The time has finally come to share the winning and highly commended entries in the HTN Awards 2025!
After a fantastic response and entries spanning every corner of the health tech arena; we are delighted to thank all of those who entered, and, of course, to offer a huge congratulations to our winners!
All of the entries received were testament to the incredible hard work taking place, and showcased a huge range of different ways that technology is driving transformation, enhancing care for patients, and supporting clinicians in their daily roles.
We’d also like to extend a big thank you to our wonderful panel of judges, made up of experienced and esteemed NHS professionals from across the health and care sector, who carefully reviewed each entry.
Without further ado, let’s meet our winners!
Most promising pilot
Andrew Mikhail, director of pharmacy and CCIO at Practice Plus Group, introduced our winner and runners up in this category.
Winner: Map My Mole by Community Dermatology
Congratulations to Community Dermatology on their winning entry!
Map My Mole offers a simple but effective intervention: patients receive a dermoscopic lens, a Dyplens, and access to an app guiding them through high-quality mole photography. Images are reviewed by UK-based consultant dermatologists, often within 24-48 hours, down from weeks, reducing patient anxiety and speeding up diagnosis and treatment where needed. For those without smartphones or confidence, community alternatives (pharmacies, mobile HCAs) provide flexible, equitable access. From March – June 2024, Map My Mole was trialled across three GP sites in Devon and Cornwall. Results included 1,126 cases reviewed, 989 GP appointments saved – buying GPs back 14,835 minutes, and two-week-wait referrals reduced by 64 percent.
We’d also like to congratulate our highly commended entries: Holmusk UK/Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust for their MaST Inpatient Safety Index; and Inhealthcare (Resmed) and Royal United Hospitals Bath for their digital rheumatology service.
Innovation of the Year
We welcomed Stuart Thomas, head of UK digital projects at Priory Group, to announce the winning and highly commended entries in this category.
Winner: Strolll: Rewriting rehab through augmented reality
Congratulations to Strolll on winning this category!
Strolll is a digital therapeutic platform that delivers gamified augmented reality rehabilitation through lightweight smart glasses. Instead of sporadic appointments or paper handouts, patients can engage in interactive rehab exercises anytime. Picture a patient walking down a virtual forest path overlaid on their hospital corridor, stepping over virtual logs to practise their gait, or reaching out to catch virtual objects to improve their balance. All the while, the AR system is delivering proven therapy exercises in the form of a game, one that’s fun, safe, and designed by clinicians and patients. Clinical trials published in 2024 demonstrated that using Strolll, clinicians were able to deliver up to seven times more treatment sessions with significantly less staff time required.
Congratulations also go to our highly commended entry from Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust on automated vital signs integration.
Best solution for clinicians
Siten Roy, orthopaedic consultant at Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, announced this category’s winners and highly commended.
Winner: Daysix Ltd: The Trauma App
Congratulations to Daysix Ltd for their winning entry!
The Trauma App is the result of a co-design and development process with clinicians from all major trauma centres (MTCs) in NHS Scotland, extensive clinical trials and peer review. The Trauma App reduces inefficiencies by providing robust, time-stamped, real-time data collection at the point of care via an intuitive iPad interface. It captures the full trauma case from standby call to patient discharge, including 34 key interventions, patient movements, and vital signs, instantly visible within the app and the hospital’s EPR. Decision support features assist clinicians in making faster, safer decisions. Testing shows a reduction in administrative burden by 60 percent, and a saving of 80 percent of senior clinician time in sign-off.
Congratulations also go to our highly commended entry: The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust for PACENET Pulse – Transforming cardiac device management for clinicians.
Best use of digital and data for NHS trusts
Anwesha Ghoshal, marketing and events executive at T-Pro, joined us to announce the winners and highly commended for this category.
Winner: Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust: CDS recovery through FDP
Congratulations to Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust on winning this category!
In December, the trust proactively engaged with NHS England and the national FDP team to explore opportunities for strategic support. What followed was an exceptional cross-organisational effort that brought together close technical collaboration between FDP developers and the trust’s internal Data Warehouse team, with support from SMEs across key areas of the organisation. The team met the critical 2024/25 year-end refresh. The trust successfully reinstated its national data submissions, including CDS and SLAM, allowing it to meet statutory reporting requirements and avoid financial and compliance risks.
Congratulations also to our highly commended entry, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust for their project focusing on implementing OPTICA to improve discharge planning.
Best use of digital for improving care pathways
We were joined by Nate Reynolds, operations administrator with SymPhysis Medical, who announced our winning and highly commended entries in this category.
Winner: Bolton NHS Foundation Trust: Bolton joins up and accelerates district nurse referrals across secondary and community care using Sunrise EPR
Congratulations to Bolton NHS Foundation Trust for their winning entry!
