NHS Wales Sustainability Awards Shorlist 2025

ACTING AS ONE TEAM
- ANEURIN BEVAN UHB – Their Decarbonisation Programme
- CARDIFF & VALE UHB & HEIW – Training Student Nurses for a Sustainable General Practice Workforce in Cardiff and Vale
- CARDIFF & VALE UHB – Gloves Off Campaign
- CARDIFF & VALE UHB – The HIV Engagement (HIVE) Project
- CARDIFF & VALE UHB – Embedding sustainability across Wales’ sole Dental Hospital and School; A Narrative for Change
- CWN TAF MORGANNWG UHB & UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH WALES – Repurposing of out of date stock to provide high fidelity simulation training for students
- DIGITAL HEALTH & CARE WALES – Estates Rationalisation and Collaboration
- ESSITY – Value Based Health Care Continence Project
- HYWEL DDA UHB – Keeping people warm at home in winter
- HYWEL DDA – Let’s manage Continence
- NHS WALES SSP – Sustainable Procurement Team
- NHS EXECUTIVE – Community Health Pathways National Programme
- SWANSEA BAY UHB – Swansea Bay and Fresenius Medical Care delivering dialysis
CAPITAL PROJECT OF THE YEAR
- HOARE LEE – Glanrhyd Hospital PV Installation
- NHS WALES SSP – IP5 Solar PV
THE CNO SUSTAINABILITY IN NURSING AND MIDWIFERY AWARD
- CONSULTANT CONNECT LTD / HYWEL DDA UHB – Providing Perinatal Mental Health Advice to prevent unnecessary referrals
- CWN TAF MORGANNWG UHB – Bridging the Digital Divide: Addressing Digital Exclusion in Maternity Services
- ESSITY – Value Based Health Care Continence Project
- SWANSEA BAY UHB – Sexual Health Service Resilience and Adaptability
GREENER PRIMARY CARE
- GWAUN CAE GURWEN DENTAL PRACTICE – Reduction of clinical waste in primary care
- HEIW – Carbon Literacy within Healthcare: Optometry
- HYWEL DDA UHB – Nursing Teams passion in Respiratory care
- PEARCE & BLACKMORE OPTICIANS – Greener Primary Care
- PROBERT & WILLIAMS EYE CARE – Delivering Sustainable Eye Care
- SPECSAVERS – Greener Primary Care
- SURGASSISTS LTD – Surgassists Virtual Reality
IMPROVEMENT AND INNOVATION
- CARDIFF & VALE UHB – Gloves Off Campaign
- CARDIFF & VALE UHB – Annual Review in HIV Care
- CARDIFF & VALE UHB / BETSI CADWALADR UHB / CEDAR – The Foodwise in Pregnancy Smartphone Application – Development and Evaluation
- CWN TAF MORGANNWG UHB / NATURAL UK & SBRI – Value of Clinical Waste – Natural UK
- HEALTHPOINT Improving Patient knowledge and awareness through innovation
- HEALTH EDUCATION & IMPROVEMENT WALES – HEIW Foundation Pharmacist Programme
- HEALTH EDUCATION & IMPROVEMENT WALES – SusMat Quality Improvement Online Workbook
- NHS WALES SSP – Providing non patient transport services to Health Boards in NHS Wales
- OPCI LTD – Open predictor AI Driven Risk Stratification
- SBRI CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE – SBRI Gases Challenge – safe and Ethical Disposal of Nitrous Oxide and Entonox Medical Gases
- SPINDOGS – Delivering a Standardised GP web solution
- SWANSEA BAY UHB – Peripheral Plasma Exchange Service
- SWANSEA BAY UHB – Cardiac ITU
- WELSH BLOOD SERVICE – STOCK HOLDING UNIT – Project ELSA
- ZETTA GENOMICS – Changing the Future of Genomics
PREVENTION IN HEALTHCARE
- BETSI CADWALADR UHB – ‘My Life’ Project
- CARDIFF & VALE UHB – Community Smoking Cessation team
- CARDIFF & VALE HEALTH INCLUSION SERVICE – Making healthcare more accessible for people living in hostels
- CARDIFF & VALE UHB / EASTERN VALE CLUSTER – Health Lifestyle Event
- NORTH & SOUTH PEMBROKESHIRE CLUSTERS – Lessons in Asthma – improving the management of respiratory conditions in primary school children
PRODUCT OF THE YEAR
- FORBO FLOORING SYSTEMS – Marmoleum
- GREEN EARTH SUPPLIES LTD – EndoTherm Project
- GV HEALTH LTD – Decarbonising the NHS
- HOBART UK – Standard bearer in ware washing
- HYWEL DDA – Matterport – Virtually there!
