Ann Shuttleworth Rising Star Award

• Rakshita Chauhan - St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Steph Craig - Queen's University Belfast
• Jenny Gilchrist - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
• Zoe Hunt - Royal Centre of Defence Medicine
• Tarcia Joseph - City and Hackney Integrated Primary Care
• Keannu M. Arnoco - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
• Emily Shuttleworth - Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
• Nikola Szymanska - HC-One
• Tim Walsh - West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
• Paul Wharton - Practice Plus Group
  

Midwife of the Year

• Sara Balmforth - Forget Me Not Children's Hospice
• Jaye Fish - NHS Humber Health Partnership
• Sabrina Fogg - Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust
• Siobhan Jarzabek - Mid and South Essex Foundation Trust
• Emily Kent - Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Daniela Petrova - Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
• Hayley Seale - HCA Healthcare

Nurse Leader of the Year

• Nasra Ali Ahmed - HCA Healthcare
• Michael Joel Apas - Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
• Sherwin Criseno - University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
• Tracie Lewin-Taylor - Shooting Star Children's Hospices
• Norman Lobino Jr. - St John and St Elizabeth Hospital
• Nilam Patel - Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
• Prajeesh Pulikkal Poulose - Care UK
• Caterina Speight - Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
• Orsolya Beáta Szász - Maria Mallaband Care Group
• Lynette Walker - HCA Healthcare
• Rebecca Worswick - Bolton Pulmonary Fibrosis Support Group

Nurse of the Year

• Rebecca Bennett - Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
• Leanna Brace - Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
• Sherwin Criseno - University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
• Nicola Dunlop - Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• Liz Forster - Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
• Sian Francis - Swansea Bay University Health Board
• Laura Govender - Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
• Susie Lagrata - University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Nicole Lee - London and South East Burns Network
• Tracie Lewin-Taylor - Shooting Star Children's Hospices
• Joan Pons Laplana - NHS England
• Martha Williams - Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Care of Older People

• Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Delivering harm free care in the discharge ready unit
• DHU Healthcare - Community Virtual Ward
• Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - The impact of proactive care on independent living residents
• Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust - Quality improvement of the Memory Assessment service
• Locala Health and Wellbeing - Falls assessment and response tool
• NeuroResponse - Personalised UTI digital care pathway
• Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust - Reducing falls in older persons inpatient wards
• Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust - Improving sleep to reduce falls and length of stay on a frailty ward
• South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust - Introduction of pathways in older people community mental health team
• University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust - Promoting mobility through person-centred continence care

Children’s Services

• Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board - Positive Directions: Trauma informed vanguard project
• Croydon Health Services NHS Trust - Tulip: Paediatric neurodisability nursing service
• Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust - Implementing the Kaiser Permanente early-onset sepsis risk calculator
• Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust - Improving patient safety and experience in prolonged jaundice
• HCA Healthcare - Paediatric urology Bladder and Bowel Service
• Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust - Core Needs
• Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust - Delivering compassionate care to the deceased child or young person
• National Neonatal Surgical Interest Group - Education and best practice standards for neonatal nurses nationally
• Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust - Children's hospital at home service
• South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Catching our Breath: Making national recommendations breathe for safer children’s respiratory care
• Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust - High risk nasogastric tube feeding with pH greater than 5.5 in the community

Clinical Research Nursing

• Barts Health NHS Trust - Project Octi
• Cambridge University Hospital Foundation Trust - Clinical research internship programme
• Clifton Medical Centre - High-capacity primary care research hub
• Hartlepool and Stockton Health GP Federation - Embedding clinical research in primary care through nurse leadership
• Homerton Healthcare Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Parkinson's disease amongst the Afro Caribbean community
• Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - Neurosurgery, emergency and trauma team
• Institute of Health Visiting - Embedding clinical research leadership in health visiting
• James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - The Circus Project
• Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust - M-RIC Youth Voices
• National Institute for Health and Social Care Research and University Hospitals of Liverpool Group - From tea trolleys to international reach: the Liverpool Model – a nurse-led, co-produced research workforce pathway
• University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust - Research Links programme

