Winners of the NHS Wales Awards 2023 announced!

We’re excited to announce the winners of this year’s NHS Wales Awards, celebrating improvement work that has transformed the experience and outcomes for people in Wales.

This year we were thrilled to receive a record-breaking number of submissions detailing the incredible improvement work happening across our health and care system. After much deliberation, twenty four projects were selected as finalists and our winners were announced at an online ceremony earlier today.

Our Winners:

This marks the fifteenth year of the awards, hosted by Improvement Cymru. John Boulton, National Director of NHS Quality Improvement and Patient Safety/Director Improvement Cymru said: “The awards are a great opportunity to spread and scale fantastic work across Wales and beyond. We’re blessed with such a passionate and skilled workforce, and I’m inspired by you all. Thank you for what you do and how you do it. This is an excellent achievement of which you should be proud”.

Judith Paget Director General for Health and Social Services and the NHS Wales Chief Executive, said: “It fills me with great pride to celebrate the NHS Wales Awards and hear from so many dedicated teams with truly innovative projects.

“I want to thank all of our inspirational finalists and offer my heartfelt congratulations to the winners. We value your outstanding improvement work more than ever, at a time where hard decisions are having to be made in order to prioritise patient care.

“It’s important to take the time to showcase what you have been working so hard on so that we can celebrate your achievements and also learn from each other. I look forward to seeing how your work develops so that we can help to transform health and care even further”.

A special thanks to our sponsors SimplyDo and Health and Care Research Wales for their support which has allowed us to continue with our virtual celebration.