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

Dr. Kirsty Cole MBE

Dr. Ishi Bains

Dr Balraj Mavi

Dr Ballal Seddique

Dr Lucie Donlan

Dr Elango Vijaykumar

Dr Helen Kingston

Dr Zoyah Hussain

Dr Henry Chan

Nurse/Nursing Team of the Year

Anna Parker

Lucinda Longwill

Bosvena Health Nursing Team

Dr Jennifer Loke
Nurse Consultant (Park View Surgery, East Riding of Yorkshire)

Willows Health
Wound Care Nursing Team

Mrs Nicky Trenaman
Nurse Practitioner & Home Visiting Team Lead, St Thomas Medical Group

Newton and Haydock PCN Frailty Team

Practice Manager of the Year

Caitlin Clarke
Business Manager, Castle Partnership & Managing Partner, Fleggburgh Surgery

Tracey Clarke
Practice Manager
Magdalen Medical Practice

Mr Muhammad Ahmed
Group Business Manager
North Trafford Group Practice

Nicola Rice
Senior Practice Lead
NPC Ponteland

Mr Scott Ridley

Kate Mansi
Practice Manager, Wokingham Medical Centre and Modality Wokingham PCN

Digital Innovation Award

Modality Partnership and Heidi Health
Ambient Voice AI for Clinical Documentation

Sunil Gupta

Thatcham Medical Practice

The Primary Care Electronic Prescription Service Programme (Wales)

St Wulfstan Surgery

Chingford Medical Practice
Digital First Innovation Team

Dr Muhammed Ali

Kumar Medical Centre

Sunderland Digital Front Door

Digital Cardiology Innovation Team
Community Palpitations Service
(Wakefield, led by Dr Murad Khan)

Super Triage
Milton Keynes Urgent Care Services
(MKUCS)

Future leader in general practice

Dr Amina Al-Yassin
Clinical Director for Children and Young People, Brent

Dr Adrian Harrop
Leading Inclusive Primary Care
for LGBTQ+ Communities

Dr Jess Harvey
GP and South East Shropshire Primary Care Network Director, STW GP Board Co-Chair and Future Leader in General Practice

Desiree Gillespie
Occupational Therapy Clinical Lead

Dr Zoyah Hussain
Health Inequalities Champion GP

Sustainability in Practice

The Elms Medical Practice 

Kineton and Tysoe Surgery

Green Edgwick

Advancing health equality

Richmond Road Medical Centre

Little Lungs
Shaping Healthier Futures

Dr Elizabeth Turner

Shoreditch Park & City PCN
Community Navigation Team

Maternal Health Project
First 4 Health Group
(Personalised Care Team)

James Wigg Group Practice
Complete Care Community (CCC)
Health Inequality Programme

One-stop respiratory clinic
A preventative model of care

Baby Wellbeing:
Tackling Immunisation Inequality in Keighley

Central, Thistlemoor and Thorpe
PCN/Integrated Neighbourhood
Cervical Screening Project

Dr Neel Trivedi
Transforming the experience of children living in one of the highest Health Inequalities Core20+5 areas in the UK.

General Practice Team of the Year

Modality East Surrey Medical Practice Team
One Practice, One Purpose,
Excellence Through Integration

St Wulfstan Surgery:
Proactive Care Team

The Lodge Health Partnership Frailty Team

The Unsworth Group Practice

Willesden Green Surgery

Sunderland GP Alliance Digital Team

Stroud Green Medical

Hillbrow Health and Wellbeing

Team of Davenport House Surgery

Kumar Medical Centre

Frome Medical Practice

PCN of the Year

Kentish Town South (KTS) PCN

Warwickshire East PCN
Integrated, Inclusive, and Innovative Care

Healthy Horley PCN

Central Basildon PCN “Improving Lives Together”

The Ridings Medical Group
River and Wolds Primary Care Network, East Riding of Yorkshire

Andover Primary Care Network Limited (“Andover PCN”)