The trust decided that to mitigate the issues and optimise the process, district nurse referrals should be requested within the central Sunrise EPR. The configuration of the referral form included mandatory elements, embedded guidance and pop-up messages, and conditional logic to ensure the forms were accurately completed. This has meant that there are now fewer inappropriate referrals received, and the district nurses receive all crucial data elements that help them assess, prioritise, and schedule ongoing care. With the district nurse referrals built into the EPR, clinicians can access the form as part of their regular workflows. Within the first full month of being live, more than 230 referrals were processed.
Congratulations also go to our highly commended entry: Medway Council Public Health and Health Diagnostics for their work on digital transforming prevention and tackling inequality through community-led health checks.
Best health tech solution of the year
Announcing the winner for this category is Adele Madin, director of operations at East Coast Community Healthcare.
Winner: Liva Healthcare
While 14 entries were shortlisted for this category, congratulations are in order for Liva Healthcare for coming out on top.
Liva’s patient-facing app promotes engagement and adherence through in-app goal tracking and personal coaching. Patients receive support via in-app messaging and video consultations with trained health coaches, as well as access to educational resources and a supportive community of peers with similar health goals. The clinician portal enables health coaches to monitor patient progress, track key metrics, and coordinate appointments efficiently. Liva Healthcare is a commissioned provider of the Healthier You NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme (NDPP) in 15 ICBs, the NHS Digital Weight Management Programme, and the NHS Type 2 Diabetes Path to Remission Programme.
We’d also like to congratulate our highly commended entry, Careology Health, whose project centred around transforming the cancer care pathway with intelligent and integrated digital support.
Major project go live
Joining us to announce this category is Toby Nelson, consultant dermatologist and co-founder of Community Dermatology Ltd.
Winner: UCLPartners, North East London ICB and Health Navigator
Congratulations to UCLPartners, North East London ICB and Health Navigator for submitting the winning entry in a very competitive category!
In 2024, NHS North East London launched a 3-year AI-driven clinical coaching programme with Health Navigator and UCLPartners, offering personalised proactive care, targeting patients at high risk of accessing unplanned care. At its core is HN’s AI identified clinical coaching (AICC) service, comprising HN Predict’s high precision AI case finding of patients at high risk of needing unplanned emergency care up to six months in advance; HN Engage’s Patient Engagement and Screening Platform to facilitate the referral and engagement process for the clinical coaching intervention; and HN Proactive, which facilitates the operational process of referral, engagement and delivery. Personalised clinical coaching is delivered by healthcare professionals.
We’d also like to congratulate our highly commended entry, Nervecentre Software, for their success in deploying Nervecentre’s cloud-based EPR platform in six hospitals.
Patient portal project of the year
Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria’s Rachael Barham, digital transformation programme manager, announced our winning and highly commended entries for this category.
Winner: Think Healthcare (Focus Group): The patient portal you can call
Congratulations to Think Healthcare (Focus Group) for coming top of this category!
Virtual Care Navigator (VCN) delivers by phone integration, with prescription requests and queries, a spoken menu that walks patients through options, and tasks written to EPS prescriptions queue SystmOne. Fit note (Med 3) request captures details, creates task in “Admin – Med3” slot. Clinical coding is applied automatically. Call audit confirmed 60 percent of traffic was administrative. The solution resulted in 1,500 fewer inbound calls every month – freeing two WTE receptionists for patient-facing work. The Google rating climbed from 2.1 to 4.3 stars, whilst 24/7 self-service now handles 60 percent of admin demand, meaning zero queue time for those tasks. The reception team reports lower stress and fewer complaints about “not getting through”.
We’d also like to extend our congratulations to Health and Care Innovations Limited: CONNECTPlus for being our highly commended entry in this category for their patient portal empowering individuals through their healthcare journey.
Digital inclusion and improving health inequalities
Simon Moore, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s associate director of procurement, joined us to announce this category’s winning and highly commended entries.
Winner: As Simple As That Technologies LTD (ASAT): Making medical language understandable for all
Congratulations to As Simple As That Technologies LTD on their winning entry!
ASAT transforms dense medical language into clear, accessible, and personalised formats using natural language processing and linguistic simplification rules. Key features include plain language rewriting of medical text, tailored to individual comprehension levels, simple actionable instructions for post-care or medication use, and optional read-aloud functionality for those with reading difficulties. ASAT is currently in clinical pilot at a rehabilitation hospital in Israel. Early results are promising: clinicians report significantly less time spent explaining documents, while patients and caregivers express improved clarity and confidence in post-hospital care.
Congratulations also go to our highly commended entry, First 4 Health Group for their work on equity-led digital transformation in primary care.
Well done to everyone involved and the impact you make!
And with that, the HTN Awards once again draws to a close. A huge congratulations to our winners and highly commended entries, and to every single one of our finalists. We can’t wait to hear what you do next!
