E-Health Awards 2010 - applications open!

Have your team used IT to improve the safety of patients? Made services more efficient? Transformed the working lives of clinicians?
Entries for the E-Health Insider Awards 2010 are now open and free to enter. Click here for further information and to submit your application. Nominations close on 4th June 2010!

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E-Health Insider Awards 2010 in association with BT

Have your team used IT to improve the safety of patients? Made services more efficient? Transformed the working lives of clinicians?
Entries for the E-Health Insider Awards 2010 in association with BT are now open and free to enter. For more information about each category, including criteria and how to enter, click here

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Innovations Competition 2010

The Yorkshire & Humber NHS Innovation Awards & Showcase 2010 aims to identify individuals and teams working for the NHS whose ideas or inventions have directly led to or could lead to improvements in patient care and must be capable of being scaled up for wider implementation across the NHS.

The competition is open to all NHS staff in the Yorkshire and Humber region (individuals and teams) or anyone working with an NHS employee in this area.

Closing Date: 5pm on Friday, 26th February 2010

For further information and submitting your entries go to the website

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Do you know an outstanding nurse?

Last year Nursing Times celebrated the 60th anniversary of the NHS by asking readers to nominate the 20 nurses who had had the greatest influence on the profession over the previous 60 years. There are many exceptional nurses who are helping to transform healthcare, and we believe that they deserve to be more widely recognised.
You are invited to nominate any outstanding nurses who you believe have provided leadership to the profession over the past 5-10 years in the areas listed here. A panel of distinguished judges will decide which shortlisted nominees will join the Diamond 20 in the Hall of Fame.
Make sure your respected and admired colleagues gain the recognition they deserve, nominate them now.
What to do now:
Visit the website, choose your categories and then email your nominations to hofnominations@emap.com by 8 January 2010
The Hall of Fame inductions will be announced at a celebration in the Great Hall of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London on Thursday 18 February 2010.

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Lean Healthcare Academy - Annual Exhibition & Awards 2009

The 2nd Annual Lean Healthcare Academy - Exhibition and Awards is being held at the Royal Armouries in Leeds on the 12th November 2009. Following on from last years success, this year will bring you more opportunities to network, more opportunities to see and share best practice, more opportunities to win an award and more opportunities to bring real time and cost benefits to your organisation. It truly is the essential Healthcare event of 2009. Click here for further details.

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EAC Housing for Older People Awards 2010

Celebrating specialised housing in later life, these new Awards by Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC) are open to all forms of retirement housing. For the first time the residents themselves will nominate schemes through a consultation involving them in small groups as well as individually. A deck of cards has been designed to stimulate discussions and help capture satisfaction ratings on design, services, and well-being.
These awards are supported by the CLG and by the Housing LIN, and endorsed by: Age Concern and Help the Aged, the Association of Retirement Housing Managers, the Centre for Housing & Support, the Chartered Institute of Housing, the Essential Role of Sheltered Housing, FirstStop Advice, the Retirement Housing Group of the Home Builders Federation, the Local Government Association, McCarthy & Stone, the National Housing Federation and the Audit Commission. Click here for further details.

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The NHS Centre for Involvement (NCI) Summer Conference - The Future of Involvement – putting patients at the heart of services.

Held on Thursday 2nd July at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster, London, the conference will look at The Future of Involvement – Putting Patients at the heart of services. With a key note speech from Joan Saddler, Director of Patient and Public Affairs at The Department of Health, the conference will highlight key questions for policy-makers and practitioners around involvement and its implementation within health and social care services.
Delegates will also be invited to attend the presentation of The Involvement Awards 2009 – an awards scheme which celebrates innovation and imagination in PPI throughout the country.
Click here for further information and to register.

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Support to enter Leeds Health Stars 2009

Are you thinking about entering the Leeds Health Stars 2009? Not sure which category to choose? Not sure how to write it up?

That’s what the award support workshops are for. The next one is on Thursday 11th June at Woodhouse Health Centre (9.30 -12). The format of the session is a brief 10-minute presentation specific to the awards with some hints and tips. The rest of the session is run as a surgery where our Learning & Improvement Manager will discuss the specifics of your application and offer any advice and guidance you ask for. Once you’ve got all the information you need, you’re free to go. In all likelihood you will have everything you need within the first hour. If you can’t make the workshop and would still like some support drop an email with your query to share.learn@nhsleeds.nhs.uk.

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The first Leeds Health Stars Awards are now open!

Leeds Health Stars 2009 are your chance to receive well deserved recognition for your achievements and an opportunity to share your experiences with others. The awards, which are open to all staff, teams and organisations involved in the provision and commissioning of NHS health care in Leeds, will share and celebrate excellence in innovation and improvement across the city.
The awards will be short listed by panels of health care professionals. The three short listed entries in each category will then be judged by a second panel of service users, patients and carers who will choose the overall winner.
Short listed entries will showcase their entry with a display at the NHS Leeds AGM in September. A sharing and learning event will also take place with each short listed entry presenting their project to colleagues from across Leeds and beyond. The evening awards ceremony will be held on Thursday 15 October 2009.
The closing date for entries is 19 June 2009. Application support workshops to help you submit a winning entry are taking place throughout May and June, so book you place now.
This is your chance to shine – good luck!
Click here to enter and for further information on the awards.

