Apply now for the MediWales Innovation Awards 2025
4 September
Applications are now open for the 20th annual MediWales Innovation Awards.
Health and Care Research Wales is pleased to once again be supporting the Health and Social Care Research Partnership with Industry Award, to showcase the very best of Welsh research innovation.
This award recognises Welsh health professionals, clinicians, or health boards that have partnered with industry to deliver a project or developed a collaboration with a particular focus on health or social care research. Projects should have a positive impact on the health, wellbeing, and prosperity of the people in Wales.
The event will feature a number of awards across industry and health sectors:
2025 Industry Awards
- Innovation
- Start-up
- Partnership with the NHS
- Export
- Outstanding achievement
2025 Health Awards
- Health and Social Care – Industry Collaboration
- Technology and Digital Impact
- Scaling Up Innovation and Transformation
- Social Care Innovation
- Health and Social Care Research Partnership with Industry
Only Welsh companies, or companies with a footprint in Wales are eligible to apply for the industry awards, and only Welsh health boards or companies working in collaboration with a Welsh health board are eligible to apply for the health awards. All applications for the health awards must come from the health professionals, clinicians, health board that the company has worked in collaboration with.
The winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony on 4 December 2025 at the Mercure Holland House Hotel in Cardiff.
Last year’s winners of the Health and Social Care Research Partnership with Industry Award were, the Gwent Interventional Radiology (IR) team at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, led by Dr Nimit Goyal.
To enter, email Bethan Davies at MediWales asking for an Health and Social Care Research Partnership Awards with Industry application form by 10 October 2025. Good luck!