Continence Promotion and Care

• Aneurin Bevan University Health Board - Supporting continence and preventing deconditioning in hospital settings
• DL Health - Core to Floor: Pelvic health programme
• HCA Healthcare - How to Train My Bladder
• King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - From Retention to Recovery: A nurse-led continence pathway transforming post-operative spinal care
• Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust and Centre for Sustainable Healthcare - Trial Without Catheter: A structured approach
• Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Bladder and Bowel: Washable incontinence products
• NHS Orkney - Creating a continence service for children and young people
• University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust - Promoting dignity through person centered greener continence care for older people

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Critical and Emergency Care Nursing

• Aneurin Bevan University Health Board - Together in Practice: Building a learning culture in the emergency department
• Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Beyond goodbye
• Barts Health NHS Trust - Flourishing in emergency medicine – an integrated model for resident wellbeing and clinical excellence
• Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Quality improvement project to improve bereavement services in critical care
• Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust - We're Going to the Zoo
• East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust - The Eco Bed-Space
• HCA Healthcare - Implementing the CARREE framework to reduce medical device-related pressure ulcers
• Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - Pre-ventriculitis nursing care bundle introduction
• Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - The Mental Health Link Team
• Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - Intensive care unit virtual tour

Dame Elizabeth Anionwu Award for Inclusivity in Nursing and Midwifery

• Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust - Inclusive leadership behaviour programme
• Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust - Embedding inclusion and equity to improve access, engagement and outcomes for children and families
• Hartlepool and Stockton Health - Primary care outreach team
• Homerton Healthcare Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Parkinson's disease amongst the Afro Caribbean community
• Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust - Core Needs
• Institute of Health Visiting - Invisible No More: Leading change in inclusive perinatal mental health care
• James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - The Circus Project
• King's College London and Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust  - Comedy, samosas and nursing
• Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group - Career progression in black and minority ethnic nurses using targeted initiatives
• Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust - A multilingual approach to antenatal vaccination
• NHS England - Choices College
• Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - Integrated diabetes and advanced chronic kidney disease clinical and research programme

Infection Prevention and Control

• HCA Healthcare - Safer lines, stronger care – reducing catheter‑related bloodstream infections for parenteral nutrition patients
• NHS Humber Health Partnership - Beyond the Bedspace: Response to a complex carbapenemase-producing enterobacterales outbreak
• GAMA Healthcare- Reaching the unreachable – transforming infection prevention education through micro-learning
• Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Transforming infection prevention to reduce clostridioides difficile infections
• King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Reducing healthcare-associated infections through implementation of a water-free patient washing protocol in critical care
• Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust - Improvements to reduce the number of invasive group A streptococcal infections in the community
• Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust - Improving oral health
• Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Enhancing cleaning standards to reduce clostridioides difficile cases
• South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust - A-Z app
• St John and St Elizabeth Hospital - Sepsis Ambassador Quality Improvement Project
• The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust - Swarm
• Velindre University NHS Trust - Escape Room: Surviving the zombie blood virus

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Ingrid Fuchs Cancer Nursing Award

• Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust - Breast cancer supported self-management pathway
• Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust - Children’s books
• Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Humanising data - a nurse-led transformation of acute oncology data
• Macmillan Cancer Support - The Cancer Professionals Podcast
• Somerset NHS Foundation Trust - Cancer self-referrals
• South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust - Nothing About Us Without Us: Co-producing a new model of care for people living with cancer
• Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust - Acute oncology service – low suspicion metastatic spinal cord compression pathway
• The Christie NHS Foundation Trust - Reducing drain dwell times in malignant pleural effusion through an enhanced practice nurse role
• The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust - Optimising care and experience of patients diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer
• The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust - At Home, Not in Hospital: An ACP-led virtual ward transforming acute oncology care
• United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - Sleep in Cancer
• University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust - Faster diagnosis standard lung quality improvement – putting patients first

Learning Disabilities Nursing

• Achieve Together - Embedding coproduction at the heart of adult social care
• Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board - Psychological therapies and wellbeing team
• Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board - Safe Transitions: A specialist learning disability nurse pathway for young men with learning disabilities
• Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust - Nurse-led community engagement to reduce health inequalities
• Egalité Care - Equal lives – a nurse-led model transforming care for adults with learning disabilities
• Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Wessex Cancer Alliance - Cervical screening for peoplewith learning disabilities – learning resources
• Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust - My Care Pack
• North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust - Building the registered nurse for learning disabilities workforce – T-level student placement initiative
• North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust - Supporting families who manage risky behaviours at home
• Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust - Evaluating the “Let’s Talk Boobs” education workshops
• Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust - Transformation of the adult learning disabilities services