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HSJ Awards 2009 are now open for entries

The HSJ awards 2009 are your chance to be recognised for all your hard work in raising the standard of healthcare in the UK.
With 17 categories the HSJ Awards address all areas of healthcare and ensures recognition of the achievements made by individuals, teams and organisations. So why not click here and enter now! Deadline for enries is the 3rd July 2009. The awards ceremony will be held on 30th November 2009 at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London.

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Yorkshire and the Humber Health and Social Care Awards 2009

The NHS Yorkshire and the Humber Health and Social Care Awards present an unparalleled opportunity to recognise and celebrate the best examples of innovation and excellence we have to offer in Yorkshire and the Humber.
The ceremony will take place at Sheffield City Hall on the 28th May 2009, and will be hosted by Margaret Edwards, Chief Executive, NHS Yorkshire and the Humber, and ITV Calendar's Duncan Wood.
Videos will highlight the excellent work of all the shortlisted nominees before the winners are announced. The evening will open with the announcement of a publicly selected award - the 'Calendar NHS Health and Social Care Hero', where ITV Calendar viewers from across the region nominate and vote for their own special award recognising the public's unsung heroes. To register your place at the awards ceremony please click here and use the username: NHS Awards and password: Sheffield.

HR Excellence Awards - Now Open

The HR Excellence awards provide an opportunity to recognise and celebrate excellence in teams and employees in the public, private and third sectors. In 2009 good HR practice and employer reputation are going to be in the spotlight as never before as organisations seek to motivate and engage staff while driving performance in what will probably be the most challenging time for half a centuty. Deadline for entries is Friday 20 March 2009. Click here to find out more about the categories and to enter!

Nursing In Practice Awards 2009 - Now Open!

For the 2009 Nursing in Practice Awards, new categories have been introduced to represent and recognise different areas of excellence and innovation. These awards have been designed to recognise excellence and innovation in the primary care setting. The categories for this year's Awards are: Cardiac Care, Children's Health, Diabetes, Mental Health including Substance Abuse, Nutrition, Palliative Care, Respiratory Care, Sexual Health, Wound Care, and Team of the Year
So what are you waiting for? Submit your entry today. For details on how to enter, and for further details on the categories click here.

Royal College of Psychiatrists Awards 2009

The Royal College’s 2008–2011 Strategic Plan includes a firm commitment to finding new ways to recognise and reward excellent practice among our members. The RCPsych Awards have, therefore, been designed to identify the very best practice within psychiatry today and bring national recognition to the unsung heroes of psychiatry. Nominations are welcome from individuals, teams, organisations, service users and/or carers. Click here for further information.

Chief Medical Officer's Public Health Awards 2009

The Chief Medical Officer has established the annual Public Health awards to identify and acknowledge individuals, teams or services in England that have made an impact in public health. In determining the winners, judges will be particularly looking for evidence of impact, sustainability of the initiative and how replicable it is to other settings or areas.
The Awards are open to anyone working in public health in England, regardless of job title or role. The work being submitted for consideration must have been active on or after 1 January 2008. Closing date for entries is 22nd April 2009.

Health and Social Care Awards – additional support

NHS Yorkshire and the Humber are offering the opportunity for an objective review of submissions for the Health & Social Care Awards and can also provide top tips for filling in award applications. For further details email Angela Dunn or visit the NHS Yorkshire & Humber website.

Podcasts from the Dignity Matters Conference

At the Dignity Matters conference in November Sir Michael Parkinson chatted with Barbara Pointon, Barbara Dearnley and Amanda Waring - this was filmed and is now available as a podcast. Phil Hope the minister for care services also filmed an introduction talking about his commitment to the dignity campaign. At the end of last year 3 podcasts were filmed in Leeds with the 2008 winners of the Health and Social Care award for Dignity, the topics for these are commitment from top to bottom and explains the role of the councils scrutiny committee in ensuring dignity is a priority social marketing - how innovative approaches are reaching the people of Leeds dignity audits - including audits in care homes
Look out for these on the dignity website, they are expected to be published in the next week or two.

Shared learning: implementing NICE guidance

Have you got some tips to share with other organisations on implementing NICE clinical or public health guidance? Or would you like to learn from other people’s experiences? If so, the Institute’s ‘shared learning’ database can help.
NICE are looking for jargon-free, easy to understand examples of how you have successfully met the challenges – and overcome the pitfalls – of putting NICE guidance into practice.
The quality assurance process ensures that all examples appearing in the database meet a minimum quality standard.
All submissions will be entered into the new NICE Shared Learning Award. Find out further information here

Health Investor Awards 2009

The HealthInvestor Awards promote excellence and innovation in the healthcare sector.
The 2009 event will take place on 3 June at the Hilton Park Lane, London. The judges will be looking for organisations and individuals that have made an outstanding contribution to the industry in 2008.

Institute of Leadership and Management Awards for Excellence invite nominations

The Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Awards for Excellence recognise and reward forward-thinking individuals who have achieved outstanding results through leadership and management development.There are two awards presented in the compeition. The Award for ILM Learner of the Year and the ILM Achiever of the Year. Entries will be judged in UK national categories – England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The rest of the world will be judged in an International category. One winner from each of these categories will be put forward for nomination as the overall winner for Awards. The deadline for entries is 30 January 2009.