Inform Health and NUH NHS Trust win ‘Partnership of the Year’ at Leading Healthcare Awards 2021

Inform Health’s COVID-19 staff testing partnership with NUH NHS Trust gained national recognition earlier this month, after winning the Partnership of the Year Award at the 2021 Leading Healthcare Awards.

Designed to celebrate and recognise great teams, partnerships, innovations and programmes across the health and care sectors, the Leading Healthcare Awards ceremony took place online, with a live-streamed digital awards evening announcing both category winners and runners up.

The winning partnership saw Inform Health and NUH NHS Trust work together under immense pressure to rapidly design and implement a system capable of rising to unprecedented challenges to create a fully electronic, efficient and effective method of delivering COVID-19 staff testing.

Commenting on the partnership, Howard Gees, Data and Systems Manager at Nottingham Integrated Sexual Health, said: “Our Trust’s response to COVID-19 staff-testing has only been successful because it was delivered as a partnership with Inform. Their response to our suggestions is excellent; working with us to form initiative ideas and quickly developing those into working solutions.”

Echoing Howard’s sentiments, Dr Ruth Taylor, Head of NUH’s Sexual Health, adds: “The agility of this testing development would not have been possible were it not for the existing sophisticated yet user-friendly design architecture of the Inform system and the support from the people behind the products at Inform, who continuously go above and beyond to support the needs of our staff and patients.”

For Andrew Denman, Co-Founder and Project Director at Inform Health, winning the Partnership of the Year Award demonstrates the company’s commitment to going above and beyond to deliver for clients when it matters most. Andrew concludes: “We always work closely with our NHS customers and pride ourselves on exceptional standards for our systems and customer service, but COVID-19 added a whole new dimension and level of urgency. Not only did we need to deliver a workable solution for NUH NHS Trust but we needed to do it fast. This simply wouldn’t have been achievable without a collaborative approach.

“We are incredibly proud that this partnership has been recognised by Leading Healthcare and that thanks to the success of NUH’s COVID-19 staff testing programme, countless staff hours have been saved and staff and patients protected. I’d like to extend my thanks to everyone involved in making this partnership such a success, at both Inform Health and NUH – it really was a phenomenal team effort.”