Health Tech Awards 2026: Meet the Winners
The time has finally come to share the winning and highly commended entries in the HTN Awards 2026!
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 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!
Innovation of the year
Dawn Greaves, CDIO at Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, joined us to announce the winner and runner-up in this category.
Winner: Proximie: The Intelligence Suite
Congratulations to Proximie on their winning entry!
The Intelligence Suite combines several capabilities: Ambient data capture that continuously records workflow signals across the surgical pathway; computer vision technology that identifies and analyses key surgical events and process milestones in real time; workflow orchestration tools that help keep teams aligned; AI-powered analytics that surface inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement in real time; and predictive capabilities and automated notifications. An independent evaluation was undertaken at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. Implemented across robotic thoracic surgery lists, the platform provided visibility into every stage of the operative pathway. By acting on the insights generated, the surgical team reduced procedure durations by nearly 20 minutes per case. The result was the ability to complete one additional procedure per daily list.
We’d also like to congratulate our highly commended entry: FibroFind: the patented human tissue bioreactor platform transforming fibrosis drug development.
Best use of digital and data for NHS Trust
Delphine Fitouri, head of digital services at Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust, joined us to announce the winner and runner-up in this category.
Winner: North West London: One shared platform for safer care across North West London
Congratulations to North West London on their winning entry!
Supported by InterSystems, North West London’s four acute trusts consolidated their separate integration platforms into one shared cloud platform, using InterSystems Health Connect Cloud. Clinical and operational colleagues helped set priorities, identifying the connections that mattered most for safe care, including radiology, results, and alerts. Since consolidation, North West London has delivered nine cross-system projects through the shared platform, with eight more in development. For a medium-complexity interface, delivery effort fell from 171 person-days to 79 person-days, saving more than 50 percent of the work previously required. The platform now processes around 3.2 billion messages a year, including the information staff need to manage appointments, review results, receive alerts, share documents, and make decisions.
We’d also like to congratulate our highly commended entry: Aire Innovate: Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust digital ePROMs transforming paediatric psychological care insights.
Digital inclusion and improving health inequalities
Molly Sobola, chief clinical physiologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, joined us to announce the winner and runner-up in this category.
Winner: Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust: From excluded to engaged: How Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust stopped communication being a barrier to care
Congratulations to Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust on their winning entry!
Working in partnership with Netcall, the trust set out to redesign the entire patient communication pathway around the needs of the people most likely to be excluded by it. Patients can now receive communications in translated letters and SMS across more than a dozen languages, and Braille output, large print, colour contrast formats and British Sign Language resources are all available. Neurodiverse-friendly communications and compassionate maternity messaging, developed with women who had lived experience of pregnancy loss, are part of the standard pathway. Multilingual uptake has increased substantially since personalised translated communication became available, including 650 percent for Portuguese. DNA rates have fallen by 20 percent, over 30,000 letters have been accessed digitally, and financial savings are around £5,000 per month.
We’d also like to congratulate our highly commended entry: Frome Medical Practice, for their work on bridging the digital divide and reducing health inequalities through inclusive care.
Digital patient project of the year
Al Jhon Quizzagan, charge nurse in nuclear medicine at Medway NHS Foundation Trust, joined us to announce the winner and runner-up in this category.
Winner: OstomySecure Ltd: TIES® Smart Lid System
Congratulations to OstomySecure Ltd on their winning entry!
The TIES® system with its i-Lid is equipped with sensors connected to the OstomySecure digital application for real-time monitoring and patient-clinician communication. An enhanced emptying system supports controlled, on-demand drainage. These patient-facing components are enabled by the hybrid TIES® implant. Together, they are designed to enable patient-controlled, adhesive-free stoma management without the need for a permanent stoma bag. The TIES® Smart Lid System incorporates a smart sliding hatch which is pressure and temperature sensing with open/closed state detection; a disposable lid; and a USB-C charging, inductive charging interface, compact bedside form factor. The mobile application is being developed for both iOS and Android platforms and is designed to provide patients with intuitive real-time monitoring, historical trend analysis, personalised alerts and device management functionality.
