Here we are celebrating the winners of best abstracts at last year’s Wounds UK Annual Conference in Harrogate. The theme of the conference was “Data, Science & Practice” and over 250 posters were submitted and the overall winners of the Wounds UK Award for Excellence were Stefanie Mahan and Verity Ashcroft for their work on moisture-associated skin damage. This is a notoriously challenging wound type to manage but their work clearly demonstrates that with focussed interventions it it very possible to reduce the harm caused to patients.