WINNER

Pioneering Care Partnership & County Durham Darlington FT

The Health Squad

The Health Squad provides outreach assessment and health navigation support to groups experiencing health inequalities, including people who are homeless, leaving prison, migrants, Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities, veterans and others, as identified by the integrated care board. 

The team works with commissioners, partner organisations, local authorities, community venues, and strategic groups to identify and tackle emerging health inequalities. It delivers frontline support in community settings to help people engage with and access healthcare services. This includes health assessments delivered to clinical standards in community settings, and a four-tier system that assesses individual needs and identifies appropriate care pathways for each person.

Highly commended

MSD UK & Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance: LungAware: Digital Patient Awareness Across Greater Manchester

Finalists

CardMedic & Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust: Epsom and St Helier Reduces Avoidable Readmissions in Maternity Services With CardMedic

Medstrom & Nottinghamshire Healthcare FT: Improving Care for Patients with Physical and Mental Health Challenges in Secure Environments Using An Appropriate Equipment

NEC Software Solutions & NHSE North West Public Health Commissioning Team; Knowsley Primary Care Network: Central Mersey Diabetic Eye Screening Programme

Practice Plus Group, HMIP, & Katherine House Hospice: Dignity Behind Bars: Transforming End-of-Life Care to Tackle Health Inequalities in Prisons

SiSU Health UK & Beacon House Ministries: Empowering Essex’s Homeless Community Through Digital Preventive Care

SPRYT, Islington GP Federation, NCL Cancer Alliance, and NCL ICB: Asa – Improving Screening Uptake and Patient Experience Across North Central London

University Hospitals of Leicester Trust, Becton Dickinson (BD), and NHS Supply Chain: Quality Improvement Project to Address Gender-Based Health Inequalities and Improve Patient Safety

Topics

Revealed: Winners of the 2026 HSJ Partnership Awards

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More than 1,200 healthcare leaders gathered in London last night as HSJ hosted its HSJ Partnership Awards and Independent Healthcare Providers Awards, celebrating organisations working with the NHS to deliver innovation and improved care.