We’d also like to congratulate our highly commended entry: Sanius Health for their MyMM digital patient support programme supporting people with multiple myeloma (MM) between appointments.
Major project go live
Lee Rickles, CIO at Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust and Interweave, joined us to announce the winner and runner-up in this category.
Winner: Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Altera Digital Health: Queen Victoria Hospital’s EPR go-live in partnership with Altera Digital Health
Congratulations to Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Altera Digital Health on their winning entry!
Training was delivered through e-learning, supported by follow-up sessions and practical support. 97 percent of staff completed training, 120 Digital Champions were deployed, 24/7 on-site support was provided for the first three weeks, and a central Command Centre enabled real-time issue resolution. The trust maintained 99.5 percent performance against the four-hour standard within MIU, with no breaches and no cancellations in outpatient or theatre services. In the first months following go-live, clinicians created nearly 100,000 clinical documents and prescribed nearly 40,000 medicines, with more than 87,000 medicines administrations completed electronically through ePMA. Staff accessed other trust systems more than 430,000 times using integrated patient context links.
We’d also like to congratulate our highly commended entry: Dosium, for their project: Touchdose at West London Children’s Healthcare: BNFC-governed paediatric prescribing operationalised in NHS Cerner ePMA.
Best use of digital for improving care pathways
Erika Radford, head of information and support services at the Royal Osteoporosis Society, joined us to announce the winner and runner-up in this category.
Winner: University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and Isla Health: Digital, used well: Improving care pathways from days to minutes
Congratulations to University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and Isla Health on their winning entry!
Working with Isla Health, the trust set out to improve care pathways by rebuilding triage, treatment, and monitoring as an asynchronous, digital-first model. Patients submit clinical-grade photos, seizure videos, validated PROMs, and digital forms from home through a secure SMS or email link. Everything sits inside the trust’s existing systems, integrated with the PAS and Mediviewer, so clinicians work from one record. The improved pathway runs across 15 specialties. UHN has safely deflected 36 percent of face-to-face follow-ups, resolved 75 percent of triaged cases the same day, and lifted clinic capacity 3.8 times without growing headcount. It has returned 5.4 percent of tissue-viability nurses’ working days to direct care and accelerated 18-week RTT performance by up to 85 percent, using patient-initiated follow-up and risk-adjusted triage to fast-track complex cases and safely step down low-risk ones.
We’d also like to congratulate our highly commended entry: Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and their work on digital referral redesign for Emergency Department mental health patients.
Best solution for clinicians
Dan Bunstone, GP and clinical director for Warrington Innovation Network, joined us to announce the winner and runner-up in this category.
Winner: GP Triage: Giving clinicians their time back through autonomous AI triage
Congratulations to GP Triage on their winning entry!
GP Triage conducts a dynamic, doctor-like clinical history, screening red flags first, then adapting its questions to the patient’s answers. In roughly 90 seconds it assesses urgency, risk-stratifies the patient, and then acts: booking them directly into the correct EMIS or SystmOne appointment slot, or safely signposting them to Pharmacy First, self-care, 111 or out-of-hours. Every request arrives at the practice pre-triaged, risk-stratified and already booked, with a structured summary pushed into the clinical system. The triage module is as a Class 2B medical device with full DCB0129 and DCB0160 clinical safety documentation. To date it has processed over 2 million triages with zero recorded clinical safety issues and 97 percent concordance with GP decision-making. At Swanscombe Health Centre (37,000 patients), within four weeks of go-live, GP Triage booked 5,068 appointments autonomously and returned over 422 clinical and admin hours.
We’d also like to congratulate our highly commended entry: Lantum and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust for their work on transforming rostering with AI at GSTT.
Best health tech solution of the year
Steve Jones, principal clinical psychologist at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, joined us to announce the winner and runner-up in this category.
Winner: Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust: Putting patients first: Faster medicines access through digital community prescribing – community EPS
Congratulations to Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust on their winning entry!
