HPMA partnership working award
For the seventeenth year, we are proud to sponsor this award. Celebrating joint work between employers and trade unions to support NHS staff in their delivery of healthcare services.
What we’re looking for
We want to hear how you’ve gone above and beyond to support your workforce in partnership with trade unions. Tell us about an initiative or policy you’ve co-developed in partnership from the outset, and where partnership working made a significant contribution to successful development and delivery. We especially want to hear how our partnership working structures helped you to bring about positive and measurable change.
Why enter?
The finalists will be announced at a national awards ceremony in Bristol on 12 November. The winner will then be invited to showcase their initiative with healthcare leaders in one of our national meetings, and their work will be featured as a case study on our website.
Want inspiration?
Read case studies from last year’s HPMA partnership award winner and runners up:
- Boosting wellbeing and attendance in partnership - winner of the 2025 award, employers and trade union colleagues from across the North West rigorously co-developed a new wellbeing and attendance policy, which was then implemented in partnership.
- A partnership approach to embedding sexual safety - shortlisted for successful partnership working to embed sexual safety among staff.
- Delivering real change and improvements in South Yorkshire - shortlisted for delivering real change and improvements for the workforce in South Yorkshire since introducing social partnership working in 2022.
Enter now
- Submit your entry via the HPMA website.
- Read the official award entry guide.
- Read HPMA's guide to writing a winning entry.
- Read our guide to writing a winning partnership award entry.
The closing date for entries is 13 May 2026 at 22.55pm.
Promote the award
- Download and share our HPMA partnership award flyer.