HSJ Digital Awards 2025: Winners revealed

Hosted by comedian Ed Byrne, the event welcomed more than 900 attendees, including 208 shortlisted finalists competing across 25 categories. Judged by a panel of 112 experts, the awards recognised excellence in digital innovation, patient safety, and improved outcomes.

Top honours included Digital ICS of the Year, Improving Urgent and Emergency Care Through Digital, and Driving Change Through Data and Analytics. Each category highlighted impactful projects delivering tangible improvements to patient care and system performance.

The event spotlighted organisations and teams that have harnessed technology to address some of the sector’s most complex challenges. With more than 400 entries submitted, the evening served as a powerful reminder of the pace and promise of digital change across health and care.

In his opening speech, HSJ editor Alastair McLellan said: “This is the third edition of the HSJ Digital Awards – and the most fiercely contested yet. It is also the largest, with 25 individual categories – underlining the breadth of technological change under way in the NHS, despite all the constraints it faces on that front.

“We have introduced two categories: one focused on productivity and the other on prevention. Those subjects may appear very different – but they are actually the two sides of the same coin which the NHS will need to spend to survive in the absence of any meaningful real-terms funding growth from government.”