
From Budget vs Establishment to Safe Care: Giving Community Inpatient Teams Confidence to Make the Right Call – Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Transforming Workforce Wellbeing and Flexibility
Recognising initiatives that support staff wellbeing, promote flexibility, and create better working conditions for those delivering care.
WINNER:
Rostering for Workforce Wellbeing: Flexible, Fair, and Fit for the Future – The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended:
Digital Solution for Flexible Working Requests – Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Collaborative Excellence in Working Together to Improve Care
Celebrating collaborative projects that improve care through leadership, planning, or delivery across organisations, sectors, or regions.
WINNER:
Learning Disability and Autism Awareness Education – North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended:
Beyond Admission: A Youth Worker approach to holistic care for young people with mental health in Gloucestershire – Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Driving Productivity and Operational Excellence
Recognising measurable improvements in care delivery through better planning, resource use, or operational performance.
WINNER:
Streamlining Workforce and Payroll Operations Across 34 Hospitals – Ramsay Health Care UK
Highly Commended:
Workforce Metrics Forecasting & Predictive Modelling – Sickness absence and Workforce Planning – Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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.
WINNER:
Supporting Urgent Requests for End‑of‑Life Certification (SURE) Pathwa – East Berkshire Primary Care
Highly Commended:
Workforce Efficiencies Improvement Programme – NHS South Yorkshire ICB
Learning and Improvement Through Reporting and Safety Insight
Recognising how organisations have strengthened safety culture by using reporting and learning systems to drive improvement.
WINNER:
From Assurance to Learning: Ward Quality and Safety Improvement – University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust
Highly Commended:
From Learning from Incidents to PSIRF-Driven Quality Improvement – Barts Health NHS trust
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.
WINNER:
Using Datix Data to Support Proactive Perioperative Safety – Barts Health NHS Trust
Highly Commended:
Turning Data into Confidence: How Real Time Insight Improved Care, Staffing and Sustainability – Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Legacy of Impact Award
Honouring long-term achievements that have delivered lasting improvements in care, safety, or workforce experience.
WINNER:
Digital Volunteers – The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended:
Erostering – GMMH Collaboration Approach 2025 – Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
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