Medipex NHS Innovation Awards & Showcase 2026 Launch and Call for Entries
Tuesday 05 February 2026
We’re excited to share that the Medipex NHS Innovation Awards & Showcase 2026 has launched and the Call for Entries is now open until Friday 27th March.
The Medipex NHS Innovation Awards & Showcase 2026 is an opportunity to acknowledge and promote the achievements of NHS staff members and their collaborators who have developed innovative ideas to improve patient care across the NHS. The competition is now open for NHS-led innovation and Industry-led entries from across the UK.
The NIHR HRC in Paediatrics and Child Health team is pleased to once again support this event and we look forward to what will be another engaging and successful event.
Call for Entries
Entries are now open and will be accepted into the following five categories.
NHS-led categories:
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- Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve patient outcomes
- Improved treatments, therapies, and rehabilitation
- Delivering benefits through diagnosis and screening
- Process and systems innovations
New to this year, the 5th category is Industry-led: “Addressing patient safety challenges”. Entries must be led by an SME who can demonstrate some engagement with an NHS or social care organisation, and address an unmet patient safety need.
This year entrants have the opportunity to submit a video as part of their application form, outlining the problem that they are trying to solve and the proposed benefits, as an alternative to the standard entry form.
The Call for Entries closes on Friday 27th March.
Save the Date
The Medipex NHS Innovation Awards & Showcase event will take place online on Wednesday 24th June.
The Awards event is a calendar highlight each year and is an occasion to celebrate the incredible people working in the NHS who go above and beyond. The Awards celebrate those who take the initiative to identify what can be improved in patient care and what we can do to achieve this, to showcase all their hard work, and to say ‘we see you and what you are working to achieve’. Finalists and winners are an inspiration to others to have the confidence to make a difference as well.
For more information on how to enter and to stay up to date with key activities and announcements, please visit the Medipex website and sign up to their mailing list using the links below.
About Medipex
Medipex provide consultancy services primarily to support innovations from the idea stage through proof of concept and demonstration of efficacy and safety, for example by providing advice on intellectual property protection, market intelligence, product development planning, obtaining grant funding and commercialisation strategies as well as providing business and contractual support.