Sponsors
If you are interested in sponsoring this year's awards competition there is still time to get involved - call Alison Dunn on 020 8334 4500.
This year's sponsors and supporters include
The Department of Health (DH) exists to
improve the health and wellbeing of people
in England. The Department provides strategic
leadership to the NHS and social care
organisations in England. For further
information about our role and work please
visit our website www.dh.gov.uk.
Unite is the UK’s biggest union and its
membership in the NHS covers a wide range
of health professionals. The largest group is
healthcare scientists, and speech and language
therapists are very significant part of our AHP
membership. Unite represents the professional
and employment interests of these members
throughout the NHS.
GateHouse, with over 20 years experience, delivers bespoke learning and development programmes to public and third sector organisations and specialises in management, leadership, personal skills, finance and budgets, and project management.
It's 20 strong faculty of ccourse leaders and associates are all highly experienced in these sectors.
The Department of Health, Social Services and
Public Safety was established by the
Departments (NI) Order 1999. The Department
administers the business of:
• Health and Personal Social Services, which
includes policy and legislation for hospitals,
family practitioner services, community health
and personal social services;
• Public Health, which covers responsibility for
policy and legislation to promote and protect
the health and well-being of the population of
Northern Ireland; and
• Public Safety, which encompases responsibility
for the policy and legislation for the Fire
authority, food safety and emergency planning.
The devolved Government for Scotland is
responsible for most of the issues of day-to-day concern to the people of Scotland,
including health, education, justice, rural affairs,
and transport. Our purpose is to focus
Government and public services on creating a
more successful country, with opportunities
for all of Scotland to flourish, through increasing
sustainable economic growth.
The Federation, formed in 2002 is the overarching body for the professional organisations representing healthcare scientists. The government recognises healthcare scientists as vital but the public is often unaware of the contribution they make to the services provided by the NHS. The Federation provides a collective voice for science in the health service to the government, other health care professionals and to members of the public.
The Welsh Government’s areas of responsibility include the economy, health, education, and local government in Wales. Welsh Ministers make decisions which affect people’s daily lives, develop and implement policy, make subordinate legislation such as regulations and statutory guidance and propose Assembly Measures (Welsh laws).
Caboo is a design and communications agency, specialising in the healthcare world and delivering a trusted service at an agreed price.
With our knowledge of the healthcare world we understand the challenge of staff engagement, quality improvement and change management. Our team includes journalists who work daily with developments in health and copy editors familiar with the 'language' of healthcare.
Our designers work almost exclusively on healthcare projects in the UK and internationally and have a deep understanding of the marketing and communication challenges in this sector. We help many healthcare organisations including Royal Colleges, professional bodies, charities and Trusts to engage with their various audiences through newsletters, campaigns, events and web-based activity.
NHS Employers represents trusts in England on workforce issues and helps employers to ensure the NHS is a place where people want to work. We work with employers to reflect their views and act on behalf in four priority areas: pay & contracts, recruitment & workforce planning, healthy & productive workplaces and employment policy & practice.
The Federation brings together the bodies that represent the professions workng in allied health. We provide collective leadership on issues of commonality that impact on our members. The Federation is delighted to support these national awards for the allied health professions and health scientists.