- KEENAN RECYCLING – Net Zero in Action: The sustainable product driving their green mission
- OPTIMUM MEDICAL LTD – Ugo 4 Weeks: Sustainability in Every Prescription
- SCIENTIFIC LABORATORY SUPPLIES – Lower carbon, same first-class performance – the biobased lab plastics advantage for net zero
- SMITH+NEPHEW – Driving product recyclability for single-use medical devices
- SURGASSISTS LTD – Surgassists Virtual Reality
- VERNACARE – Safer, Bigger, Greener: the all new 5 & 7L Sharpsafe Containers
- VISUfarma – Pioneering Sustainability as a carbon Net Zero and Plastic Neutral Leader
- WELSH BLOOD SERVICE – STOCK HOLDING UNIT – Project ELSA
SERVICE OF THE YEAR
- CARDIFF & VALE UHB – Gloves Off Campaign
- CWN TAF MORGANNWG UHB – The Feedcycle Project: PP & HDPE single use plastic recycling and repurposing
- ENDOSCOPY / ANEURIN BEVAN UHB – Creating a sustainable, eco-conscious future in healthcare
- GV HEALTH LTD – Decarbonising the NHS
- HYWEL DDA UHB – Advancing Sustainable Gynaecological Care: Development of Enhanced Community-Based Diagnostic and Menopause Services in a Rural Setting
- KEENAN RECYCLING – Pioneering the circular economy
- MEDTRUM – Supporting sustainable healthcare
- NHS WALES SSP -SPECIALIST ESTATES SERVICE, IMAGING & DIAGNOSTICS TEAM – Operational Life extending imaging upgrades and the benefits of sustainability
- OPTIMUM MEDICAL LTD / VYNE – Delivering Sustainability: Vyne’s commitment to a Greener NHS
- PROBERT & WILLIAMS EYE CARE – Delivering sustainable healthcare
- SMITH+NEPHEW – Optimising our global transportation footprint
- SWANSEA BAY UHB – Cardiac ITU
- SWANSEA BAY UHB – Making Dietetic enteral feeding patient reviews more sustainable
- UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES – Optimising seasonal air conditioning settings for energy efficiency at UHB
- VELINDRE UNIVERSITY NHS TRUST – Paperless radiotherapy Pathway
- WELSH BLOOD SERVICE – STOCK HOLDING UNIT – Project ELSA
- WELSH BLOOD SERVICE – Hemochromatosis Project
SOCIAL VALUE / FOUNDATIONAL ECONOMY
- CAE FELIN CSA CIC – SWANSEA BAY UHB – Community Supported Agriculture (CIC)
- DYMA NI LIMITED – Offering engagement services across Wales
- NHS WALES SSP – Procurement Provisions – Meat & Poultry Social Value Approach and Outcome
- WELSH AMBULANCES SERVICES NHS TRUST – Non- Emergency Patient Transport Service
SPREAD AND SCALE
- CARDIFF & VALE UHB – Gloves Off Campaign
- CONSULTANT CONNECT LTD / SWANSEA BAY UHB – Enhancing patient care and aiding clinical conversations in Wales through the national Consultant Connect Lymphoedema Advice & Guidance service
- E-BREATHE LTD – N20 Clear
- HEALTHY – Wound Care
- OPCI LTD – OpenPredictor AI Driven Risk Stratification
- PUBLIC HEALTH WALES – Reducing single-use plastic and waste from our labs
- VELINDRE UNIVERSITY NHS TRUST – Care Closer to Home
THE SUSTAINABILITY CHAMPION WALES AWARD
- HEALTH EDUCATION AND IMPROVEMENT WALES – SusMat Quality Improvement Online Workbook
- SPECSAVERS HAVERFORDWEST – The Sustainability Champion Wales Award
- SWANSEA BAY UHB – Cardiac ITU
- SWANSEA BAY UHB – Annie Hill
SUSTAINABILITY NETWORK OR COMMUNITY
- The MILK BANK AT CHESTER in collaboration with The North Wales Neonatal Neonatal Network Donor Milk Hub
- DIGITAL HEALTH AND CARE WALES / NHS WALES FINANCE ACADEMY – Foundational Economy Learning and Development Programme
- NHS WALES SSP – Welsh Health Environment Forum
- NHS WALES LIBRARY SERVICE – The Environment Group
WELLBEING OF FUTURE GENERATIONS
- CWM TAF MORGANNWG UHB – Bridging the Digital Divide: Addressing Digital Exclusion in Maternity Services
- PUBLIC HEALTH WALES – Championing Nature for a Healthy Future – Public Health Wales’ Biodiversity Action Plan (2024-2027)
- THRIVING COMMUNITIES & ANEURIN BEVAN HEALTH BOARD – Mind & Body Wellness Programme
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