Digital Champion Award

The Hospice UK Awards celebrate the innovative work taking place in hospices and palliative care organisations across the UK, and the people involved with them

The Digital Champion Award recognises the work of an individual who has passionately promoted the use of technology or digital ways of working in a hospice or palliative care organisation.

The 2025 Award is now open for nominations! The winners will be announced at the Hospice UK National Conference in Liverpool in November.

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About this award

This award celebrates individuals that have encouraged and supported others to use technology or digital tools and techniques to:

  • Identify or better understand and/or solve a problem (or be progressing towards solving a problem).
  • Improve quality or efficiency
  • Reduce barriers and improve access

The technology or digital tools and techniques they have used don’t need to be cutting edge, but how they were used may be innovative for your organisation. 

What the judges are looking for

Read our submission criteria and general guidance. Applicants were encouraged to consider the following information when making their nomination:

What was the problem that you were trying to solve?

  • Why was technology/digital the right approach?
  • Why was this approach innovative for the organisation?
  • Did the Champion work independently or in collaboration with others?
  • How did the Champion engage other people in the use of technology or digital ways of working. This could be colleagues, service users, customers, donors or others.
  • If a particular technology or digital tool was used, was there a reason for choosing this instead of something else? 

What was the impact?

  • Who benefitted?
  • Was there a measurable benefit?

Applicability

  • Could the approach be applied by other parts of the organisation or other organisations?

Enter now

To nominate someone for the 2025 award, please complete our short online form.

The deadline for submitting entries and nominations is 5pm on Monday 8 September 2025. 

The winners will be announced at our National Conference in Liverpool from 25-27 November 2025.

Hospice UK has announced the winners of its 2024 Awards at the annual National Conference, which took place this year in Glasgow

Hospice UK Awards Entry Form

Submit your entries for this year's Hospice UK Awards.

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Previous winners

Aaron Salter, Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent, is the 2024 winner of the Digital Champion Award at the Hospice UK Conference

2024 Winner: Aaron Salter, Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent

Aaron Salter of Pilgrims Hospices is someone who epitomises the idea of 'humanising technology'. The panel were particularly impressed with his tenacity to solve a data problem and create insights for colleagues in all departments, particularly focusing on improving patient care. 

They were impressed with his collaborative approach, working with colleagues from across Pilgrims, but also beyond into the Kent & Medway ICB, neighbouring hospices, and contributing nationally to the Hospice UK Data Analyst network. 

More about Pilgrims Hospices
Duncan Fleming, Mountbatten Hospice, was the winner of the 2023 Digital Champion Award at the Hospice UK National Conference

2023 Winner: Duncan Fleming, Mountbatten Hospice

Duncan and the team at Mountbatten Hospice collaborated on four pieces of work both internally and externally, with neighbouring hospices and others. This collaboration showed innovative thinking in multiple areas, and an eagerness to share the work, and learnings, more widely.

The Panel said: “Duncan and the Mountbatten team are worthy winners of the Digital Champion Award. We were particularly impressed with their collaboration with neighbouring hospices to share IT services and develop future IT professionals through a mentoring scheme for students. Their commitment to sharing knowledge and learning more widely stood out as an opportunity to improve digital services across the hospice sector."

Find out more about Mountbatten Hospice