Medipex NHS Innovation Awards 2025 – Finalists Announcement

For 2025, entries were invited from NHS-led teams from all over the UK, across four categories. Our panel of internal and external judges selected three finalists from each category, which will be showcased at the awards event before announcing the winners of each category. The range and quality of innovations entered for the awards was inspirational again this year and it is anticipated that many new collaborations, and opportunities for shared learning, will occur as a result of the event. Congratulations to all of the finalists and thank you to all of our entrants for taking part.

We would like to give special thanks to the judging panel, made up of experts from Medipex Ltd.,  Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber, NIHR HRC in Paediatrics and Child Health, NIHR HRC in Long Term Conditions (D4D), York St John University, Jackdaw Four Ltd and M.A.R.S (Market Access and Reimbursement Solutions) Ltd, who had a very challenging time in selecting the finalists from a pool of high-quality entries from 25 different organisations and their collaborators.

Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve patient services and/or safety –

  • Joshi George – Manchester Centre for Clinical Neurosciences – CESCNNA: Cauda Equina Syndrome detection using Convolutional Neural Networks
  • Bharadhwaj Ravindhran – Hull University Teaching Hospitals – Tailored risk assessment and forecasting in intermittent claudication
  • Dr Martin Lees – St Bartholomew’s Hospital – Digital Patient Alert Pathway (DPAP)

 

Improved treatments, therapies and rehabilitation

  • Anne-Marie Cole – South Tyneside and Sunderland Foundation Trust – Breathing New Life Into Care: A Symptom based Personalised Health Model
  • Paul Bentley – Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust – Advancing Neurorehabilitation: Wearable Band for Functional Recovery Post Brain Injury
  • Rory O’Connor – Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust – Augmented Reality Rehabilitation for Parkinson’s Disease

 

Delivering benefits through diagnosis and screening

  • Katie Moss – Northern Care Alliance (hosted network) – Community-Based Point of Care Testing Evaluation for Respiratory Infections: Tailored Implementation
  • Nicky Hollowood – Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust – Electronically Connected LFTs for Winter Viruses; Bed Management and Infection Control Tool
  • Jenny Piper -York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – Breath Volatile Flux Analysis: Non -invasive Breast Cancer Screening Test

 

Process and Systems Innovations

  • Dr Su Ann Tee – Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust – Once is Enough: Transforming cardiovascular disease secondary prevention via innovative multi-speciality working
  • Dr Lynn Riddell – Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust – Sustainable pathway change for HIV monitoring – Moving away from traditional guidelines to annual review.
  • Sallie Ward – Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board – Ask A Midwife

 

Medipex CEO Lindsay Georgopoulos says, ‘We look forward to the Awards event on the 25th of June 2025, showcasing our finalists, announcing the winners, and celebrating innovations in the NHS.’

We look forward to seeing you at the Awards event.

For our programme of event and registration, please go to: www.medipexawards.co.uk/awards-event/.

To follow our event, our event hashtag is #MedipexAward2025