WA8 Collaborate – Widnes PCN

North West Leicestershire PCN

Kingswinford and Wordsley PCN

Earley+ PCN
Reading, Berkshire

Pharmacist/Pharmacy Team of the Year

South Sefton PCN Medicines Management Team

Willows Health Pharmacy Team

James Wigg Group
Practice Pharmacy Team 

Penshurst Gardens Surgery

Nazir Hussain
Specialist Respiratory Pharmacist

PCN Clinical Pharmacy Team
Local Primary Care GP Federation, Blackburn with Darwen

Receptionist/Reception Team of the Year

Practice Administrative Team
The New Surgery
Folkestone

Central Medical Centre Reception Team

Maxine Paget
Reception Manager
The Lodge Health Partnership

Local Primary Care Navigators and Reception Team

Park Surgery
Herne Bay Reception Team

Queensbridge Group Practice Reception/Admin Team

Saxmundham Health
Care Navigation Team

Extended Practice Team Member of the Year

Karl Pearce
Social Prescriber

Wardah Ahson
Senior Physician Associate and Clinical Operations Manager

Lyndsay Steel
Lead General Practice Pharmacist
NHS Orkney

Dr Isky Gordon
a patient of James Wigg Practice’s Patient Participation Group (PPG)

Carrieann Kirkup
Primary Care Physio Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner and Clinical Lead FCP, Carlisle Rural PCN

Marie Brewis and Sultana Dalvi
Phoenix PCN Luton Social prescribing Team

Clinical Improvement - 
Public Health & Prevention

Screening Spirometry for Early Detection of COPD in Primary Care
Swansea Bay UHB Primary Care Respiratory Improvement Team

GP Talks: Patient health topics in plain English

Educate to Vaccinate: The 5Ms in Action
Woodgrange's 2024 Outreach Journey

CKD Decision Aid
Dr Valeed Ghafoor, GP Partner at The Brooke Surgery

Sefton Mobile Cervical Screening Partnership

Fit + Well with Dr B
Dr Ballal Seddique
Healthy Island Partnership

Guernsey familial Hypercholesterolaemia Screening Service

One Bromley
Improving Cervical Screening across Bromley using a targeted population health management approach to tackle variation in uptake

Orpington PCN Cancer Care Coordinators
South East London Cancer Alliance Project

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

Nottinghamshire (PICS) FCP Mental Health Occupational Therapists
First Contact Practitioner (FCP) Mental Health Occupational Therapists (MHOT) in Primary Care – Primary Integrated Community Services Ltd (PICS), Nottinghamshire

James Wigg Group Practice (JWGP)
Quality and Performance Team (QPT)

Dawn Johnstone
Advanced Mental Health Pharmacist Practitioner

Mental Health Nursing Team and SHERPA

Victoria Medical Centre Mental Health Service hub in Primary Care

Clinical Improvement -
Long Term Conditions

Dr Sian-Lee Ewan, Reimaging Primary Care Delivery for Diabetes

A Cardio-Renal-Metabolic Quality Improvement Programme, Widnes

Living Well with Diabetes - Dr Ballal Seddique GP, Blithehale Medical Centre, Tower Hamlets

Modality East Surrey – ProActive365

Housebound Nurse Service: Holistic Home-Based Care for People with Long-Term Conditions

Leigh PCN Chronic Pain Support Group

Phoenix PCN Luton 

James Wigg Group Practice CARE Programme

South East Shropshire PCN Dementia MDT

Renal Cardiometabolic Project Team – Lambeth

Willows Health Pharmacy Led Centre of CaReMe Excellence and CVD optimisation

The Harefield Health Lung Project

Workforce wellbeing award

Compass House Medical Centres

Dr Susie Bayley, Hub Plus Derbyshire

Somerset Careers Plus

Women’s Wellbeing at Work, Dr Suneeta Kochhar & Dr Zoe Schaedel

The Local Primary Care Federation Health & Wellbeing Team

Richmond Road Medical Centre

Wellbeing is a Lifestyle at Modality East Surrey Medical Practice

Modality Partnership: Supporting Staff Wellbeing through Holly Health

Midday Movers - Dr Janet Reeve, GP Partner, Rope Green Medical Centre

Central, Thistlemoor and Thorpe PCN/Integrated Neighbourhood

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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