Health and care organisations scoop multiple personalised care awards

3 March 2025 

Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire health and care organisations have won multiple awards in the South West Integrated Personalised Care Awards 2024 at a ceremony held on 27 February 2025. 

The awards celebrate outstanding personalised care ‘tried and tested’ to empower people and their families across the South West to access healthcare and community support in a way that matter to them. 

Local teams won awards across seven different categories, including the Green Award, the Connecting People Award, the Choice & Control Award, the Seeing Me awards, the Collaborative Working Award, the Working Together Differently Award and the Personal Recognition Award. 

Jeff Farrar, Chair of NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB, said: 

“It is fantastic to have multiple teams, organisations and individuals recognised for their outstanding work in providing the very best personalised care for local people. 

“These awards are testament to our commitment to excellence and innovation in personalised care, and a celebration of the collaborative spirit that drives our success. 

“My congratulations and thanks go to all colleagues involved in these excellent services.” 

Let’s Walk Bristol were highly commended in the Green Award category for their work in connecting people with nature, local parks and wider countryside through Nordic walking, offering tasters, regular classes and workshops to bring people together, have fun and improve wellbeing. 

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership won the Green Award for their work in embedding nature-based care across their services, transforming how patients engage with their recovery. Their ‘Your Team, Your Conversation, Your Plan’ initiative also won in the Seeing Me Award category for their work to provide a new, more personalised and systems-based approach to care planning. 

Pioneer Medical Group won in the Connecting People Award category for their Meet in the Park initiative, a Saturday group meeting at Blaise Castle to support anyone struggling with their physical or mental health, or for people who just want to be out in the fresh air. 

Sirona care & health’s Partners2Care team won in the Choice & Control Award category for their work offering an independent advisory service for people with Personal Health Budgets who need care at home and would like support to arrange or manage their care. 

NHS@Home, which offers healthcare at home or normal place of residence, rather than in hospital, won in the Collaborative Working Award category. The win recognised multiple organisations working together to enable continuous bladder irrigation to be delivered at home as part of a palliative care package. 

The Recovery Navigation 999 project team, part of the The Mental Health Integrated Access Partnership, won in the Working Together Differently Award for their work in implementing mental health support through NHS 111, enabling the right support to be delivered at the right time. 

Simon Bone, from NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB, won a Personal Recognition Award for his work to support care leavers in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. Simon has been a driving force behind the Care Leavers Project, which aims to improve access to career and healthcare support for young people leaving care in the area.