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#UHUK2025: Reflections from our Chair: People, Purpose, Power Shift, Pounds and Play to Win Following another successful UHUK Conference — and a lively discussion that included Minister Smyth joining us remotely — our Chair Nigel Gazzard shares his reflections on this year’s event. In this short interview, Nigel answers three key questions: 💬 How did this year’s conference go? 💬 What were the big takeaways? 💬 What did members learn from your session with Minister Smyth? His reflections highlight five powerful themes for the year ahead: People, Purpose, Power Shift, Pounds and Play to Win — a call for all of us to build on momentum and keep driving integrated, neighbourhood-based care forward. ▶️ Watch the full interview below. #UHUK #UrgentCare #IntegratedCare #Leadership #NHS #PrimaryCare

Last night we celebrated excellence across our membership and this morning we have shared all the winners for each of our award categories. The national UHUK Awards 2025 brought together incredible examples of innovation, compassion, and community-focused care from across our social enterprise members. Each award represents a story of dedication — teams working tirelessly to deliver outstanding services, support their communities, and drive positive change across urgent and integrated care. We’re immensely proud to represent such passionate organisations, whose values, creativity, and commitment to patients make a real difference every single day. 💙 Congratulations once again to all of our winners and finalists — you truly embody what makes the UHUK network so special. Thanks also to all our affiliates, sponsors and partners, without whom the UHUK Annual Conference would not be possible. #UrgentHealthUK #UHUKAwards #UHUKConference2025 #HealthcareExcellence #Collaboration #SocialEnterprise #Innovation #NeighbourhoodHealth #NHS

Our final award this year is the award for Outstanding Engagement and Involvement, sponsored by AppLocum. It celebrates initiatives that have gone above and beyond in patient and public involvement, showing how meaningful engagement has shaped and improved care. 🏅 Gold: #PELC - Partnership of East London Co-operatives 🥈 Silver: Primary Care 24 Well done to the teams involved, ensuring patients are kept at the heart of urgent and integrated care. #UHUKConference #PatientEngagement #PPIE #UHUKAwards #PrimaryCare

Our sixth award is our Partnership - Stronger Together Award – Sponsored by Credentially This category celebrates a partnership between a UHUK member and another organisation that has delivered measurable benefits to service delivery, joined-up systems, and improved patient care. Entrants demonstrated leadership and collaboration, clear aims and objectives, and evidence of real outcomes. 🏅 Gold: North Hampshire Urgent Care 🥈 Silver: Primary Care 24 🥉 Bronze: Local Care Direct Congratulations to our winners, who have exemplified what it means to be stronger together through collaboration and innovation. #UHUKConference #UHUKAwards #Partnership #Collaboration #IntegratedCare #Credentially #UrgentCare

Next up is our Health Inequalities category - Equity in Healthcare Award, sponsored by Hempsons. It recognises an innovative project or programme that identified inequity in access or care for a specific patient group and demonstrated measurable improvement in outcomes. 🏅 Gold: Primary Care 24 🥈 Silver: Cumbria Health 🥉 #PELC - Partnership of East London Co-operatives. Congratulations to everyone involved in these winning initiatives that are clearly making a difference in their local communities. #UHUK2025 #HealthInequalities #Equity #UHUKAwards #PrimaryCare

Our penultimate award this year is our social impact category - the Making a Difference Award sponsored by Babble. This award honours an initiative that demonstrates a deep commitment to social impact and tangible benefits for communities, with evidence of outcomes achieved. 🏅 Gold: FCMS (NW) Ltd 🥈 Silver: Primary Care 24 Well done to our worthy winners who demonstrate what is possible through social enterprise and being rooted in the local community. #UHUKConference #SocialImpact #CommunityCare #UHUKAwards

Our next award is the Excellence in Operational Safety Award, sponsored by C-STEM. It recognises operational improvements in safety and quality systems, driven by evidence and measurable outcomes in reducing risk. 🏅 Gold: #PELC (Partnership of East London Co-operatives 🥈 Silver: LCW: Leading the future of unscheduled care Massive congratulations to our winners. #UHUKConference #QualityImprovement #PatientSafety #UHUKAwards

Our next category is Workforce - People First Award – sponsored by Hallam Medical. This award recognises a partnership, team or individual who has implemented an innovative project to support workforce development — whether through culture, leadership, recruitment, training, development, retention, or staff wellbeing. Entries needed to demonstrate innovation with clear, measurable outcomes and a positive impact on people. Our winners are: ✨ Gold: Mastercall Healthcare 🥈 Silver: #PELC - Partnership of East London Cooperatives 🥉 Bronze: LCW: Leading the future of unscheduled care Huge congratulations to all three — each has shown outstanding commitment to putting people first and strengthening the health and care workforce. #UHUKConference #UHUKAwards #WorkforceDevelopment #PeopleFirst #Innovation #UrgentCare #PrimaryCare #Hallam