Nursing in Mental Health

• Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust - Communicating safely – post incident debrief, providing a voice for distress
• Bay Medical Group - Primary mental health team
• Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust - Efficient perinatal mental health – a nurse prescriber model
• Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - Turning risk into visible action – patient safety improvement in nurse-led clinics in adult community mental health services
• Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust - Core Needs
• Institute of Health Visiting - Invisible: Transforming paternal mental health through nurse-led innovation
• Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust - Start-aFresh cognitive behavioural therapy
• Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust - Introduction of nurse-led clinics in the community
• South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust - Detecting kidney disease in severe mental illness – a point-of-care creatinine pilot
• South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust - From Observation to Intervention: Transformation of enhanced care in mental health
• Suffolk GP Federation - ADHD monitoring and prescribing service
• Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust - Improving access to ADHD treatment to reduce comorbid mental health needs

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Nursing in Primary Care

• Bay Medical Group - Primary mental health team
• Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust - Testing without barriers – non-invasive STI screening
• City and Hackney Integrated Primary Care - Improving childhood immunisation uptake through community clinics
• City and Hackney Integrated Primary Care - Primary care transformation project management office programme
• Court Street Medical Practice - Step up to step down the carbon footprint
• Edge Hill University and Cheshire and Merseyside Training Hub  - Transforming primary care education through co-production, inclusion and student-led innovation
• Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust - Assessing lower-limb ulcer patients within 2 weeks
• Gender Plus - Registered independent gender hormone clinic for those 16 years and over
• Moreton & Meols and Wallasey Wellbeing Primary Care Network - Diabetes integrated assessment and support team model
• Old Fire Station Surgery and Wessex Cancer Aliance - Cervical screening for people with learning disabilities – learning resources for sample takers
• Staffordshire Training Hub - General practice nurse foundation school
• University of Bedfordshire - Integrating primary care experience into simulated practice learning for pre-registration nurses

Nursing in Social Care

• Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board - Positive Directions: Trauma informed vanguard project
• Gold Care Homes - Project care home aspiring registered manager
• Gorsey Clough Nursing Home - SWAN model of care for end of life and bereavement
• Lewisham Council and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust - Patient safe discharges
• NeuroResponse - Personalised UTI digital care pathway
• St Martins Care - Development of social care nursing career pathway

Nursing in the Community

• Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust - Single point of access – frailty hospital at home
• DHU Healthcare - Northamptonshire palliative and end of life care
• Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust - Reducing moderate harm pressure ulcers
• Hartlepool and Stockton Health - Primary care outreach team
• Institute of Health Visiting - Community nursing innovation in perinatal and family mental health
• IQVIA - Multiple sclerosis patient support program
• North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust - AI digital wound care in district nursing
• Sirona Care and Health - Reducing health inequalities in community stroke prevention
• St Giles Hospice - RUN-PC triage tool
• Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust - High risk nasogastric tube feeding with pH greater than 5.5 in the community
• West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board - Community nursing student-supported service placement

Patient Safety Improvement

• Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust - Outbreak response to prevention – transforming infection prevention and control
• Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Innovating patient monitoring to enhance recognition and response to acute deterioration
• Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust - HomeBridge pathway
• Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust - From 600 to zero, no child left waiting – a nurse-led transformation of access, safety and care
• Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust - Improving patient safety through a trust-wide safeguarding duty hub
• Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Enhanced observation – quality and safety review
• Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust - High risk nasogastric tube feeding with pH greater than 5.5 in the community
• Swansea Bay University Health Board - Limb reconstruction and bone infection
• The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust - The epilepsy service – reducing waiting times and prioritising patient safety
• University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Basic and advanced male urinary catheterisation
• University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust - Safeguarding IBD patients: A digital-first triage model for rapid clinical intervention
• University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust - Oranges and Lemons

