The 2022 Award Categories

Celebrating the cutting edge of digital and health tech innovation

  • The Digital Team of the Year award celebrates the achievements of collaborative and multidisciplinary teams who have demonstrated excellence in the deployment of digital services and transformation, positively impacting patient and staff outcomes to deliver unexpected and unprecedented results within their area of health tech innovation.

    2022 finalists:

    Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust – Innovation & Intelligent Automation (IIA) Team

    The NHS Lancashire Procurement Cluster Logistics and Supply Chain ELHT Theatre Team

    The v.FND Service, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  • The Unexpected Innovator of the year award will highlight nominees who have been synonymous in driving forward great change in digital healthcare leading to significant impact for patient outcomes or services.

    2022 finalists:

    Myles Ackley, Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

    Wendy Blumenow,

    Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

    Clare Cassidy, Technical Architect at Northwest Shared Infrastructure Services

    Avie Luthra, Barnet, Enfield & Haringey NHS Trust (BEH)

  • This award recognises projects adopting a digital-first model in the provision of primary care. Nominees will have taken a person-centred approach to delivering this project, incorporating the core attributes of general practice: continuity, coordination and community focus.

    2022 finalists:

    Digital Mental Health Programme, Scotland

    Gillingham South Primary Care Network and NHS South, Central and West (SCW)

    Soar Beyond Heart Failure Project Team with North Bristol NHS Trust & NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board

  • The Disruptive Technology Award recognises the most daring success stories in innovation. This award will shine a light on the most creative and disruptive health tech solutions revolutionising patient care this past year.

    2022 finalists:

    Digital Health and Care Wales – National Digital Design for Looked After Children Services

    Princess Alexandra Hospital, Alertive App

    Queen Victoria Hospital: Community Diagnostic Centre – End to End System Pathway

  • The Integrated Care Collaboration award recognises the collaborative projects, directives, and initiatives that demonstrate the power that integrated care has to offer. Nominees can demonstrate their strategy’s capacity to deliver integrated care that problem solves by engaging partners throughout the system.

    2022 finalists:

    Digital Health and Care Wales – National Digital Design for Looked After Children Services

    NHS England, AHSN Network and Health Innovation Manchester – National Innovation Collaborative for Digital Health

    Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust And ICS – Patient Flow Dashboard

  • The User-centered Design Award highlights the individuals or teams who have demonstrated outstanding innovation and user-centered design (UCD) for digital tools, systems, or services delivered across primary, secondary, or community care.

    2022 finalists:

    UCLPartners Proactive Care Frameworks

    University Hospitals Plymouth – SeeEHR

    Surrey and Borders Foundation Trust – Design Team Magma

  • The Digital Service for children and young people award recognises excellence in digital service provision designed for children, young people and their families.

    2022 finalists:

    Digital Futures Team, Paediatric Child and Adolescent Mental Health Team Torbay & South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

    Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

    Impact VR – Sheffield Hallam University

  • The Data Innovation award recognises digital product or services that can demonstrate measurable impacts and outcomes delivered in big data projects over the last year.

    2022 finalists:

    CogStack Team

    WNB AI Tool – Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

    RPA EDYS Team -Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

    Long Stay Risk Score – Gloucestershire Hospitals Trust

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    The Best Digital Innovation in Mental Health award showcases industry leading services or solutions pioneering in the provision of digitally-enabled mental healthcare.

    2022 finalists:

    Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

    South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

    Wysa / Dorset HealthCare

  • The Best Designed Virtual Service award showcases teams who deliver to exceptional standard demonstrating user-centred design at a practical service level. Supporting patients to be seen in a virtual setting that meets the needs of the patient, practitioner and the system.

    2022 finalists:

    Cush Health Digital Platform (NHS Clinical Entrepreneurs)

    The v.FND Service, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    Medway Foundation Trust – SMART Service

  • The Trojan Mouse award seeks to highlight an individual who has made impactful and meaningful changes through a steady and incremental approach to digital transformation. Their dedication and focus enables an agile approach to innovation and for teams and organisations to adapt to optimise new ways of working.

    2022 finalists:

    The Digital Cataract Service Team at Moorfields Eye Centre Croydon

    Linda Skinner – Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

    Kumbi Kariwo – Birmingham Community Health Care Foundation Trust

  • Nominees will demonstrate their dedication to adapting and supporting their workforce to thrive in digitally enabled health and care settings. Best practice application of tools and use of resources to simplify and streamline workforce processes. Meaningful engagement with digital upskilling and continued development for all areas of the workforce from frontline nurses, senior consultants, to back-office admin.

    2022 finalists:

    Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

    NHS Covid-19 Digital Staff Passport Team, NHS England

    Medicine Division Workforce Team (RSCH & PRH Hospitals), University Hospitals Sussex

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  • Nominees will have demonstrated a reactive and agile approach when working with clients or other industry players, allowing for flexibility and response in their design to service leading to important end results.

    2022 finalists:

    ORCHA

    Better

    Sapien Health

  • The award category seeks to highlight the most inventive solution/delivery of service that is at the forefront of best practice in solving a current and wicked healthcare problem.

    2022 finalists:

    Definition Health

    Diligram Limited

    Infinity Health