UK Awards for Allied Health Professionals & Healthcare Scientists

The 2011 Advancing Healthcare Awards are organised by Chamberlain Dunn, the publishers of Health Workforce Bulletin. These Awards, now in their fifth year, recognise and reward projects and professionals that lead innovative healthcare practice and make a real difference to patients’ lives in the healthcare science and allied health professions.

Supported by all four UK health departments, AHP Federation, Unite the Union, the awards are unique in that they are UK-wide and cover all these professional and specialists groups whose achievements so often go unnoticed.

Key dates
Advancing Healthcare Awards launch - August 2010
Entry deadline - Friday 12 November 2010
Judging day - January 2011 (date tbc)
Awards ceremony and celebration lunch - Friday 18 March 2011

 

Enter now and show the world how you make a difference. Here’s what some of last year’s winners and guests said:

‘I was not expecting to win the award at all. I’d travelled down from Edinburgh, where I completed an orthopaedic surgeon’s course, to get to the ceremony, so I would summarise my feelings as: shocked, exhausted, surprised and delighted, of course!’
Katrina Kennedy, winner of the 2010 Chief Health Professions’ Officer’s award for leadership

‘It was great to see so many entrepreneurial AHPs being recognised for their achievements.’
Julia Scott, chief executive, British Association and College of Occupational Therapists.

‘It was a really special event and fantastic to see a celebration of all the great things that are happening in the NHS across the UK.’
Claire Marshall, head of physiotherapy services, Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, member of the National Leadership Council.