Awards Currently Open for Nominations
The JWC Awards seek to recognise the hard work done by health care professionals in all fields of wound care.
Deadline: as at 18 August 2023 open for entries (no closing date located)
The Dentistry Awards recognise excellence in dentistry across the whole of the UK.
Deadline: 15 September 2023
This award focuses on how NHS finance teams are making an active contribution to their organisation’s and/ or system’s efforts to tackle health inequalities.
Deadline: 22 September 2023
British Society for Rheumatology Best Practice Awards
The Best Practice Awards reward excellence and showcase exemplary rheumatology services by promoting innovation and best practice across every aspect of rheumatology treatment.
Deadline: 29 September 2023
The awards focus on partnership working and collaboration.
Deadline: 29 September 2023
These awards recognise employers who have embraced the business benefits of flexible working and have been proactive in seeking to recruit and retain talented staff particularly working parents.
Deadline: 27 October 2023
The Home Care Awards seek out examples of the expertise of companies providing home care in the UK and praise the teams that are making a difference by looking to raise standards.
Deadline: 30 November 2023
British Journal of Nursing Awards
The BJN Awards are a showcase of nursing excellence, highlighting the critical contribution that nurses make to healthcare.
Deadline: 8 December 2023
National Learning Disabilities & Autism Awards
These awards celebrate excellence in the support for people with learning disabilities.
Deadline: 10 May 2024
Ongoing Awards
These awards celebrate the best and brightest in UK nursing and midwifery talent.
Philip Goodeve-Docker Memorial Prize
The prize is offered to the top performing student of the District Nursing programme in every university in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
As an RCN member, if you know someone who has dedicated their time and energy to helping RCN members, you can nominate them for an RCN Award of Merit.
RCN Fellowship & Honorary Fellowship
The RCN Fellowship and Honorary Fellowship recognise practitioners, researchers, educationalists and leaders who share the RCN's commitment to advancing the art and science of nursing and the improvement of health care.
The Dora Roylance Prize for Student Health Visitors
This academic prize is offered for outstanding students who have completed the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) Health Visitor programme.
The Queen's Nursing Institute Long Service Award
The QNI Long Service Award is available to all community nurses across all specialties, who have completed 21 years of service.
Other Awards
These awards are currently not open for nominations.
Some awards charge a fee to enter so please go to the relevant websites to check if there is a fee for submission.
If there are other awards that you think should be on the list then please email clinical.librarian@ulh.nhs.uk
The Accolades are national awards for adult social care providers, services and individual employers in England.
The Advancing Healthcare Awards recognise and celebrate the work of allied health professionals, healthcare scientists and those who work alongside them in support roles, leading innovative healthcare practice across the UK.
The Allocate Awards are for those who have made a material and positive difference to the people in their organisation, their patients, service users and to the operational sustainability of the organisation itself.
ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing
The ALPSP awards are open to any new development, product, service, launch or project which is both innovative and of significant value to scholarly communication.
Antibiotic Guardian Shared Learning & Awards
These awards provide you and your organisation with a chance to highlight the continuous good work being carried out to support the key aims and goals of Antibiotic Guardian.
The Autism Professionals Awards have been created to recognise and reward services and professionals who are leading the way in innovative autism practice and making a real difference to the lives of autistic people in the UK.
Barron Prize. British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons
This award is for the best CD-ROM / DVD / video submitted by any Member of BAPRAS or by any plastic surgery trainee.
BIR Bayer Make It Better Service Award
This award is given to the group of people who have demonstrated the best improvement in an aspect of service delivery by making it more effective, or have improved patient experience.
The BMA medical book awards takes place annually to recognise outstanding contributions to medical literature.
BMA PLG Patient Information Award
The BMA PLG (patient liaison group) patient information awards take place annually to recognise exceptional patient information services and promote greater awareness and understanding of health matters, and patient choice.
The BMJ Awards are the UK’s leading medical awards. We promote excellence in healthcare and recognise the inspirational work of healthcare teams across the country.
Building Better Healthcare Awards
The Building Better Healthcare Awards is designed to recognise and reward innovation within the healthcare built environment, medical device and technology sectors.
The Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust Cervical Screening Awards identify and reward the UK's best local cervical screening campaigns and provide opportunities to share best practice with other health professionals, community groups and organisations.
Chief Allied Health Professions Officer (CAHPO) Awards
These awards celebrate contributions made by AHPs to support improvements in health, care and wellbeing.
These awards recognise and celebrate outstanding achievement in people management and learning development.
The CIPR Excellence Awards are a celebration of creativity and professionalism in public relations.
CN (Clinical Nutrition) Awards
The CN Awards recognise the achievements of those whose great work has made a significant difference within the nutrition industry – whether an individual, group or organisation.
The Communiqué Awards programme is specifically designed to recognise and commend excellence and best practice in local, European and international healthcare communications.
The Dementia Hero Awards recognise and celebrate the involvement and participation of people affected by dementia in activities and projects.
Dementia Research Leaders Awards: Alzheimer's Society
The Dementia Research Excellence and People Awards recognise the contribution that early- and mid-career researchers make to dementia research and people affected by dementia.
