RLDatix Awards
Celebrating Excellence in Health and Care
The RLDatix Awards recognise and credit those who drive improvement, champion patient safety, and go above and beyond to enhance the quality of care for all.
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About the RLDatix Awards
The RLDatix Awards celebrate the dedicated teams and individuals in health and care, who relentlessly strive to deliver exceptional care.
These awards recognise and give credit to those who drive improvements, champion patient safety, and go above and beyond to enhance the quality of care for all. Find out more about this year’s awards and discover our previous winners below.
RLDatix Awards 2026
Digital Solutions Empowering the Workforce
WINNER: Implementation of SafeCare to Enhance the Safe Staffing Framework – Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended: Building a Connected and Digitally Enabled Workforce – Priory
Delivering Safer Care
WINNER: Trust Oversight and Monitoring of Patients Detained Under the Mental Health Act in an Acute Hospital Trust – York and Scarborough Teaching Hospital Trust
Highly Commended: From Budget vs Establishment to Safe Care: Giving Community Inpatient Teams Confidence to Make the Right Call – Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Transforming Workforce Wellbeing and Flexibility
WINNER: Rostering for Workforce Wellbeing: Flexible, Fair, and Fit for the Future – The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended: Digital Solution for Flexible Working Requests – Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Collaborative Excellence in Working Together to Improve Care
WINNER: Learning Disability and Autism Awareness Education – North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended: Beyond Admission: A Youth Worker approach to holistic care for young people with mental health in Gloucestershire – Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Driving Productivity and Operational Excellence
WINNER: Streamlining Workforce and Payroll Operations Across 34 Hospitals – Ramsay Health Care UK
Highly Commended: Workforce Metrics Forecasting & Predictive Modelling – Sickness absence and Workforce Planning – Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Efficient and Impactful Care Delivery
WINNER: Supporting Urgent Requests for End‑of‑Life Certification (SURE) Pathway – East Berkshire Primary Care
Highly Commended: Workforce Efficiencies Improvement Programme – NHS South Yorkshire ICB
Learning and Improvement Through Reporting and Safety Insight
WINNER: From Assurance to Learning: Ward Quality and Safety Improvement – University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust
Highly Commended: From Learning from Incidents to PSIRF-Driven Quality Improvement – Barts Health NHS trust
Improving Care Through Data and Insight
WINNER: Using Datix Data to Support Proactive Perioperative Safety – Barts Health NHS Trust
Highly Commended: Turning Data into Confidence: How Real Time Insight Improved Care, Staffing and Sustainability – Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Legacy of Impact Award
WINNER: Digital Volunteers – The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended: Erostering – GMMH Collaboration Approach 2025 – Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
RLDatix Awards 2025
Digital Solutions Empowering the Workforce
WINNER: Robotic Process Automation in Recruitment – Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended: Job Planning the Medical Workforce – Whittington Health NHS Trust
Delivering Safer Care
WINNER: Transforming clinical governance: a collaborative and coordinated approach to patient safety – Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended: PATH – Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
Transforming Workforce Wellbeing and Flexibility
WINNER: Valuing Our Bank Workforce: Boosting Fill Rates and Reducing Agency Spend – Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended: Team Based Rostering – London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
Collaborative Excellence in Integrated and System-Wide Care
WINNER: People Digital Programme – Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board
Highly Commended: Newly Qualified Recruitment Collaboration – Coventry and Warwickshire System Partners
Outstanding Care Across Non-Acute Settings
WINNER: Empowering Community Nursing Through eCommunity – North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended: Transforming Workforce Management: A Six-Year Digital Evolution – Barchester Healthcare
Driving Productivity and Operational Excellence
WINNER: Optimising Inpatient Staffing: Net Hours Reduction and Roster Efficiency Programme – Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended: Improving Safer Staffing Governance through Oversight and Partnership Working – Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Efficient and Impactful Care Delivery
WINNER: Reducing Registered Bank and Agency Spend – United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Highly Commended: Go Decaf! – Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Learning and Improvement Through Incident Reporting
WINNER: Seclusion Episode Monitoring – Priory Hospital Burgess Hill
Highly Commended: Turning Awareness into Action: Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Support – Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
Improving Care Through Data and Insight
WINNER: Building Data-Driven Rostering Excellence Through Collaboration and Insight – London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
Highly Commended: Strategic Workforce Transformation: A Story of Data-Driven Impact – Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Legacy of Impact Award
WINNER: Temporary Staffing Spend Reduction and Workforce Optimisation Programme – Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended: Safer Staffing Long Term Improvement Initiative – Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Excellence in Care Award
ORGANISATION WINNER: Priscilla Wakefield House Nursing Home
INDIVIDUAL WINNER: Adewale Samson Olibamoyo (‘Samson’) – Lifecome Care Limited
RLDatix Awards 2024
The RLDatix Awards 2024 celebrated the dedicated teams and individuals in health and care, who relentlessly strive to deliver exceptional care.
In a time of challenges and resource constraints, these awards recognise and give credit to those who drive improvements, champion patient safety, and go above and beyond to enhance the quality of care for all.
Safer Care Award
WINNER: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended: NHS Grampian
Supported Workforce Award
WINNER: Imperial College Healthcare
Highly Commended: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Sustainable Organisation Award
WINNER: Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership
Highly Commended: Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Engagement Award for Innovative Collaboration
WINNER: North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended: NHS Fife
Innovative Award For Quality Improvement
WINNER: Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Safety And Workforce Effectiveness Across A System Award
WINNER: Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
RLDatix Awards 2023
The freshly renamed, the RLDatix Awards were held at Bournemouth International Centre in October 2023. The RLDatix community came together to applaud the hard work, dedication and exceptional achievements of the 53 applicants to that year’s Awards cohort.
Below we showcase the winners’ remarkable achievements from that year.
Safer Care Award
WINNER: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Highly Commended: Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Supported Workforce Award
WINNER: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended: Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Sustainable Organisation Award
WINNER: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Highly Commended: South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board / Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospital
Fairer Award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award
WINNER: West Yorkshire Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism (MHLDA) Workforce Collaborative
Highly Commended: Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Innovative Award for Quality Improvement
WINNER: Epsom and St Helier Hospital NHS Trust
Highly Commended: Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
Engagement Award for Community and Collaboration
WINNER: NHS Dumfries and Galloway
Highly Commended: West London NHS Trust (on behalf of North West London ICB)
RLDatix Awards 2022
Prior to being called the RLDatix Awards, the Allocate Awards were held at the Exhibiton Centre in Liverpool in November 2023.
Workforce Innovation Award
JOINT WINNER: Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust
JOINT WINNER: Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Highly Commended: South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust
Datix Manager of the Year Award
WINNER: NHS Wales, Shared Services Partnership, Welsh Risk Pool Services
Diversity and Inclusion Champion Award
WINNER: Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended: Sirona Care & Health
Commitment to Patient Safety Award
WINNER: NHS Wales, Shared Services Partnership, Welsh Risk Pool Services
Highly Commended: London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
Roster administrator of the Year Award
WINNER: Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended: Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Overcoming Physical Barriers / Embracing Flexible Working Award
WINNER: The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended: King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust