PrescQIPP

2025 PrescQIPP Award winners announced

Many congratulations to all the winners of this year's PrescQIPP awards who prevailed among stiff competition.

  • Gold award winner - Cardiorenal optimisation for adults with type 2 diabetes - Aneurin Bevan UHB
  • Silver award winner - Embedding inhaler recycling into the NHS - South East London ICS
  • PCN c.difficile improvement project - Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB
  • Innovating for Impact:  A Technology based approach to safer Enoxaparin self-management - Northern Health and Social Care Trust
  • Assuring safety: A new model for monitoring independent providers - Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB
  • ICB-led medication training offer for adult social care staff, including medication champions training - Bedfordshire, Luton & Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board Care Home Medicines Optimisation Team
  • Subscriber of the Year - North East and North Cumbria ICB
  • Champion of the Year - Louise Hynes, Department of Health Northern Ireland

Highly commended:

  • Improving Access and Optimisation of Heart Failure Therapy Through a Pharmacist-Led Service in Primary Care - ASPIRE PCN, Nottingham City GP Alliance
  • Addressing Overprescribing in Frail Older People living in care homes - The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
  • South-West London’s (SWL's) pioneering and holistic digital strategy to generate real-world data from high cost drugs data platform to optimise patient outcomes - South West London ICB
  • To assess the effectiveness of a "Pharmacy First" approach in re-directing patients with minor illness and the 7 clinical conditions, from Urgent and Emergency Care services to community pharmacists - North West London ICB
  • STOMP/STAMP: From Guidelines to Real Change - Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Learning Disability and Autism Collaborative
  • Assuring safety: A new model for monitoring independent providers - Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB

You can view details of all the winning and highly commended projects including summaries, additional information, links and downloads here.

You can also view all of this year's entries in our Community resources section. If you are looking for some inspiration for your next medicines optimisation project or want to find out if anyone else has undertaken a project you are currently considering, do take a look.