Design in Mental Health Awards
The Design in Mental Health Awards are for the design and build community in mental healthcare.
The Employee Benefits Awards celebrate the HR, reward and benefits community.
These highlights the benefits of learning, celebrating the learning achievements of adults.
Florence Nightingale Award for Excellence in Healthcare Data Analytics
This award recognises practitioners in applied healthcare data analytics who have gone the extra mile in delivering innovative improvements for the healthcare system.
The General Practice Awards have highlighted and showcased the very best examples of hard work, innovation and dedication in primary care.
These are the Association of Independent Health Healthcare Professionals awards to promote excellence in the UK Hearing Care profession.
The Great British Care Awards are a series of regional events throughout the UK and are a celebration of excellence across the care sector.
These awards recognise achievement in health promotion and community wellbeing initiatives.
The award categories incorporate facilities, technology, human resources, hospital management and transport.
Healthcare Science Awards (CSO)
These awards celebrate the achievements of the healthcare science workforce and the impact they have on patient outcomes.
Hospital Caterers Association National Awards
These awards recognise those caterers who are rising above the challenges and providing patients with wholesome, nutritious food that supports the healing work of the medical teams.
These awards recognise and celebrate the work of people professionals across the UK.
These awards celebrate creative and engaging HR projects.
The HR Excellence Awards celebrate excellence in HR and recognise organisations and individuals who are currently pushing the boundaries of people strategy.
The awards highlight examples of outstanding practice and innovation that help to safeguard and improve patient care.
The HSJ Patient Safety Awards help drive improvements in culture and quality across the NHS.
HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards
The HSJ Value Awards celebrate the teams and the people who are making things better in the NHS.
The awards help to share and celebrate digital teams, programmes, innovations and health tech suppliers that have made a difference through the year.
The awards are for those that have designed or delivered exceptional projects or services to patients and service users.
The award is open to all practitioners, researchers and academics working in the IL field within the United Kingdom.
The awards recognise an organisation’s commitment to excellent standards of health, safety and wellbeing management
These recognise the excellence of outstanding service desk teams and individuals and celebrates their success.
These awards celebrate businesses that set new standards of excellence within their industries
The awards recognise innovation and achievement in workplace learning.
These awards recognise the commitment, enthusiasm and passion for learning technologies across the world
Macmillan Professionals Excellence Awards
These highlight excellence across the UK and the impact of Macmillan professionals and teams.
These Awards are designed to reward the hard work, dedication, innovation and excellence of everyone working in the not-for-profit sector.
Medilink North of England Healthcare Business Awards
These recognise achievements of health sector organisations across the North.
These recognise those who have made an exceptional contribution to reducing mental health stigma.
Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
There are bronze, silver and gold awards for employer organisations that pledge, demonstrate or advocate support to defence and the armed forces community.
This award inspires employers to think about how changes to work can reduce the risks of harm to people.
NACC Awards (National Association of Care Catering)
These awards celebrate the contribution made by care catering staff.
National Apprenticeship Awards
The awards recognise and reward the achievements of exceptional apprentices, apprenticeship champions and apprenticeship employers.
These celebrate care in the long-term sector in private, public, not-for-profit providers of nursing and residential care.
National Clinical Impact Awards (NCIAs)
These aim to reward the consultants who contribute most to the delivery of safe and high-quality care.
These are awards in the recycling and resource management sector.
These celebrate the service user led projects within the NHS and private mental health, learning disability and autism services nationwide.
These awards highlight innovation, perseverance and incredible work across 23 categories covering a wide range of nursing specialities.
These recognise and honour the hard work carried out daily by thousands of healthcare support staff in roles vital to the provision of patient care.
Patient Experience Network National Awards
These recognise best practice in patient experience across all facets of health and social care in the UK.
These awards celebrate the best creative and digital communications within the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.
These innovation awards highlight the best in medicines optimisation and commissioning.
Quality in Care (QiC) Dermatology Awards
These awards recognise, reward and share good practice in dermatology for people with skin conditions and/or their families.
These reward and share the outstanding achievements in midwifery across the UK.
RCNi Nurse Awards recognises and celebrates nurse innovators.
These are for teams and individuals who are making a real difference to mental health services.
These are annual prizes for innovation in the design or application of surgical instruments or surgical techniques.
These are awards for individual, team or organisational contribution to Health & Safety.
RSPH Health and wellbeing Awards
This is an awards scheme for promoting health and wellbeing.
These aim to recognise and celebrate good practice in commissioning and providing social value.
These awards recognise the achievements of students and educators.
Sustainability Partnership Awards
These showcase the organisations and NHS Trusts that have proven to be striving to implement sustainable change.
The Creative Floor Healthcare Awards
These awards are for creative work and people in healthcare communications.
The Sun's Health Awards (Who Cares Wins)
These awards honour the people that keep the health service running.
The NHS unsung hero awards aim to thank the numerous non-medical NHS staff.
These awards celebrate the inspirational qualities of the UK’s seriously ill children and young people, along with those who go that extra mile to make a difference to their lives.