Thank you to everyone who entered the competition and joined us, whether online or in person.

Congratulations to the Medicine 2026 abstract competition winners:

In-person categories

Best overall presentation

Bacterial myocarditis mimicking acute coronary syndrome in the setting of necrotising fasciitis

Stefan Sepamalai 

Best presentation in the research (including clinical, digital health, translational and innovation) category

Exploration into the adoption of the NHS app in a socio-economically deprived area: an observational study

Abhinav Sathyamurthy

Best presentation in the health services and sustainability, policy and workforce development category

Reduce 30-day hospital readmissions from skilled nursing facilities: a systematic review of transitional care

Ayah Abdalla

Best presentations in quality improvement and patient safety, audit category

Embedding routine quality of life assessment in geriatric cancer patients receiving chemotherapy: a quality improvement initiative

Thahaseen Basheer

‘About time’: improving use of the 6-hour decompensated cirrhosis care bundle

Áine Corry

Best presentation in case reports category

A case of thyrotoxic periodic paralysis complicated by electrocardiogram variability

Charlotte Buchalter

Best presentation in education, training and medical professionalism category

Prospective development of a Delphi questionnaire to assess clinical abbreviation use in past medical and family history documentation in a secondary healthcare system in the United Kingdom (UK)

Helen Addington

Online categories

Best poster

A family affair: recognising food-borne botulism as a rare cause of acute neurological deterioration

Pharveen Jaspal

Runner up – best poster

Vaccination against shingles and prevention of long-term ocular morbidity – a retrospective study of cost implications to the NHS

Alice Ditchfield