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Nominations for the Black Healthcare Awards 2024 are now open and will close on Friday 31st May 2024. Judging will take place by our expert panel and the shortlist will be announced in early June.
We would like to take this opportunity to say thank to everyone in advance for submitting their nomination.
If you are not shortlisted this time, please look out for the opening in 2025.
The awards focus on Black people who are descendants of the Caribbean or African and diaspora. The Healthcare Awards recognise individuals who have established themselves as outstanding within their work. These individuals can be nominated by colleagues who recognise their work, or they can be self-nominating individuals.
We want our nominations to come from across the different sectors in which they practice or study. These will include Hospital, Primary Care, Community (including prison, army etc) services from across the Private, Public and Voluntary sector
The roles will include those who work across all levels of their profession and include medical, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy and allied professionals.
Nominees must be registered professionals or students registered on programmes related to the healthcare professions
We are looking for outstanding doctors in a training grade who can showcase quality care to impact users accessing their services. The doctor works well across teams and demonstrates commitment to clinical excellence and advocacy to deliver the best care to users.
This award is to recognise a doctor who is has made a difference in their department or practice area. The individual is consistently delivering high quality clinical care that embodies innovation, advocacy and learning opportunities for the wider team to improve overall care for patients.
This award recognises a consultant who can provide clear evidence of clinical excellence, which goes over and above their role description to deliver continuous improvement based upon high-quality research, policy change or clinical care.
This award recognises outstanding standards and innovative practices across patient care and dental services. The dentist demonstrates the ability to provide quality care and inclusive treatments and education for all patients.
This award celebrates those who provide exceptional inclusive preventive dental care, treatment and patient education to avoid gum disease especially in areas of deprivation
This award recognises the allied health professional that have gone the extra mile to demonstrate impact they have made in their role through care delivery, service improvement and or innovation or research to enhance the care given to users of their services.
Dietitians & Nutritionists
Occupational therapists
Operating department practitioners
Orthoptists
Osteopaths
Paramedics
Physicians Associates
Physiotherapists
Podiatrists
Prosthetists and orthotists
Radiographers
Speech and language therapists
This category recognises a healthcare professional that had led a team to make significant improvements to how users are cared, advocated for and treated in emergency units.
This award seeks to recognise individual pharmacists working in either community or hospital services who have made an outstanding contribution to delivering optimal care, innovation or those that have made an impact in care from their research.
The sickle cell nurse of the year award provides evidence of innovation, leadership, commitment, drive and energy to enhance care to individuals living with sickle cell disease and their families.
This award is looking for the nurse of the year who demonstrates leadership, role modelling and inspirational practice in times of challenge whilst improving the quality of care for users of their services. This nurse nominee can work across any grade of mental health, adult, children’s and disability nursing.
This award recognises advanced or specialist nurses who have been instrumental in delivering positive change in their field of practice for the benefit of their patients and or colleagues. This individual uses their initiative is innovative and advocates for exceptional and comprehensive care for patients and or colleagues.
This award recognises a lead midwife whose initiative, creative and innovative approach has created improved user care for women, birthing people and their families from diverse backgrounds.
We are looking for a Healthcare professional (GP, Practice Nurse, Community Nurse, District Nurse, Health Visitor or a member of the Nursing team) who is making an outstanding contribution to improve the primary care experiences for users across their community. This individual is driven and motivated to lead innovation and creativity to enhance the lives of others.
This award recognises a medical or nurse consultant or specialist who can provide clear evidence of clinical excellence, which goes over and above their role description to deliver continuous improvement based upon high-quality research, policy change or clinical care.
We are looking for an inspirational, innovative and creative healthcare worker who demonstrates commitment to providing high standards in their delivery of care to improve the user experience. This individual demonstrates the ability to think and seek support beyond the scope of their role to innovate and create improved opportunities for patients.
This award recognises an individual who has enabled their team or organisation to better serve patients and public utilising digital technology. There is evidence of improved healthcare engagement and outcomes through a transformational technology project/programme they have led on such as IT systems, mobile phone applications, virtual consultation, etc.
This award recognises a medical or nurse consultant or specialist who can provide clear evidence of clinical excellence, which goes over and above their role description to deliver continuous improvement based upon high-quality research, policy change or clinical care.
This award recognises a medical consultant or specialist who can provide clear evidence of clinical excellence, which goes over and above their role description to deliver continuous improvement based upon high-quality research, policy change or clinical care.
Open to all UK students across healthcare related programmes. We are looking for evidence of enthusiasm, a keen desire to learn beyond the textbook to reach their potential
This award recognises a oncology healthcare professional who can provide clear evidence of clinical excellence, which goes over and above their role description to deliver continuous improvement based upon high-quality research, policy change or clinical care.is awa
This award recognises a Respiratory healthcare professional who can provide clear evidence of clinical excellence, which goes over and above their role description to deliver continuous improvement based upon high-quality research, policy change or clinical care.
This award will honour those who have given their life’s career to healthcare to enable Improved services and outcomes for those they provide care for.
This award recognises Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (or specialist in this area of practice) who can demonstrate excellence and passion in their contributions to practice, research or policy. The work they do can go over and above their role description within or outside of the clinical setting to deliver improvements.
This Award recognises public health care professional devoted to making positive changes. They could be health care educators, consultants, researchers or public health practitioners, leading or delivering programmes of work that are making a significant impact on people’s health and wellbeing.