Advancing Healthcare awards 2017
Allied health professionals (AHPs), healthcare scientists and supporting staff may enter the Advancing Healthcare Awards.
Organised by Chamberlain Dunn, this is the 11th year the AHAwards are taking place. Entrants have until 5pm on 13 January 2017 to enter. The awards will be presented in London on 31 March 2017.
These awards are a way to acknowledge and reward professionals and projects that lead new healthcare practice and make a positive impact in patients’ lives. These UK-wide awards are open to healthcare scientists, allied health professionals and those who work alongside them in support roles.
The 2017 awards are:
Awards open to both AHPs and healthcare scientists
- Welsh Government’s Prudently advancing practice award
- NHS Employers Award for outstanding achievement by an apprentice, support worker or technician working alongside an AHP or healthcare scientist
- HSL Rising Star award
- HEE and NIHR awards for Research champions
- Chamberlain Dunn Learning award for Entrepreneurship.
Awards open to healthcare scientists only
- The Academy for Healthcare Science award for Innovation
- The Scottish Government’s award for Driving improvement, delivering results.
Awards open to AHPs only
- Faculty of Public Health and Public Health England Award for Contributions to public health
- The Scottish Government’s award for Improving quality: measuring and demonstrating impact
- The Macmillan award for leadership and innovation in cancer rehabilitation
- The Northern Ireland award for Maximising resources for success
- The Guardian award for innovation in mental health services.
Additionally this year there are two new awards: the Guardian award for innovation in mental health services, aimed at those working in creative therapies. Secondly Health Education England (HEE) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) have established a new award to recognise research leaders among healthcare scientists and AHPs.
The IBMS encourages its members to take note and enter for a chance to win one of these awards. To enter, go to the AHAwards website and submit your entry via the online website forms.
You can read about the different categories of awards here. Should you have any questions there is an infosheet available, or you can contact the AHAwards directly via Twitter, or Rachael Fisher from Chamberlain Dunn.