Two of the NHS’s foremost trust chief executives lead the 50-strong judging panel in this year’s HSJ Partnership Awards.

The Partnership Awards, now in its fifth year, seek to celebrate innovative and important work carried out by the NHS together with suppliers of goods and services.

Entries are being invited in 21 categories – ranging from “Best Acute Sector Partnership” to “Workforce and Wellbeing Initiative of the Year”. Entries must be submitted by Friday 23 September.

They will be assessed by high profile judging panel of senior NHS figures. These include Matthew Hopkins and Fiona Noden, chief executives of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust and Bolton Foundation Trust respectively.

Other notable judges include the director of the Experience, Participation and Equalities Group at NHS England Neil Churchill, chief technology officer at NHS London Gary McAllister, chair of Dudley Integrated Health and Care Trust Harry Turner, and professor of Medical Education and Psychosocial Medicine at the University of Manchester Medical School Dr Robina Shah.

Among last year’s winners were AstraZeneca, Genmed and Medefer.