Interweave win at HFMA Awards

Interweave, hosted by Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, have won the Delivering Value with Digital Technologies award at the HFMA National Healthcare Finance Awards.

The award win recognises the development of an integrated digital platform that is addressing the fragmentation of patient data across the system. The Interweave platform was developed closely with three Yorkshire Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), covering more than 74 organisations from health and social care, GP practices and care homes.

The HFMA National Healthcare Finance Awards recognise and celebrate the work of finance teams and individuals from across the UK. The Delivering Value with Digital Technologies award specifically recognises innovative digital initiatives that reduce costs, increase productivity or improve patient care.

The NHS-owned Interweave platform has taken huge strides in the development of a unified view for clinicians accessing a patient’s care record. The solution provides clinical staff with a single, real-time view of a patient’s key information, providing a secure ‘virtual window’ into the separate systems operated by GPs, hospitals, community services and social care. This directly improves the care patients received, as the information their clinician needs is accessible and collated in one place.

The project has delivered measurable outcomes across system efficiency, time savings and direct patient care. In 2024/25, in the Humber and North Yorkshire region alone, this amounted to £4.1m in efficiency savings, nearly 166,000 hours of saved staff time and more than 1,300 avoided ambulance conveyances, which had the knock-on benefit of reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

The HFMA judges praised Interweave for their ‘genuine partnership’ approach that included finance teams at all participating organisations. They also highlighted that other areas/regions were not only welcome to join, but also to bring new insight and requests to the table. ‘We were struck by how flexible the access was for partners utilising the platform and that the solution was seen only as an enabler, not the “thing” in itself,’ they said.

Lee Rickles, Chief Information Officer at Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust and Programme Director for Interweave, said the complete focus of the project was on supporting service users and staff. ‘It is not designed around the technology, that is the easy bit,’ he said. ‘The driver was whether we were delivering something easy to use, intuitive and that adds value. And the feedback has been extremely positive from our users. We now hold data for 14% of the English population and are continuing to grow and benefit from increased partnerships.’

Interweave has been uniquely designed to utilise modern technologies and is delivered by our dedicated in-house team, which is a part of Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust. The Interweave solution is owned and managed by its users, who are represented on the Interweave Management Board.