NHS NWL & Vizify win ‘Data Integration Project of the Year’ at the 2026 HSJ Partnership Awards

The Vizify team

March 10, 2026

Vizify Analytics is thrilled to announce that its data integration project developed in collaboration with NHS North West London Integrated Care Board (ICB), has been awarded Data Integration Project of the Year at the 2026 HSJ Partnership Awards. The award recognises projects that demonstrate outstanding collaboration, innovation, and impact on patient care.

Over 10 years, the Vizify Analytics team has partnered with NHS NWL ICB to unify siloed data across eight boroughs, creating a single source of truth for 2.8 million patients, with the latest milestone being a cloud migration to Snowflake.

Previously, clinicians and analysts relied on fragmented and often conflicting reports, making it difficult to identify high-risk patients or allocate resources effectively. The challenge was clear: deliver a data architecture that supports proactive, population-level care.

To meet this challenge, NHS NWL ICB partnered with Vizify Analytics to co-develop a metadata-driven ingestion framework and modern cloud data warehouse on Snowflake. The platform automates ingestion from 20+ source systems with daily refreshes, embedded quality validation, auditing, and rollback features. Migrating from a legacy SQL Server environment while maintaining full service continuity, and aligning diverse datasets, were major challenges, overcome through co-design, shared governance, and automated validation. Close collaboration between technical, clinical, and analytical teams maintained confidence in the system throughout.

Whole Systems Integrated Care (WSIC)

The Whole Systems Integrated Care (WSIC) platform enables proactive care and population health management by allowing stakeholders to identify cohorts, plan interventions, and evaluate impact at scale. The architecture has evolved through three technology generations, maintaining full continuity while enabling new use cases to deploy in weeks instead of months.

NHS NWL ICB - Whole System Integrated Care (WSIC) Platform (3)

Today, WSIC powers 40+ advanced dashboards and decision-support tools across long-term conditions, cancer screening, vaccinations, mental health, and population health management. By integrating records from 57 providers, including acute, community, mental health, social care, and national datasets, the platform enables proactive, multidisciplinary, workflow-aligned care.

Notable examples include the London Asthma Decision Support (LADS) tool and Asthma Radar (highly commended at the 2023 HSJ Awards), giving clinicians visibility of inhaler technique, adherence, and exacerbations. Other dashboards cover COPD, diabetes, frailty, mental health, vaccinations, stroke prevention, hypertension, and access to primary care. Together, these tools provide frontline staff, MDTs, and commissioners with a holistic, near real-time view of patient care and population health.

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The Vizify Analytics team has enabled North West London ICB to rapidly implement a full Business Intelligence suite to support our integrated care agenda; from the design of our Data Warehouse through to the deployment of reports and Tableau dashboards into our Tableau server.

Kavitha Saravanakumar, NHS North-West London, Director of Business Intelligence

Dashboards and data products enabled by WSIC:

Respiratory: Asthma LADS (HSJ Highly Commended), Asthma Radar, COPD Radar, COPD Population Health
Cardiovascular & stroke: Hypertension, AF Stroke Prevention, AF Radar
Frailty & risk: Frailty Radar, Escalating Risk Radar, Frailty Population Health
Long-Term Conditions (LTCs): Diabetes, Dementia, LD Dynamic Register
Cancer screening: Cervical and Bowel dashboards
Immunisations: COVID-19, Flu Vaccination
Other areas: Mental Health, CYP Risk Segmentation, HIU, GP Access, PC Data Quality

See the full list of NHS NWL dashboards enabled by the WSIC platform.

Key project highlights and benefits:

Faster insights: Long-term condition algorithms that previously took a day now run in under 10 minutes.
Rapid onboarding: New data sources are integrated in hours instead of days.
Enhanced patient care: 40+ dashboards and tools support population health, long-term conditions, vaccinations, cancer screening, frailty, mental health, and high-risk patient monitoring.
Holistic patient view: Clinicians and care teams can access real-time, longitudinal patient records across acute, community, mental health, social care, and primary care settings.
Improved capacity and cost avoidance: Automated ingestion, validation, auditing, and a single scalable framework support 2,269 dbt models, 1,164 automated data quality tests, 371 seed files, 224 feed parts, and 7,935 columns, without increasing team size.
Daily dashboard refreshes providing actionable, near real-time insights, enabling faster, evidence-based decisions.
System-wide trust and governance: A governed “single source of truth” integrates 57 providers and underpins decision-support tools across long-term conditions, screening, vaccinations, population health, and proactive care interventions.
Research and innovation: Secure, pseudonymised datasets enable advanced analysis, evidence-based decision-making, and national policy contributions.
Proven outcomes: Value-based healthcare programs show significant impact. For example, in Camden, integrated case management for frail and elderly patients achieved 51.8% reduction in emergency bed-days and 47.7% reduction in A&E attendances within six months. Similar benefits are expected as NWL deploys frailty, long-term condition, and high-intensity user dashboards to reduce hospital admissions and improve quality of life.
Long-term sustainability and capability: NWL staff gained hands-on experience with the platform, embedding skills for ongoing development and governance. The framework is being shared with other NHS organisations and expanded as part of the London Secure Data Environment initiative.

The WSIC platform is now a national exemplar, referenced in key policy papers, including the Data Saves Lives Strategy (DHSC), Lord Darzi’s Independent NHS Review, and supporting NHS England’s 10-year plan segmentation analysis.

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This award is a recognition of the long-term partnership and dedication of both Vizify Analytics and NHS North West London ICB. By combining cutting-edge technology with deep domain expertise, we’ve built a platform that transforms fragmented data into actionable insights, enabling clinicians and commissioners to deliver safer, more joined-up care at scale.

Max Kenney, Co-founder and CTO, Vizify Analytics

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Max Kenney, Co-founder and CTO, Vizify Analytics

This project demonstrates how integrated, trusted, and workflow-aligned data foundations can transform healthcare analytics from fragmented reporting into actionable insights that improve patient outcomes and reduce health inequalities.

📖 Read the full case study: Integrating siloed data for over 2 million Patients across NHS North West London

About HSJ Partnership Awards: The HSJ Partnership Awards 2026 celebrate the most effective collaborations between suppliers and NHS organisations, highlighting projects that deliver measurable improvements in patient outcomes, operational efficiency, and system-wide innovation.

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NHS NWL & Vizify win ‘Data Integration Project of the Year’ at the 2026 HSJ Partnership Awards