This award recognises communications teams who have successfully worked collaboratively and in partnership with other organisations e.g. social care, local authorities, charitable and voluntary sectors and private on a successful communications and engagement project or campaign.

This award celebrates outstanding performance within the organisation and celebrates individuals aged 30 and below with growing talent and potential in NHS communications and engagement. The entry should include how the individual has performed and contributed, testimonies from colleagues and/or stakeholders and examples of specific campaigns and programmes of work they have supported or led on.

This award recognises charitable campaigns that have delivered exceptional engagement and impact across the NHS, galvanising stakeholders and communities to create tangible and lasting benefits for staff, patients and carers.

This award is sponsored by NHS Charities Together.

This award highlights the contribution that communications makes to the successful implementation and delivery of health and wellbeing initiatives and programmes for staff in their organisations.

This award is sponsored by Stand. 

This award recognises the boards of NHS organisations who have continually demonstrated and celebrated the strategic value of communications and engagement in its organisation. Entrants must demonstrate how the board provides ongoing leadership and support for communications and champions the discipline.

This award acknowledges the successful and sustained use of internal communications to engage staff, drive organisational change, or change an organisation’s culture. Entries should include detail on the aims and objectives set for internal communications and how impact has been measured.

This award is sponsored by NHS Employers. 

This award recognises campaigns that have demonstrated a clear impact on behaviours or have successfully engaged on a public health issue. Entrants must include examples of the campaign and evidence of impact and evaluation.

This award focuses on teams that have successfully utilised digital communications and social media, making effective use of data and insight to develop new and innovative approaches to communicating and engaging with patients, staff or key stakeholders. Entrants should demonstrate aims and objectives and evidence used to introduce new approaches. Entrants can also focus on a specific campaign or long-term and routine use of digital comms and social media.  

This award is sponsored by Touch Design. 

This award celebrates communications teams that have demonstrably championed diversity, inclusivity and equality. Examples can include promoting diversity through recruitment and retention and engaging and communicating with diverse audiences and being able to demonstrate an impact.

This award is sponsored by NHS Race & Health Observatory.