HCP shortlist
The Healthcare Professionals shortlisted this year embody the dedication and excellence at the heart of primary care. Each individual and team has gone above and beyond to improve the lives of their patients and communities, showing compassion, resilience and commitment in everything they do. Their remarkable achievements deserve recognition, and the shortlist highlights those making a lasting difference across general practice and primary care in the UK.
General Practitioner of the Year
Sponsored by
Dr. Kirsty Cole MBE
Skerryvore Practice
Kirkwall
Dr. Ishi Bains
Tower Hamlets GP care group
London
Dr Balraj Mavi
Kingswinford & Wordsley PCN
Kingswinford
Dr Ballal Seddique
Blithehale Medical Centre
London
Dr Lucie Donlan
West Gorton Medical Centre
Manchester
Dr Elango Vijaykumar
Modality East Surrey
East Surrey
Dr Helen Kingston
Frome Medical Practice
Frome
Dr Zoyah Hussain
Modality Holycroft Surgery
West Yorkshire
Dr Henry Chan
Fir Park Medical Centre Widnes & Widnes PCN
Widnes
Nurse/Nursing Team of the Year
Anna Parker
Rosmellyn Surgery
Penzance
Lucinda Longwill
The Aberfeldy Practice
London
Bosvena Health Nursing Team
Bodmin
Dr Jennifer Loke
Park View Surgery
East Riding of Yorkshire
Willows Health
Wound Care Nursing Team
Leicester
Mrs Nicky Trenaman
St Thomas Medical Group
Exeter
Newton and Haydock PCN Frailty Team
St Helen and Knowsley
Practice Manager of the Year
Sponsored by
Caitlin Clarke
Business Manager, Castle Partnership & Managing Partner, Fleggburgh Surgery
Norfolk & Great Yarmouth
Tracey Clarke
Practice Manager
Magdalen Medical Practice
Norwich
Mr Muhammad Ahmed
Group Business Manager
North Trafford Group Practice
Manchester
Nicola Rice
Senior Practice Lead NPC Ponteland
Northumberland
Mr Scott Ridley
Harefield Practice
Middlesex
Kate Mansi
Practice Manager, Wokingham Medical Centre and Modality Wokingham PCN
Wokingham
Digital Innovation Award
Modality Partnership and Heidi Health
Ambient Voice AI for Clinical Documentation
Nationwide
Sunil Gupta
Penrose Health
London
Thatcham Medical Practice
West Berkshire
The Primary Care Electronic Prescription Service Programme
Wales
St Wulfstan Surgery
Warwickshire
Chingford Medical Practice
Digital First Innovation Team
Essex
Dr Muhammed Ali
GP Pathfinder Clinics
London
Kumar Medical Centre
Berkshire
Sunderland Digital Front Door
Sunderland
Digital Cardiology Innovation Team
Community Palpitations Service
(Wakefield, led by Dr Murad Khan)
Leeds
Super Triage
Milton Keynes Urgent Care Services
(MKUCS)
Buckinghamshire
Future leader in general practice
Dr Amina Al-Yassin
Clinical Director for Children and Young People, Brent
London
Dr Adrian Harrop
Leading Inclusive Primary Care
for LGBTQ+ Communities
Liverpool
Dr Jess Harvey
GP and South East Shropshire Primary Care Network Director, STW GP Board Co-Chair and Future Leader in General Practice
Shropshire
Desiree Gillespie
Occupational Therapy Clinical Lead
Nottinghamshire
Dr Zoyah Hussain
Health Inequalities Champion GP
West Yorkshire
Sustainability in Practice
The Elms Medical Practice
Chester
Kineton and Tysoe Surgery
Warwick
Green Edgwick
Coventry
Advancing health equality
RRMC Sports Academy
Richmond Road Medical Centre
London
Little Lungs - Shaping Healthier Futures
West Birmingham Locality Hub
Birmingham
Dr Elizabeth Turner
Mereside Medical Group
Cambridgeshire
Shoreditch Park & City PCN
Community Navigation Team
London
Maternal Health Project
First 4 Health Group (Personalised Care Team)
London
Complete Care Community (CCC)
Health Inequality Programme
James Wigg Group Practice
London
One-stop respiratory clinic -
A preventative model of care
Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
West Midlands
Baby Wellbeing:
Tackling Immunisation Inequality in Keighley
Modality Partnership
Nationwide
PCN/Integrated Neighbourhood
Cervical Screening Project
Central, Thistlemoor and Thorpe
Peterborough
Transforming children’s care in a Core20+5 priority area
Dr Neel Trivedi, Brent K&W South PCN
London
General Practice Team of the Year
Sponsored by
Modality East Surrey Medical Practice Team - one Practice, One Purpose,
Excellence Through Integration
East Surrey
St Wulfstan Surgery:
Proactive Care Team
Warwickshire
The Lodge Health Partnership Frailty Team
Hertfordshire
The Unsworth Group Practice
Bolton
Willesden Green Surgery
London
Sunderland GP Alliance Digital Team
Sunderland
Stroud Green Medical
London
Hillbrow Health and Wellbeing
Eastbourne
Team of Davenport House Surgery
Hertfordshire
Kumar Medical Centre
Berkshire
Frome Medical Practice
Frome
PCN of the Year
Kentish Town South (KTS) PCN
London
Warwickshire East PCN
Integrated, Inclusive, and Innovative Care
Warwickshire
Healthy Horley PCN
Surrey
Central Basildon PCN “Improving Lives Together”
Essex
The Ridings Medical Group
River and Wolds Primary Care Network
East Riding of Yorkshire
Andover Primary Care Network Limited (“Andover PCN”)
Hampshire
WA8 Collaborate – Widnes PCN
Cheshire
North West Leicestershire PCN
Leicester
Kingswinford and Wordsley PCN
West Midlands
Earley+ PCN Reading
Berkshire
Pharmacist/Pharmacy Team of the Year
South Sefton PCN Medicines Management Team
Merseyside
Willows Health Pharmacy Team
Leicester
James Wigg Group
Practice Pharmacy Team
London
Penshurst Gardens Surgery
Edgware
Nazir Hussain
Specialist Respiratory Pharmacist
Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
West Midlands
PCN Clinical Pharmacy Team
Local Primary Care GP Federation
Blackburn with Darwen
Receptionist/Reception
Team of the Year
Sponsored by
Practice Administrative Team
The New Surgery
Folkestone
Central Medical Centre Reception Team
Peterborough
Maxine Paget
Reception Manager - Lodge Health Partnership
Hertfordshire
Local Primary Care Navigators and Reception Team
Blackburn with Darwen
Park Surgery
Herne Bay Reception Team
Kent
Queensbridge Group Practice Reception/Admin Team
London
Saxmundham Health
Care Navigation Team
Suffolk
Extended Practice Team Member of the Year
Karl Pearce
Social Prescriber, Four Acre Health Centre
Merseyside
Wardah Ahson
Senior Physician Associate and Clinical Operations Manager, St James Medical Practice
London
Lyndsay Steel
Lead General Practice Pharmacist
NHS Orkney
Primary Care Physio
London
Dr Isky Gordon
James Wigg Practice’s Patient Participation Group (PPG)
London
Carrieann Kirkup
Primary Care Physio, Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner and Clinical Lead FCP, Carlisle Rural PCN
Carlisle
Marie Brewis and Sultana Dalvi
Phoenix PCN Luton Social prescribing Team
Luton
Clinical Improvement -
Public Health & Prevention
Screening Spirometry for Early Detection of COPD in Primary Care
Swansea Bay UHB Primary Care Respiratory Improvement Team
Wales
GP Talks: Patient health topics in plain English
Lakeside Healthcare
Corby
Educate to Vaccinate: The 5Ms in Action
Woodgrange's 2024 Outreach Journey
Woodgrange Medical Practice
London
CKD Decision Aid
Dr Valeed Ghafoor, GP Partner at The Brooke Surgery
Manchester
Sefton Mobile Cervical Screening Partnership
Liverpool
Fit + Well with Dr B
Dr Ballal Seddique
Healthy Island Partnership
London
Guernsey familial Hypercholesterolaemia Screening Service
Guernsey
Improving Cervical Screening across Bromley using a targeted population health management approach to tackle variation in uptake
One Bromley
London
Orpington PCN Cancer Care Coordinators
South East London Cancer Alliance Project
London
Dr Kah Lee & Dr Jennifer Loke
Park View Surgery
East Riding of Yorkshire
Clinical Improvement -
Mental Health
Person-centred approach in improving mental wellbeing in the community
A partnership of general practice and the voluntary sector
Leigh Primary Care Network
Leigh
First Contact Practitioner (FCP) Mental Health Occupational Therapists (MHOT) in Primary Care
Primary Integrated Community Services Ltd (PICS)
Nottinghamshire
Quality and Performance Team (QPT)
James Wigg Group Practice (JWGP)
London
Dawn Johnstone
Boroughloch Medical Practice
Edinburgh
Mental Health Nursing Team and SHERPA, university of Bristol Students' Health Service
Bristol
Victoria Medical Centre Mental Health Service hub in Primary Care
London
Clinical Improvement -
Long Term Conditions
Reimaging Primary Care Delivery for Diabetes
Dr Sian-Lee Ewan
Ulster University
Ireland
A Cardio-Renal-Metabolic Quality Improvement Programme, Widnes
Cheshire
Living Well with Diabetes
Dr Ballal Seddique
Blithehale Medical Centre
London
Modality East Surrey – ProActive365
East Surrey
Housebound Nurse Service: Holistic Home-Based Care for People with Long-Term Conditions
South Ashfield Primary Care Network
Nottingham
Leigh PCN Chronic Pain Support Group
Leigh
Phoenix PCN Luton
Luton
James Wigg Group Practice CARE Programme
London
South East Shropshire PCN Dementia MDT
West Midlands
Renal Cardiometabolic Project Team – Lambeth
London
Willows Health Pharmacy Led Centre of CaReMe Excellence and CVD optimisation
Leicester
The Harefield Health Lung Project
Harefield Practice
Middlesex
Workforce wellbeing award
Sponsored by
Compass House Medical Centres
Devon
Dr Susie Bayley, Hub Plus Derbyshire
East Midlands
Somerset Careers Plus
Somerset
Women’s Wellbeing at Work, Dr Suneeta Kochhar & Dr Zoe Schaedel, Sussex ICB
Sussex
The Local Primary Care Federation Health & Wellbeing Team
Blackburn with Darwen
Richmond Road Medical Centre
London
Wellbeing is a Lifestyle at Modality East Surrey Medical Practice
Surrey
Modality Partnership: Supporting Staff Wellbeing through Holly Health
Nationwide
Midday Movers - Dr Janet Reeve, GP Partner, Rope Green Medical Centre
Crewe
Central, Thistlemoor and Thorpe PCN/Integrated Neighbourhood
Peterborough
Supplier shortlist
Our shortlisted suppliers represent the very best in support for primary care, providing products, services and solutions that help practices deliver outstanding care to patients and communities. Each nominee has demonstrated exceptional commitment, reliability and innovation in meeting the needs of healthcare professionals. These suppliers play a vital role in strengthening general practice, and their contributions are rightly recognised as part of this year’s prestigious awards.
The public vote for the suppliers is now open.
Click here to vote.
Digital solutions provider of the year
Hippo Labs
Ideoshift ltd
Develop Consulting
Enhanced Technology
Research Delivery Network (RDN)
Healthtech-1
X-on Health
Primary Care Warwickshire Ltd
NASGP
Instruxo Ltd
AI-Powered solutions provider
BetterLetter
Heidi Health
Pharmacy Solutions Provider
Core Prescribing Solutions
Virtual Pharmacist
Medicines Management Solutions
Vallour
The Medicines Management Team
Clinical Pharmacist Solutions
Legal services provider
MDDUS
Weightmans
DR Solicitors
Recruitment or staffing agency of the year
Menlo Park Recruitment
NASGP
Clinical Pharmacist Solutions
Telecoms provider of the year
Babblevoice
Think Healthcare
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