Themes and programmes
Guy Rotherham Awards
The Improvement Foundation’s Guy Rotherham Awards celebrate quality improvement and better outcomes for patients.
The Guy Rotherham Awards mirror our vision of helping organisations realise the power of improvement science and offer a great opportunity to acknowledge the exceptional improvements that organisations and individuals are making across a range of services in primary and community care.
The awards celebrate the work of Guy Rotherham who died in 2003. Guy was instrumental in setting up the National Primary Care Development Team, which was incorporated by the Improvement Foundation in 2006.
The Guy Rotherham Awards are open to any NHS community-based team in the UK that is providing services to patients in primary care, including primary care trusts, general practices, community nursing teams, primary care consortia, or any other community-based NHS team. For more information please click here
Special new category - care homes
This year a new category of the Guy Rotherham Awards has been established to recognise the work of care homes to improve the care of their residents. For more information please click here
2009 - 5th annual Guy Rotherham Awards
Applications now being accepted
The Guy Rotherham Awards are now in their fifth year and applications are currently being accepted.
Please click here to access the award application form.
Prizes include:
Overall winner £3000
- Plus dinner and presentation at this year's NHS Alliance Conference in October 2009
and an award celebration at the Palace of Westminster
Highly commended prizes of £1000
- Plus dinner and presentation at this year's NHS Alliance Conference in October 2009
Winner of care home category £2000
- Plus dinner and presentation at this year's NHS Alliance Conference in October 2009
The closing date for the applications is 5pm, Friday 24 July 2009
Previous awards
The Guy Rotherham Awards began in 2005. Our first winner was Rhian Last who was instumental in implementing new clinics at the Oakley Medical Centre in Leeds.
In 2006, our award was shared by two successful entries: Dr Patrick Craig McFeely and his practice team, and Dr Neil Macey and his practice team. Both winners made impressive local improvements and we felt it appropriate to award them both.
The 2007 award went to St Benedict's Day Care Unit who had worked hard to improve the services they offer to patients. There were two additional highly commended applications: the Extended Primary Care Gynaecology Service in South Manchester, and Salford Perinatal Mental Health Project.
2008 winners
Winner
South Tyneside Intermediate Musculoskeletal Assessment and Treatment Service (STIMATS) won the Guy Rotherham Award for the excellent community-based musculoskeletal service it provides to the South Tyneside area. The service is implemented by a team of six clinicians, including physiotherapists, and is supported by South Tyneside Primary Care Trust. For further information on this entry, please click here to read the full case study.
Highly commended
The first highly commended award went to the B-clear Project Team for the B-clear Opportunistic Chlamydia Screening Service. The service is supported by Stoke-on-Trent PCT, North Staffordshire PCT, South Staffordshire PCT, Herefordshire PCT, Shropshire County PCT and Telford & Wrekin PCT. For further information on this entry, please click here to read the full case study.
Highly commended
The second highly commended award went to the Unique Care Team at St Lawrence Surgery in Worthing who implemented the Unique Care coordinated approach between health, social care and other services. The team is supported by West Sussex PCT and West Sussex Social Care. For further information on this entry, please click here to read the full case study.
Highly commended
The third highly commended award went to Bexley Care Trust for the development and implementation of a new Community Cardiology service for Bexley. The service is supported by North Bexley PBC (practice based commissioning) Consortium, Physiological Measurements Ltd (PML), and Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust. For further information on this entry, please click here to read the full case study.
We congratulate all winners and previous entries for their innovation, passion and efforts!