The Medilink Healthcare Business Awards 2025
The Medilink Healthcare Business Awards is a calendar highlight and has seen some of the industry’s highly commendable innovations and successes receive the recognition they deserve over the years.
As part of our commitment to the Healthcare sector across the North of England, we come together every year to celebrate the achievements of life science companies over the past year and showcase the very best examples of collaboration between industry, academia and the NHS.
The Medilink Healthcare Business Awards is a showcase event that offers a chance to demonstrate the North’s strong capabilities, innovation and commercial successes and highlight the expertise in our region.
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2025 Award Winners
We want to thank & congratulate our 2025 Award Winners from across our nine categories:
Innovation Award
Sponsored by: Leyton
For the development of innovative technology, design and or processes that has produced a major improvement in business performance.
Shortlisted for this award:
| Bouygues Energies & Services |
| NunaBio |
| Olberon Ltd (with collaboration from Nottingham Trent University) |
| LabSkin |
| Primer Design |
| TestCard |
Export Achievement Award
Sponsored by: Haseltine Lake Kempner
For maximising opportunities to exploit and develop new markets or outstanding performance in other areas of International trade.
Shortlisted for this award:
| EthOss |
| Safespaces |
| GBUK Group |
| Novocuris |
| Schultz Medical |
Advances in Digital Healthcare Award
Sponsored by: Health Innovation Networks
Demonstrates how digital technologies were employed to enhance current service delivery or create new ways of delivering healthcare.
Shortlisted for this award:
| XR Therapuetics |
| InHealthcare |
| Circle Health Group Northern Region |
| Wellola |
| C2-Ai |
| Optonet |
Partnership with the NHS Award
Sponsored by: MFL Insurance Group
For the development of a partnership in collaboration with industry / the NHS that has major impact / benefit.
Shortlisted for this award:
| Airglove Medical |
| The Real Birth Company |
| Digital Autopsy |
| Steri-Pod |
| Aire Innovate |
| LightOx |
Start Up Award
Sponsored by: Swift | Powered by Haddletons
For newly-established companies in the healthcare sector that show a promising future.
Shortlisted for this award:
| IG Technology |
| Celox |
| 1 Clinical |
| Viveca Biomed |
| Atelerix |
| ClotProtect |
Partnership with Academia Award
Sponsored by: MHA
Demonstrates how the collaboration / partnership has or will enhance current service delivery or create new ways of delivering healthcare.
Shortlisted for this award:
| Circle Health Group & Liverpool John Moores University |
| Vernacare & University of Manchester |
| Additive Design & University of Leeds |
| Paxman & Sheffield Hallam University |
| MetalloBio & Nottingham Trent University |
Sustainability Award
Sponsored by: Hill Dickinson
For a commitment to change within an organisation that has been clearly communicated both internally and externally.
Shortlisted for this award:
| SageTech Medical |
| Crest Medical |
| EthOss |
| Atelerix |
Outstanding Achievement Award
Sponsored by: Bouygues Energies & Services
For an achievement that has had a significant or vital impact on the company.
Shortlisted for this award:
| Health Care First Partnership |
| Digital Autopsy |
| LightOx |
| LabSkin |
| Seda Pharmaceutical Development Services |
| Yourgene Health |
One to Watch Award
Sponsored by: Lumon
The one to watch award recognises those companies that deserve special recognition for their contribution to the sector and achievements in the previous year.
Shortlisted for this award:
| UpaCare Health |
| The Inhaler Tailor |
| Sapien View |
| Asclepius |
| ND Axon |
Event Partners
Climb25, DSV Solutions, Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Medical Alley, Medipex
Thank you to all of our event partners for helping to make our Awards Evening happen:
Our Charity Partner
We are incredibly proud to have supported our charity partner for 2025, Horatio’s Garden.
Horatio’s Garden builds and looks after extraordinary gardens in the heart of NHS spinal injury rehabilitation centres.
Spinal injury can happen to anyone at any time. The results are life-changing and devastating. Our gardens outside the hospital wards offer a place for reflection and adjustment, privacy and solace, joy and companionship for people and their families.
From gardening sessions and arts workshops to live music, Horatio’s Garden Sheffield & East will be a warm and welcoming place all-year-round.
We believe everyone with a spinal injury should have access to a Horatio’s Garden as part of their rehabilitation care.
Our gardens are made possible entirely by donations. Thank you to Medilink for selecting Horatio’s Garden as the charity partner for the 2025 Medilink Healthcare Business Awards.
For more about the charity – see their website: horatiosgarden.org.uk