BBH Awards 2023 - The Winners

The 2023 Building Better Healthcare Awards ceremony was held today in central London, with 33 trophies handed out across five categories reflecting innovation within the healthcare sector.

Celebrating its 25^th anniversary, this year’s competition was judged by a 12-strong panel of industry leaders who presented awards across four key areas – estates and facilities management, building design, the patient environment, and technology.

And there were also three special award categories this year – the Patients’ Choice Award, Clinicians’ Choice Award, and the Grand Prix Design Award.

Winners ranged from major new hospital developments, to small, but game-changing community-based facilities; and from technology to help patients self manage their medical conditions, to impressive arts projects which are helping to humanise hospital environments.

Through the estates and facilities awards, we also recognised some of the people behind these achievements, who have kept the healthcare estate operational through the most challenging of times.

Below is the full list of this year’s winners and highly commended entries.

Patient Environment Class

Best Interior Design Project (Refurbishment)
- Winner: The Manser Practice – The Acorn and Gaumont House Surgery

Best Interior Design Project (New Build)
- Winner: The Manser Practice – Chesterfield Royal Hospital New Emergency Department

Best External Environment/Landscaping Project
- Winner: The Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust – The Sensory Wellbeing Garden and Retreat at the CAMHS Unit at Radlett, Herts
- Highly Commended: Medical Architecture/Scott Tallon Walker Architects – National Forensic Mental Health Service Hospital

Best Collaborative Arts Project (Static)
- Winner: NHS Lothian Charity’s Arts and Round Table Projects for East Lothian Community Hospital

Best Collaborative Arts Project (Performance)
- Winner: Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT for CUH Arts Creative Engagement Programme – Arts and Culture in Cancer Care Environment

Estates and Facilities Management Class

Best Carbon Reduction Initiative
- Winner: Carrier AquaSnap heat pumps at Musgrove Park Hospital
- Highly Commended: Kier Construction for Devizes Health Centre

Estates and Facilities Team of the Year
- Winner: Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Trust
- Highly Commended: EXI Group for the QEH RAAC programme estates and facilities team

Best Patient Safety Initiative
- Winner: Kingsway Group for the KOSMOS Smart Monitoring System
- Highly Commended: Safehinge Primera for the modular bedroom with one key for staff

Building Class

Best Healthcare Development (UK – value <£10m)
- Winner: HLM Architects – renal unit at Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
- Winner: Aecom for Goodman’s Field Health Centre, London
- Highly Commended: Race Cottam Architects and Graham Construction for Leengate
- Highly commended: TSK Group for the Bupa Lantern Healthcare Clinic
Best Healthcare Development (UK – value >£10m)
- Winner: NBBJ/HKS for the Royal Liverpool University Hospital
- Highly Commended: Wates and Camden Council for The Abbey Centre, Camden
- Highly Commended: BDP and ISG Contractors for the Oak Cancer Centre

Best Mental Health/Dementia Care Development
- Winner: Architype for Edward’s Court – the UK’s first Passivhaus extra care home

Best Modular/Mobile Healthcare Facility
- Winner: Health Spaces for the Concept Ward at James Paget University Hospital
- Highly Commended: ModuleCo Healthcare for the three-theatre centre of excellence at Neath Port Talbot Hospital
- Highly Commended: MTX Contracts for Derriford Hospital Royal Eye Infirmary

Best Interior Building Product
- Winner: Forbo Flooring Systems – Marmoleum Topshield Pro

Best Furniture and Fixtures Product
- Winner: Delabie for the SECURITHERM recessed shower mixer
- Highly Commended: Safehinge Primera for the SureGrip Ligature-Safe Handle

Best Private Healthcare Facility
- Winner: KB Architects for Vere Dental, London

Best International Healthcare Facility
- Winner: Medical Architecture/Scott Tallon Walker Architects – National Forensic Mental Health Service Hospital

Technology Class

Healthcare Software – Process or Admin Centred
- Winner: CareLineLive for the all-in-one home care management software
- Winner: OneTouch Health Group for the OneTouch Health app

Healthcare Software – Patient Centred
- Winner: vCreate for the vCreate secure clinical video service

Best Use of Technology (Primary/Community Care)
- Winner: Surrey Physio Group for Rehab My Patient

Best Use of Technology (Acute Care)
- Winner: Brandon Medical for the 3Ts redevelopment and SMART integrated acute care equipment

Best Communications System
- Winner: Surgery Connect by X-on Health

Special Awards

Clinician’s choice
- Winner: Comhairle nan Eilean Siar for Goathill Development, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis
- Winner: Medical Architecture for Kimmeridge Court Eating Disorders Unit
- Winner: Gilling Dod Architects for Aspen Wood low-secure learning disabilities unit

Patient’s Choice
- Winner: Surrey Physio Group for Rehab My Patient
- Winner: South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust – Creative Minds: The Caring Garden
- Winner: St Columba’s Hospice GRESCO Agape international songwriting project for patients and schoolchildren
- Winner: The Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust – The Sensory Wellbeing Garden and Retreat at the CAMHS Unit at Radlett, Herts.
- Winner: Medical Architecture/Scott Tallon Walker Architects – National Forensic Mental Health Service Hospital.
- Winner: CareLineLive for the all-in-one home care management software