You can find out more about the projects, places and people that were shortlisted in this year’s Nursing Times Awards by reading our special supplement.
The 2025 Nursing Times Awards supplement includes summaries of the winners across all 25 categories, plus for all of the shortlisted entries, to give you a flavour of our finalists’ entries.
Among them are the 2025 Nursing Times Nurse of the Year, Teresa O’Nwere-Tan, a heart failure clinical nurse specialist and advanced nurse practitioner at Nexus Health Group and South East London Integrated Care Board.
There is also our 2025 Nurse Leader of the Year Emma Firth, from Practice Plus Group, who oversees nursing care in prisons.
In addition, you can read more about this year’s winner of the Chief Nursing Officers’ Lifetime Achievement Award, Dr Crystal Oldman CBE, a champion of community nursing and until recently chief executive of the Queen’s Institute of Community Nursing.
And also the second ever winner of our Sustainability in Nursing and Midwifery category was revealed as East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, for its greener emergency response system.
Returning for a third year are Midwife of the Year, Nursing in Primary Care and the Dame Elizabeth Anionwu Award for Inclusivity in Nursing and Midwifery. Read more about them too.
The winners in each category of the awards were announced at a glittering ceremony held in London on Wednesday 22 October.
For details on how to start preparing to enter next year, visit the Nursing Times Awards website.
You can either view the supplement as a digital page turner or you can download the supplement in PDF form by clicking on the Related files link below:

