UK MUM Awards 2026

Nominate healthcare teams making a real impact on safety, outcomes, and patient care.

Nominations are now closed

Recognising outstanding maternity and neonatal care across the workforce

Nominations for the UK MUM Awards 2026 have now closed.

Thank you to everyone who submitted a nomination and helped us recognise the exceptional maternity and neonatal teams making a difference to families across the UK.

Further updates will be shared soon.

Do you know a team or individual that has introduced changes and made maternity or neonatal services better for mothers, babies, and staff? We would love to hear all about it!

This is your opportunity to recognise the individuals and teams making a meaningful impact on safety, outcomes, and patient experience.

Do you know a team or colleague making a real difference?

Nominate those delivering exceptional care, leadership, or innovation across maternity and neonatal services.

Has your organisation made a meaningful investment in its workforce?

We welcome nominations for the ‘Improving Safety on the Frontline by Investing in the Workforce’ award, recognising initiatives that support and strengthen maternity and neonatal services.

What can be nominated?

You can nominate:

Individuals delivering outstanding care
Teams making a measurable impact
Initiatives improving safety, outcomes, or patient experience

Before you begin

Takes less than 5 minutes to complete
You can submit on behalf of your team or organisation
Open to all maternity and neonatal services across the UK

Important information

Nominations close on 20th July 2026.

What our judges will be looking for?

Retention and workforce wellbeing improvement
Projects that include the wider maternity and neonatal teams
Work that extends beyond compliance with national schemes
Innovative ways of providing training, or overcoming barriers to training provision
Training that responds effectively to guidelines, recommendations and evidence-based best practice
Examples of a significant commitment to multi-professional training
Examples of special training events
Impactful inclusion of feedback, service user voices and patient experiences in quality improvement work
Training that successfully helps to address inequalities in healthcare and/or is tailored to the local population

We’re looking for nominations with evidence of improvements – any outcome measures you have should be included.

Award winners

The winners of both the region and training awards will be invited to the House of Commons for a ceremony and celebratory dinner, hosted by Sir Jeremy Hunt, on Thursday, 3rd December 2026.

UK MUM Awards 2026 Nomination Form

Name

Phone number

Address line 1

Address line 2

Town

Postcode

Name of team you'd like to nominate

Information about the NHS team you want to nominate

Please share how the team have invested in the workforce

Phone number of team

Email of team

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