The National Health and Social Care Strategic Information Governance Network (SIGN) is very proud to announce the winners of its 2019 Inaugural Information Governance Awards:

- Information Governance Professional of the Year (healthcare) – Raz Edwards, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

- Information Governance Professional of the Year (social care) – Sarah Palmer–Edwards, (now) Barts Health NHS Trust

- Information Sharing Champion of the Year – Jane Marley, Mid, South and West Essex CCGs

- Information Governance Innovator of the Year – Yinka Williams, Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust

- Information Governance Team of the Year – Information Rights, London Borough of Camden

- Information Governance Human Encyclopædia – Mark Brincat, Devon Doctors Group

- Outstanding Contribution to Information Governance – Ranisha Dhamu, Brent – Lewisham – Southwark

The Chair of the SIGN, Andrew Harvey (who is Group Head of Information Governance and DPO at Brighton and Sussex University and Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trusts), said that "it is hugely humbling to see some of the wonderful work that colleagues are doing in the Information Governance field up and down the country, often as lone voices in their organisations". He continued “it felt like the time was right to honour some of that hard and sometimes lonely work, we had a wonderful response to the awards, and our winners are just amazing in their enthusiasm to make things better for service users by better management of their information. I truly want to congratulate them all, and indeed all of the nominees.”

The Awards were judged by a panel of Information Governance experts from around the country, with all nomination statements being blinded by name, gender and location.