Chief Allied Health Professions Officer Awards 2025
The Office of the CAHPO is delighted to confirm the shortlists for the CAHPO Awards 2025. We would like to thank all category judges and sponsors who dedicated their time and expertise.
The category winners will be announced during the Chief AHP Officer’s AHPs Day live address on Tuesday 14 October 2025 at 9:30am.
Creative Provision of Placements Award – awarded by the Council of Deans of Health
- Oxford Brookes Student Physiotherapy Clinic: Enhancing Health, Training and Community
- iMSK Student Academy, MSK Physiotherapists, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
- University of Bradford physiotherapy team, Physiotherapy team lecturers, University of Bradford
- Krystal Mpofu, Operating Department Practitioner, St. Georges NHS Trust
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Children and Young People’s Speech and Language Therapy team, Reading University and Reading University Speech and Language Therapy students
AHP Public Health Award – awarded by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
- Charlotte Paterson, Deputy Head of Occupational Therapy, Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
- Jenny Stickney, Advanced Occupational Therapy Practitioner/Consultant Occupational Therapist, Dorset Healthcare University Foundation Trust
- The Portsmouth Early Language Support For Every Child Team, speech and language therapists, speech and language therapy assistants, with a programme manager and business support, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
AHP Digital Practice Award – awarded by NHS England
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust Children’s Speech and Language Therapy, Children’s Speech and Language Therapists, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
- Davinia Rodgers and Emma Smith, Clinical Learning Environment Lead and AHP Legacy Mentor Lead, Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care System
- David Roberts, Senior Digital Clinical Advisor, Leeds Community Healthcare
- TSDFT Digital First MSK Physiotherapy Team, Enhanced MSK Physiotherapists, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
- Community Podiatry, Podiatrists, North Cumbria Integrated Care Team
AHP Workforce Transformation Award – awarded by NHS England
- Aisha Raja, Louise Surridge, Alice Dawes, Project Lead (Aisha Raja), Project Participants (Louise Surridge and Alice Dawes), Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
- Patsy Fung, Chief AHP, Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Faye Dickinson, Cancer Rehabilitation Ambassador, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation
- Allied Health Professionals in Mental Health Services (Portsmouth), Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
AHP Innovation and Improvement Award – awarded by NHS England
- Sean Edwards, Advanced Paramedic Practitioner/Practice Development Lead, South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
- South East Staffordshire SQuIRe Project Team, MPFT SQuIRe funded project to scope stroke service in South East Staffordshire and trial a 6-month Pilot Community Stroke Service, Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust
- Selina Dare, Occupational Therapy Lead – Perinatal Service, Devon Partnership NHS Trust
- Dr Claudine Matthews, Consultant Dietitian, Shoreditch Park and City Primary Care Network
- Charlotte Swoffer, Naomi Barker, Anto De Vries, Patricia Mestre Pinto, Lucy Weston, Joanne Wraight, Toni White, Millie Creevy, Dharmashi Madhu, Orthoptic Department: Orthoptists and Orthoptic Assistant, East Kent Hospitals University Foundation NHS Trust
AHP Research Impact Award – awarded by the Council for Allied Health Professions Research and the National Institute for Health and Care Research
- OPTIN Trial Team, Research team, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Gemma Stott, Consultant Dietitian, St. Georges, Epsom and St. Hellier NHS Trust
- Professor Jonathan Hill, Clinical Academic Physiotherapist, Keele University
Greener AHP Award – awarded by Greener NHS
- Emma Myers, Occupational Therapist and Horticultural Therapist, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Bromley Healthcare Integrated Therapies Team, Urgent therapies, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy, Bromley Healthcare
- Joe Courtney and BDCFT Green Therapy Team, Green Therapy Development Officer, Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Allan Woodhouse, Paramedic, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- Catherine Potter, Jude Brown, Tara Sims, Vicky Gibson, Alissa Ellis, Sarah Adelakun, Jackie Gordon, Student placement coordinators from University of Brighton and Sussex Community NHS FT, PHRC representative, practice educator and students, Sussex NHS Foundation Trust and University of Brighton
AHP Leadership for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Award – awarded by NHS Race and Health Observatory
- Neil Gokani, Head of Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) and Engagement, Sirona Care and Health CIC NHS provider
- Anna Coldwell and Beverley Sinden, Major Trauma Rehab Physiotherapists, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
- James Barber, Therapeutic Radiographer, The Royal Free London
- Zoe Oram, AHP Education Lead, University Hospital Southampton
- Naomi McVey, Regional Head of Allied Health Professions and national programme lead AHP support workforce at NHS England
CAHPO Award 2025 – awarded by the Chief Allied Health Professions Officer (England)
Awarded by the CAHPO, this is for the outstanding contribution and overall ‘AHP of the Year’, decided from the winners of each of the categories above.