Leicester Diabetes Centre (LDC), Loughborough University and UK logistics company, Wincanton have announced that their health promotion programme, the ‘Structured Health Intervention for Truckers’ (SHIFT), has been shortlisted for Most Impactful Partnership in Preventative Healthcare at the 2025 HSJ Partnership Awards.
The SHIFT programme aims to significantly improve the health and wellbeing of truck drivers by addressing the unique challenges they face, such as long hours of sitting, limited physical activity, and poor dietary options. It introduces an innovative, evidence-based approach to tackle obesity, cardiovascular risks, and other health conditions associated with a sedentary lifestyle. The programme aspires to set a new industry standard for health interventions, reducing health inequalities and improving life expectancy for drivers in a sector where health concerns are often neglected.
SHIFT was developed and evaluated by a team of researchers at LDC and Loughborough University. The researchers have recently worked in partnership with Wincanton to implement the programme in the real world.
Wincanton has integrated the SHIFT programme into its driver training as part of their compulsory Certificate of Professional Competency (CPC) module, making it the first evidence-based health promotion programme integrated into a professional competency framework for its more than 8,000 drivers.
SHIFT has been shortlisted for Most Impactful Partnership in Preventative Healthcare at the 2025 HSJ Partnership Awards. The HSJ Partnership Awards recognise outstanding dedication to improving healthcare and effective collaboration with the NHS. Now in their eighth year, the HSJ Partnership Awards have become the most well-known and respected mark of the strongest relationships between suppliers and the NHS. The full list of nominees for the 2025 HSJ Partnership Awards can be found at:
