Nottingham City Place-Based Partnership Wins HSJ Award

We are proud to announce that the Nottingham City Place-Based Partnership (PBP) has won Integrated Care Initiative of the Year at the HSJ Awards 2025, recognising our innovative programme supporting people experiencing Severe and Multiple Disadvantage (SMD). This award is a powerful endorsement of our collaborative, place-based approach and the positive impact partners are having on the lives of some of Nottingham’s most disadvantaged residents.

Picture of 11 people, mixture of men and women, who attended the award ceremony with the award and host Rob Brydon.
Picture of colleagues who attended the award ceremony with the award and host Rob Brydon.

People who experience SMD face extreme and long-standing health inequalities. Many encounter a cycle of crisis, decline and repeat service use, resulting in significant demand, resource pressures and workforce challenges across health and care systems.

Over the last five years, the PBP has brought together a wide and active collaboration of colleagues from across the system – including people with their own lived experience – to design, implement and deliver a sustainable, place-based model of support for people experiencing SMD.

Each year the SMD programme has been successful in stopping the revolving door of the same services spinning for hundreds of people, helping them to recover, sustain tenancies and rebuild their lives, reducing their reliance on emergency healthcare. The impact on health and care settings is also significant, with an average 75% reduction in hospital admissions and 65% reduction in A&E attendances for people receiving specialist support after three just months.

Thank you and huge congratulations to all our partners, especially those with their own living or lived experience of SMD, who are so integral to our programme. This work would not be possible without the hundreds of people across our SMD partnership who consistently go above and beyond every day to make a difference to people’s lives.

Notes:

People experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage have overlapping experiences of homelessness, problematic substance use, mental-ill health, domestic and sexual violence and/or abuse, and victimisation or offending.

Nottingham West PCN Mental Health Team shortlisted in two categories at the 2025 HSJ Awards!

Congratulations to the Nottingham West PCN (Primary Care Network) Mental Health Team, who have been shortlisted in two categories of the prestigious national Health Service Journal Awards (HSJ awards).

The team is in the running for Mental Health Innovation of the Year and Primary and Community Care Innovation of the Year. 

The shortlistings follow closely on from the team’s win in the Most Innovative Practice category at this year’s Occupational Therapy Excellence Awards in June. 

The PCN and its Mental Health Team cover 12 GP practices across the three Broxtowe neighbourhoods of Beeston, Eastwood and Stapleford.  

Catherine Seals, PCN Mental Health Team Lead / Mental Health Occupational Therapist, said: “We’re very excited to be receiving such a high level of recognition for Nottingham West PCN’s mental health innovation. It’s such an important part of supporting the wellbeing of our local communities and we’re delighted to be making such a difference to people’s lives.” 

Dr Emma Shapiro, GP at The Manor Surgery, Beeston and PCN Neighbourhood Lead for Beeston added: “This service offers so much within primary care and within communities. It’s wonderful to have a such a range of skilled mental health colleagues on hand to support both practice teams and patients and we are proud to provide a non-pharmacological approach to mental health and wellbeing. As a GP, I am reassured that my patients can have access, within our practice, to support for any challenges they may face with mental health and neurodiversity.”   

The award winners will be announced on 20 November 2025. 

Nottingham City PBP shortlisted at the 2025 HSJ Awards!

Nottingham City Place Based Partnership (PBP) is delighted to announce that our programme to support people experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage (SMD) has been shortlisted for the Integrated Care Initiative of the Year at the 2025 HSJ Awards!

This is recognition of the exceptional work and innovation demonstrated by all partners to support people experiencing SMD. Our partnership approach continues to grow from strength to strength, now with 15 statutory and voluntary sector organisations across primary, secondary, community and mental health NHS services, adult social care, housing and criminal justice involved in our place-based delivery model.

Every year our partnership is stopping the revolving door of the same services spinning for hundreds of people, helping them to recover, sustain tenancies and rebuild lives, while reducing reliance on high-cost, reactive healthcare service.

Now with over 200 members, our SMD partnership sits at the heart of these efforts. We’re proud of the work our partnership is doing together to support people experiencing SMD and are delighted this has been recognised by the HSJ judges.