With 28 separate categories, the winners were announced during an impressive ceremony held at Evolution London, on Thursday 21 March. The event was attended by representatives from the NHS, and both the private and third sector as well as key players from non-clinical backgrounds, all coming together to celebrate the importance of positive partnerships and acknowledging how these underpin the future sustainability of the NHS.
Nine new categories were introduced for 2024, with partnership and collaboration at the core of every class. Overall, the HSJ Partnership Awards – which is now in its 7th year – celebrated the achievements of a total of 188 finalists!
Jamie Butel, Managing Director at Xylem Partners commented, “We’re just so thrilled to have been shortlisted as a finalist, let alone win! It really endorses all our efforts that went into planning and implementing this successful project which tackled the growing challenges relating to primary care access for all. It also showcases our continued commitment to partnership working and our mission to help our clients achieve their improvement ambitions so that they can focus on providing the best possible service to their customers and the communities they serve. We’d also like to extend our thanks to our NHS partners at Black Country ICB and all those who played an important role in this project – and we look forward to building on this success.”
Angela Poulton, Associate Director of Primary Care at the ICB commented about the project: “Its critical importance lies in the NHS drive to improve access to primary care. This leading-edge intelligence tool is equipping our system to understand our current workforce, develop our strategy, produce our workforce plans and drive action to ensure we have a pipeline of staff, competent to deliver services and ensure the future health and wellbeing of the people of the Black Country.”
HSJ editor Alastair McLellan comments: “HSJ created the Partnership Awards in 2018 to celebrate and recognise the vital contribution made by the suppliers of goods and services to the quality and development of British healthcare.”
“This year’s awards demonstrate there is almost no NHS clinical or support service which does not rely – sometimes almost completely – on the efforts of external suppliers.”
“Almost any attempt to improve NHS productivity – the service’s greatest challenge – without working in concert with suppliers starts at a major disadvantage. Indeed, many of the best ideas for improving productivity do and will come from suppliers. Every one of the businesses on the Partnership Awards shortlist has shown the kind of thinking and determination it takes to deliver change in healthcare services. They should all be very proud of the efforts, our 28 winners especially so.”
The winners were selected following a rigorous two-stage judging process ahead of the HSJ Partnership Awards 2024 awards ceremony. The full list of Winners and those Highly Commended for the 2024 HSJ Partnership Awards can be found at https://partnership.hsj.co.uk/winners-2024.