WELLBEING ENTERPRISES CIC AND NHS PARTNERS SHORTLISTED FOR FOUR HSJ PARTNERSHIP AWARDS 2025

Wellbeing Enterprises CIC is delighted to announce that it has been shortlisted for four HSJ Partnership Awards recognising outstanding dedication to improving healthcare and effective collaboration with the NHS. 

Now in their eighth year, the HSJ Partnership Awards have become the most recognised and respected mark of the strongest relationships between suppliers and the NHS. 

Following a thorough judging process, Wellbeing Enterprises CIC was included in 180+ organisations, projects and individuals that made the final shortlist amid 280+ entries logged for the 2025 awards programme. 
 
Wellbeing Enterprises CIC is shortlisted for the following awards in collaboration with NHS partners: 

  • Best Not for Profit Working in Partnership with the NHS, for Wellbeing Enterprises CIC’s 20 years of collaboration with NHS partner organisations across Cheshire and Merseyside. 
  • Most Effective Contribution to Improving Care for Those with Long-Term Conditions in collaboration with Warrington & Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for its Long Covid Service. 
  • Most Impactful Project Addressing Health Inequalities in partnership with R Health Runcorn Primary Care Network for its Complete Care Community Project Improving Outcomes for Children and Young People at Risk of, or Living with Conduct (Behavioural) Challenges. 
  • Primary and Community Care Project of the Year in partnership with NHS Cheshire and Merseyside (Halton Place) for its We Connect Social Prescribing Provision. 
     

Mark Swift, Founder CEO at Wellbeing Enterprises CIC comments, “I’m over the moon Wellbeing Enterprises has been shortlisted in four categories at the HSJ Partnership Awards 2025. This is a huge boost for our dedicated and hard-working team.  

For 20 years Wellbeing Enterprises has been delivering demonstrable improvements in health and wellbeing by helping people to help themselves overcome challenges, build their capabilities and live valued, dignified lives”. 

Dr David Lyon, GP and Clinical Lead for the Long Covid Service said: “Wellbeing Enterprises CIC has been the cornerstone of therapy for the Long Covid Service in Halton and Warrington from the very start. Wellbeing Enterprises provides vital psychosocial support to distressed people whose lives have been turned upside down, physically, financially, socially and psychologically. They measure outcomes diligently and are able to demonstrate the positive impact they have. Wellbeing Enterprises help people with Long Covid to manage their condition better, rather than the condition overwhelming them. They have proven themselves to be an integral and essential part of the service.” 

Lynne MacGugan, PCN Manager at R Health said “We’re delighted to be shortlisted for this prestigious award with our partners Wellbeing Enterprises CIC. The Complete Care Community programme focusing on Child Conduct (Behavioural) problems has been an extraordinary learning journey which has developed and sustained new partnerships to enable successful pathways of care for children. The partnerships which have been built continue to grow and develop and the work programme is improving the quality of lives for the children and families impacted.” 

Anthony Leo, Place Director (Halton) at NHS Cheshire and Merseyside commented, “We are delighted to be shortlisted for Primary and Community Care Project of the Year alongside Wellbeing Enterprises CIC at the HSJ Partnership Awards 2025. 

The HSJ awards programme is a high profile and hugely respected platform to showcase the work and achievements of the many healthcare professionals who enter, and we’re delighted that this initiative is being recognised for the real difference it is making to the health and wellbeing of so many residents in our borough.” 

The selected winners will be announced during the awards ceremony at Evolution London on 20th March 2025. 

The 2025 awards judging panel was once again made up of a diverse range of highly influential and respected figures within the healthcare community, including; May Mengyu Li, Director of Efficiency, NHS England, Janos Suto, Deputy Director, Urgent and Emergency Care Analysis and Performance, DHSC, Amanda Pleavin, Managing Director, East of England Cancer Alliance, Jacqui Bunce, Programme Director – Strategic Partnerships, Planning and Estates, Lincolnshire ICS, Caroline Taylor, Chair, National Association of Primary Care, and Alan Duffell, Group Chief People Officer, The Royal Wolverhampton Trust & Walsall Healthcare Trust. 

The full list of nominees for the 2025 HSJ Partnership Awards can be found at https://partnership.hsj.co.uk/finalists-2025 


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NOTES TO EDITORS 

For more information/media enquiries relating to the 2025 Partnership Awards, please contact Rebecca Bright on [email protected] or tel: +44 20 7608 9056. 

For more information relating to Wellbeing Enterprises CIC please contact James Smith, Operations Manager / Communications Lead on [email protected] or tel: +44 1928 589 799. 

ABOUT THE HSJ AWARDS 

The HSJ Partnership Awards recognise the most effective collaborations with the NHS and highlight the benefits that working with the private and third sectors can bring to patients and NHS organisations. 

ABOUT HSJ 

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