"This award belongs to the nurses, clinicians, operational teams and improvement leads at Wythenshawe Hospital who showed up every day and made this happen. When we first came together with MFT, we made a deliberate choice to listen before we acted. Our insight and discovery phase wasn't about arriving with a plan - it was about understanding what staff already knew and building on it together. What emerged was a genuinely shared picture of where change was needed most. That shared understanding is what allowed us to move at pace, redesigning how patients flow through the front door, expanding the use of SDEC, improving the daily rhythm of the site, and embedding more consistent discharge practices across wards. None of that happens without trust, and trust is built with people, not processes. Seeing Medical SDEC hit 40.8% of ED patients in November - above target, and watching AMU discharges before 4pm climb from 44% to over 50% in just a few months tells you what's possible when staff feel genuinely involved in improvement. We're proud to have stood alongside the Wythenshawe team in that work, and this recognition is a tribute to every one of them."

Peter Fry, Managing Director, Prism Improvement