The Chief Allied Health Professions Officer Awards 2024 has opened nominations this week, providing a unique opportunity for registered AHPs to be recognised for their delivery of exceptional care.
The awards, awarded by NHS England, promote adoption and dissemination of good practice being delivered by nominated AHPs and grant teams a chance to review their work and the impact they have made to services.
Entries are open to all 14 Allied Health Professions and are for NHS or publicly-funded initiatives and projects.
'Unsung heroes'
Sue Johnson, professional officer for clinical imaging at the SoR, said: “Radiographers don't always recognise their role in public health. Many unsung heroes are working hard to reduce radiation doses, improve access for hard-to-reach populations, encourage the uptake of screening services, and manage our resource-intensive services sustainably.”
The 2024 award categories are:
- AHP Public Health Award
- Creative Provision of Placements Award
- AHP Digital Practice Award
- AHP Workforce Transformation Award
- AHP Innovation and Improvement within Integrated Care Systems Award
- AHP Research Impact Award
- Greener AHP Award
- AHP Leadership for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Award
- CAHPO Award
These awards celebrate AHPs who have delivered service improvements which benefit population health and wellbeing, and reduced health inequalities; have helped change the face of AHP practice-based learning; have led the way in digital developments; are demonstrating transformation through innovation; have focused on driving quality improvement; have contributed to research in health, social care and public health; have improved healthcare’s environmental impact; or have contributed to the EDI agenda.
Find out more about the awards categories here.
Clear and defined submissions
Nominations close at midnight on Monday, 3 June 2024.
AHPs interested in nominating themselves or others can write a 500-word submission, provide a three-minute audio file with accompanying slides, or create a one-page, 200-word poster.
These submissions should demonstrate relevance to the specific award’s impact priorities, should clearly define the reason for the initiative, should define aims and objectives, should clearly describe the implementation method with quantitative and qualitative data, providing details of lessons learned and plans for spread of adoption.
For more information about submission guidelines, click here.
To submit, click here.
CAHPO Awards 2024 which are now open for nominations until Monday 3 June.
Questions can be directed to [email protected].
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