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

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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

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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 

Harpenden 

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

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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

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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

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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-on-sea

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-on-sea

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

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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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