Public Health Nursing

• Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust - The specialist community public health nursing workforce
• Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust - Health visitor led smoking cessation service
• Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust - Perinatal vaccination service
• Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust - Embedding inclusion and equity to improve access, engagement and outcomes for children and families
• HCRG Care Group - Early Intervention Sleep Campaign
• Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust - Special educational needs and disabilities workstream and improvements
• Institute of Health Visiting - Bringing fathers’ mental health into focus
• Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - Between the Navel and the Knees: Intimacy and sexual function after pelvic chemoradiotherapy
• North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust - Be Wise, Immunise
• Practice Plus Group - Closing a critical gap – improving sexual health screening in prisons
• UK Health Security Agency - Student nurse pilot project
• West London NHS Trust - Improving access to health care through universal digital health forms

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Sustainability in Nursing and Midwifery

• East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust - The Eco Bed-Space
• King's College London - Clinical Skills Sustainability project
• Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Washable incontinence products
• Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Washables and Sustainability Project
• Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Centre for Sustainable Healthcare - The Green Nursing Challenge: Combined multi-disciplinary pregnancy and inflammatory bowel disease clinic
• Nuffield Health - Safe, sustainable theatre ventilation
• Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and Centre for Sustainable Healthcare - The Green Nursing Challenge: Comprehensive insulin reviews and the use of continuous blood glucose monitoring
• Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust - Addressing unnecessary linen use
• South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust - Shared wound care – delivering sustainable, low‑carbon wound management
• The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust - Bathroom First: Preventing deconditioning and protecting our planet
• University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust - Promoting person centred care with dignity focused on greener nursing

Team of the Year

• Barts Health NHS Trust  - Lost to Follow Up project
• Barts Health NHS Trust - Adult critical care transfer service
• Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust - New team, real results – transforming outbreak prevention
• Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust - We're Going to the Zoo
• Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board - Integrated autism service
• Filipinos in Care - Project CHARM
• Institute of Health Visiting - Making fathers visible
• Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust - Quality improvement team
• Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - Maternity triage – Birmingham symptom-specific obstetric triage system
• South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust - Toward Zero Suicide
• South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Day 1 discharge programme following thoracic surgery
• Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust - Embedding Martha’s rule patient wellness questions through collaborative working

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Technology and Data in Nursing

• Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Innovating patient monitoring to enhance recognition and response to acute deterioration
• Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Learning disability dashboard
• East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust - Finding signals among noise
• Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance - Revolutionising communication skills training for nurses
• Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - CalciTrack
• Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Digitally augmented enhanced recovery after surgery pathway
• NHS England (South East) - A knitting pattern for nursing placements – using data to optimise practice learning opportunities
• North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust - Introduction of red flags and professional judgment in district nursing
• Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust - The Comfort Tracker
• University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust - Data-Driven Triage: Leveraging technology to revolutionise the inflammatory bowel disease advice line

The King's Award for Integrated Approaches to Care

• Barts Health NHS Trust - Shared responsibility, reduced visits – targeting paediatric emergency department frequent attendances
• Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust - Proactive care Team
• Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust - Lipid Optimisation programme
• City and Hackney Integrated Primary Care - Integrated community clinics to improve childhood immunisation uptake
• City St George's, University of London - Pregnancy and Parenting Circles: Transforming pregnancy and postnatal care through cross sector collaboration
• East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust - Carer experience service
• King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Helping hands sensory blood test clinic
• Moreton & Meols and Wallasey Wellbeing Primary Care Network - Diabetes integrated assessment and support team model
• Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - Integrated diabetes and advanced chronic kidney disease clinical and research programme
• University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Multiple sclerosis family planning and pregnancy cliniC

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Theatre and Surgical Nursing

• Aneurin Bevan University Health Board - Peyton's Principles - enhancing ERCP competency in the endoscopy nursing workforce
• Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust - High-volume Super Weeks
• Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust - High risk airway clinic
• King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Enhanced recovery after surgery for neurosurgery
• Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Distance Dots
• National Neonatal Surgical Interest Group - Education and best practice standards for neonatal nurses nationally
• Newmedica - Reducing avoidable cancellations in cataract surgery
• South East London Acute Provider Collaborative - Pre-operative assessment nursing forum