HPMA partnership working award
And the winner is...
This year’s HPMA partnership working award goes to North West/Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA), recognised for its response to the high staff absence rates in the region through working in partnership with trade unions.
The trust set out to do more to support staff to stay healthy and well, with employers and trade union colleagues from across the region undertaking extensive work to co-develop a new wellbeing and attendance policy, which was implemented working in partnership and has shown promising results.
The winning project was announced at the annual HPMA Excellence in People Awards ceremony, held as part of HPMA conference in Birmingham on 20 November.
Our runners up
Congratulations also go to our two runners up: South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, shortlisted for its partnership working approach to embedding sexual safety among staff, and South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board, recognised for its achievements in delivering real change and improvements across the NHS in South Yorkshire since introducing social partnership working in 2022.
Read the winner’s case study to learn more about this standout example of partnership working and the lessons learned.
You can also read case studies from our two runners up via the embedded links above or by visiting our case studies page.
Supporting the awards
For the sixteenth year, we are proud to have sponsored the HPMA award for partnership working and continued to celebrate collaborative working between employers and trade unions to support NHS staff.
We’d like to say a big thank you to all the teams who took time to submit an entry and share their good practice. It was inspiring to hear so many examples of excellence and success in social partnership working from across the service.
