NHS Wales Sustainability Awards 2025

2025
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NHS Wales Sustainability Awards Shorlist 2025

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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  • CWN TAF MORGANNWG UHB & UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH WALES – Repurposing of out of date stock to provide high fidelity simulation training for students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 UHBProviding 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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