Entries are now being invited for the 2025 Healthcare Design Awards.

Previously run by Pinders, the awards, which were first launched in 1991, were last year taken over by Nexus Media Group, which also publishes Healthcare Property magazine.

The competition recognises innovation and excellence in the design of health and care facilities across the UK.

And the categories for next year’s competition have recently been announced.

There are a total of six trophies up for grabs in 2025. They are:

• Best Architectural Design: Recognising outstanding architectural design of a new care home, taking into account innovative layouts and aesthetics
• Best Interior Design: Recognising creative interior design of a new care home – e.g. use of colour, materials, and signage to improve the resident experience
• Best Exterior Design: Recognising standout design of care home gardens, terraces, balconies, and other outdoor spaces
• Best Specialist/Dementia Care Design: To be awarded to facilities for specialist or dementia care where innovative design has improved the lives of residents or patients
• Best Acute Care Design: Recognising innovatively-designed facilities for acute care service delivery
• Best Primary Care Design: To be awarded to innovatively-designed facilities for primary care

Jo Makosinski, editor of Healthcare Property, said: “The way we design health and care buildings is critical to the delivery of effective and efficient services.

“Increasingly, the environment is playing an even more-important role, and these awards aim to recognise this by rewarding those who are innovating in order to provide the very-best settings for modern health and care services.

“Whether they be care homes, GP surgeries, hospitals, or specialist care centres; the Healthcare Design Awards will celebrate those projects which are setting a precedent for the future, both in the UK and overseas.”

The entries will be considered by a panel of experts, with the winners being announced at a ceremony at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London on 13 February 2025.

For more information on how to enter the awards, or for details of sponsorship packages and tickets to the ceremony, visit the website at Home | Healthcare Design Awards 2025