WWRPB Conference & awards 2025
11 march 2025
Parc Y Scarlets, Maes-Ar-Ddafen Road, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, SA14 9UZ
We have listened to your feedback from the 2024 West Wales Health and Social Care Awards and are excited to announce expanded categories for 2025!
Nominations close on the 12th January 2025. After the nomination deadline, a panel of WWRPB members will shortlist the top three nominees in each category.
To nominate for these awards, follow this link:
Categories for 2025
Volunteer of the Year
The Volunteer of the Year Award recognises an exceptional individual who has demonstrated outstanding commitment, dedication, and impact through their volunteer work in the health or social care environment.
This award is for an individual that has supported local health, care or wellbeing services. This could be through:
•Providing support and information to people; need to be qualified to offer advice
•Helping people to maintain or improve their quality of life;
•Helping people to improve or maintain their health and wellbeing;
•Adding value to health, social care or wellbeing services.
Outstanding Contribution (To health & social care) Award
This category celebrates an individual or team that made an outstanding contribution or achievement within the health and social care sector in West Wales.
Team of the Year Award
This category celebrates the team who have shown excellence in collaboration and partnership working by:
•Demonstrating positive impact by forming, developing or transforming a team.
•Enabling improvements in the lives of West Wales citizens.
•Creating positive change through team working.
•Demonstrating measurable improvements through team working, collaboration and partnership working
The Rising Star Award
This award celebrates career professionals who demonstrate outstanding potential, innovation, and dedication to improving the lives of the people in West Wales by:
•Demonstrating a creative and innovative approach to their work, leading to new ideas or solutions which have led to a positive impact.
•Delivering high quality work which exceeds their role.
•Showing strong leadership qualities, which inspires others.
Creating a Legacy Award
This award seeks to acknowledge an individual who has created a lasting impact in the health and social care sector. This can be an improvement, service change or culture change for the people of West Wales.
Inspirational Leadership Award
This award honours acknowledges those who have provided exceptional guidance, support, and inspiration, fostering their growth and potential, by:
•Inspiring and motivating others to pursue their roles and encouraging them to make a difference
•Demonstrating that wellbeing is at the heart of the work.
Working in Partnership Award
This category celebrates:
•A project or a team who have demonstrated true co-production and continuous user led leadership and collaboration.
•Has demonstrated a positive impact on a service, project or team via genuine co-production.
•Can identify the key factors that led to comprehensive user involvement.
•Can demonstrate a service, project or team that was co-designed and delivered by users within West Wales.
•Can identify measurable improvements achieved through user involvement and co-production.
Citizen & Third Sector Choice Award
The Citizen and Third Sector Choice is not open to nominations. Nominees will be selected by the WWRPB Citizen and Third Sector Engagement Board members. For more information on the Citizen and Third Sector Board, please follow the link here https://wwrpb.org.uk/en/get-involved/
2024 AWARDS
achieving transformation through innovation AWARD
Integrated care AWARD
1st Place – Nutrition and hydration in a Dementia Friendly Hospital (Hywel Dda University Health Board)
Highly Commended – Fran Bayley, Nia Williams, and Steffan Warren – The Health Improvement Dietetic Team
Highly Commended – Leigh George and the Carmarthenshire Integrated Community Equipment Service (CICES) Team
Highly Commended – Pembrokeshire Community Hub
