Bradford NHS Trust and MobSTR Celebrate National Cyber Security Award

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust and MobSTR have been named Cyber security solution of the year at the recent HTN (Health Tech Newspaper) Awards 2026 after transforming mobile application security through automation

The award recognises their work to transform the way mobile application security and privacy risks are assessed and managed within an NHS environment. The partnership has helped the Trust move away from lengthy manual application reviews towards automated assessment, faster evidence-based decision-making and continuous monitoring of applications after they have been approved.

The impact has been significant. Processing times for new mobile applications has reduced from weeks to minutes, while the number of staff required to participate in individual application approval decisions has also been reduced.

The Trust is also able to continually monitor applications already in use, providing greater visibility when applications change, new vulnerabilities emerge or their risk profile increases.

Delphine Fitouri, Head of Digital Services at Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust, commented “Processing time for new applications has gone from weeks to minutes and the Trust has been able to reduce the number of staff involved in making individual application decisions.”

“The platform gives our teams visual, evidence-based information that can be understood without requiring every member of staff involved in a decision to have specialist information security expertise.

“This means teams can respond much more quickly when somebody requests permission to use a new application.”

MobSTR Director Mark Adams added: “Winning Cyber Security solution of the year with Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust is particularly important to us because this award recognises what has actually been achieved in a live NHS environment.

“This is not technology for technology’s sake. Bradford had a genuine operational challenge. Assessing applications manually required time from multiple people and provided a view of risk at a particular point in time.

“Together, we have demonstrated that the process can be fundamentally improved.

“When an NHS organisation can take something that previously took weeks and reduce it to minutes, involve fewer people in the process and at the same time gain better ongoing visibility of risk, that is a powerful outcome.

“Applications continually change. New vulnerabilities emerge, permissions change and privacy risks evolve. NHS organisations need to know not simply that an application was acceptable when it was first approved, but whether it remains acceptable today.

“Bradford is demonstrating that stronger security and better governance do not have to create more administration. Done properly, they can actually remove it.”

Fitouri concluded: “As a healthcare organisation, we have a duty to keep our data safe, and MobSTR enables us to do this better and faster for our mobile applications.

“This provides our staff and our patients with assurance that we are making the right decisions at the right time in delivering the best care.”