Launched in December 2025, EPS transformed community prescribing from a paper-based process into a fully digital, real-time workflow. Initially focused on palliative care and heart failure services, the solution has since expanded across respiratory, virtual wards, urgent community response, urgent primary care services, musculoskeletal, district nursing, care homes and health visiting services. The project was delivered through optimisation of existing digital infrastructure. Today, clinicians can access prescribing guidance, medication history, interaction checking, formulation information and drug costs from a single screen. Between September 2025 and March 2026, EPS supported 49,307 prescribed medicines. The virtual ward team alone reports average travel reductions of 2 hours per staff member each week.
We’d also like to congratulate our highly commended entry: Suvera, for their work on proactive recall on auto-pilot, at scale!
Partnership of the year
Emma Dew, director of customer success and marketing at CLEO Systems, joined us to announce the winner and runner-up in this category.
Winner: NHS North East London ICB, UCLPartners, and Health Navigator: AI for urgent and emergency care prevention
Congratulations to North East London ICB, UCLPartners, and Health Navigator on their winning entry!
In 2024, NEL ICB, UCLPartners, and Health Navigator secured £13.5 million from NHS England to deliver a three-year AI for UEC prevention programme. Together, these partners have delivered a programme that uses AI and routinely collected hospital data to identify people at high risk of unplanned hospital use—specifically those likely to experience three or more unplanned bed days within the next six months. Once identified, individuals are offered personalised, phone-based clinical coaching to support self-management, prevent crises, and reduce reliance on urgent and emergency services. A key enabler of this collaboration has been NEL ICB’s Secure Data Environment (SDE). More than 5,000 patients have received or are receiving coaching, with many reporting improved confidence, better self-management, and reduced need for urgent care.
We’d also like to congratulate our highly commended entry: Cogniss for their project: Building for the 51 percent: Cogniss and NHS innovation partners unite to accelerate women’s digital health.
Cyber security solution of the year
Jonathan Batchelor, CEO of What Caused This, joined us to announce the winner and runner-up in this category.
Winner: Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust and Mobstr: Transforming mobile application security through automation
Congratulations to Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust and Mobstr on their winning entry!
Mobstr provides automated analysis of applications and browser extensions, enabling the trust to rapidly identify security, privacy and compliance risks. The platform examines a wide range of indicators, including application permissions, data transmission behaviour, encryption practices, embedded software components, known vulnerabilities and third-party data sharing activities. Mobstr delivers an automated risk assessment that highlights areas of concern and provides clear risk ratings. Applications that previously required hours of manual investigation can now be assessed automatically. By providing visibility into how applications handle data, what permissions they request and what external services they communicate with, the platform helps ensure that only appropriate and secure applications are introduced into the trust’s environment.
We’d also like to congratulate our highly commended entry: Guardsquare, for their Guardsquare platform helping healthcare organisations secure mobile apps across the full lifecycle.
Most promising pilot
Sam Neville, chief nursing informatics officer at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust and regional CNIO for NHS England (Eastern), joined us to announce the winner and runner-up in this category.
Winner: NHS England & Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust: AI-assisted discharge summarisation (AADS): From partnership pilot to national transformation
Congratulations to NHS England & Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust on their winning entry!
By combining NHS England’s national AI capability and infrastructure with frontline clinical expertise at Chelsea and Westminster, AADS has been developed as a real-world solution to one of the NHS’s most persistent operational challenges: delays in patient discharge caused by time-intensive documentation. It uses large language models, deployed securely via the NHS Federated Data Platform, to automatically generate structured first drafts of discharge summaries by extracting key information such as diagnoses, treatments, and test results. By reducing the time required to produce discharge summaries, the solution enables faster discharge, improved patient flow and bed utilisation, more timely communication with GPs and community services, and safer and more consistent transitions of care.
We’d also like to congratulate our highly commended entry from X-on Health: Delivering equitable patient access through omni-channel workflow automation.
Well done to everyone involved and a huge thank you for 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!
