The Medilink Midlands Business Awards are taking place on 15 May 2025 at Grand Station, Wolverhampton.
Celebrating the achievements of medtech and life sciences businesses, our awards showcase the strength of the industry, collaboration and innovation across the Midlands and neighbouring regions.
Applications for the 2025 season are now closed, and the finalists will be announced at the WMHTIA Celebration Event on 13 March.
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Hear from the 2024 Business Awards winners
In our recently launched podcast series, we chat to the winning organisations from the Medilink Midlands Business Awards 2024, who share the reasons behind applying, and how the award win has supported their growth ambitions and increased visibility across the sector.
Each year, the awards recognise the most exceptional and innovative life sciences and medtech companies and industry collaborations.
Applications for the 2025 season are now closed. Thank you to all who applied and we wish you the best of luck.
2025 categories
This season, we have introduced two new categories celebrating the CSR champions and exceptional service providers across our industry.
Click on the tabs below to view the category descriptions.
For newly established companies that show a promising future.
For an innovation that is being adopted by the NHS and that has demonstrated an impact on efficacy, patient outcomes and NHS system costs.
For the development of innovative technology, design and/or processes that have produced a major improvement in business performance & impacted the market.
For an outstanding achievement that has had a significant or vital impact on the company and market showing potential for continued growth.
Awarded to the company who demonstrate how digital technologies were employed to enhance current service delivery or create new ways of delivering healthcare.
For substantial growth in overseas earnings and commercial successes.
Awarded to the company who demonstrate how the collaboration / partnership has or will enhance current service delivery or create new ways of delivering healthcare.
For a commitment to change within an organisation that has been clearly communicated both internally and externally.
This award aims to recognise an organisation or individual that has demonstrated commitment to corporate social responsibility. The applicant must be able to demonstrate how they have helped to tackle key health, social or environmental issues through their CSR activities along with the impact had.
The Innovation in Service Delivery Award recognises service providers in the Med-Tech and Life Science sectors that have demonstrated exceptional creativity and ingenuity in their approach to service delivery. This award is for companies or individuals that have developed additional benefits or added value for customers along with innovative solutions or processes that have significantly improved the quality, efficiency, or accessibility of their services.
For businesses which show a great deal of potential.
The recipient of this award is decided by the judges.
For any queries regarding applications, please contact [email protected].
Whether you’re looking to enhance your credibility, build connections, or showcase your achievements, the Medilink Midlands Business Awards offer a platform to amplify your success.
Here are 10 benefits to expect from applying:
- Enhanced industry recognition
- Increased credibility
- Networking opportunities
- Brand awareness
- Employee morale boost
- Supporting recruitment efforts
- Business growth
- Benchmarking excellence
- Customer trust
- Opportunity to gain national recognition
 | Start-up Award
| Winner: MESOX
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 | Delivering Innovation in to Health and Care
| Winner: Cytecom
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 | Innovation
| Winner: Bioxhale
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 | Outstanding Achievement
| Winner: Upperton Pharma Solutions
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 | One to Watch – Judges’ Award
| Winner: Ademen
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 | Advances in Digital Healthcare
| Winner: Black Space Technology
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 | Export Achievement
| Winner: Cellomatics Biosciences
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 | Partnership Between Academia and Business
| Winner: Healthcare Technologies Institute (HTI), School of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Birmingham (UoB) and Salts Healthcare
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 | Sustainability
| Winner: Pennine Healthcare
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Click here to watch the videos of all the winners from the Medilink Midlands Business Awards 2024.
Sponsor | Award | Bio |
|---|---|---|
 | Partnership between Academia and Business | Arise Innovation Hubs, part of ARU, support businesses working within the Health, Performance and Wellbeing sectors, located in Chelmsford and Harlow. Members can enjoy tailored business support, including access to grant funding, networking opportunities and serviced office facilities.
Arise is supported by the expertise and resources of ARU, providing skills, talent, innovation and business support. Arise is a partnership between ARU and Essex County Council with support from Chelmsford City Council and Harlow Town Council. This partnership aims to promote business growth and innovation in Essex. |
 | Innovation in Service Delivery |
At Datalink Electronics, we are dedicated to advancing innovations that make a real difference in healthcare and life sciences. Supporting the Innovation in Service Delivery Award reflects our commitment to fostering solutions that drive both customer satisfaction and operational efficiency—key pillars in achieving excellence across the service industry.
Datalink is excited to partner with Medilink Midlands to honour and celebrate the pioneers who are redefining service delivery. By spotlighting these transformative achievements, we aim to inspire further advancements that benefit patients, healthcare providers, and the broader community. |
 | Delivering Innovation into Health and Care | Health Innovation East Midlands and Health Innovation West Midlands are health innovation adoption experts. |
 | Delivering Innovation into Health and Care | They work locally as part of the national Health Innovation Network to transform lives through innovation by supporting health and social care teams to find, test and implement new solutions to the NHS’ greatest challenges, driving economic growth.
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 | Sustainability Award |
Mills & Reeve has one of the largest specialist life sciences teams in the UK and can guide you to make the most of your ideas and products, offering all the legal advice you need. Our team operates both nationally and internationally can advise wherever you need, whether that is to protect your latest idea, deliver a strategic transaction or deal with complex compliance issues. Our deep sector knowledge and experience provide solutions and risk analysis to enable you to seize the opportunities open to you. |
 | Innovation Award | At Walk Through Walls we help our innovators, entrepreneurs and businesses grow and succeed, by overcoming the barriers they encounter. Whether you want to understand more about how politics affects your business, how you can influence change or have an exciting idea you want to help launch, a member of our network of Associate Partners will be able to help. We’re proud to support this award to help celebrate everything businesses do to create jobs, investment and growth, especially here in the Midlands. |
 | Video Sponsor – AS Studios |
Medilink Midlands offers sponsors a variety of options that meet their specific needs and budgets, whilst maximising the benefits of our network and events.
For our Business Awards, we invite organisations the opportunity to be part of our timeline right from the start of the entry process, all the way through to the event itself so we can guarantee as much exposure as possible for our valued sponsors.
“We’ve supported the awards for many years, and have been a Patron of Medilink Midlands for many years… We really enjoy seeing the whole plethora of different businesses. Within the Midlands, we have such diversity of business, ranging from data analytics through to medtech, biotech and pharma services. It’s a fascinating sector, and the Midlands plays a key role.”
James Fry, Partner and Head of Life Sciences at Mills & Reeve
“I’ve been a keen advocate of Medilink Midlands for the last few years, and it’s a privilege to sponsor one of the awards.”
Janet Worrell, Associate Director, Regulatory at JensonR+
“We’ve been Patrons of Medilink Midlands for over 12 years now, and been working with them for the full 20 years they’ve been in operation. It’s been fantastic to be part of their journey, and being part of the Medilink community by helping companies really succeed is an absolute pleasure.”
Sam Stephens, Director at TBAT Innovation
To be part of our awards through our sponsorship opportunities, email [email protected] to discuss packages.
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