2023 Award
Bladder & Bowel UK Clinical Excellence Award
The 2023 Bladder & Bowel UK Clinical Excellence Award is now closed for submissions.
Thank you to all who entered. Judging takes place September-November and awards will be presented in December.
If you have any questions regarding your application, please email marketing@disabledliving.co.uk.
What is the award?
The Bladder & Bowel UK Clinical Excellence Award is a celebration of outstanding bladder and/or bowel health care.
The award rewards the exceptional contribution of an individual, team or project working in the field of bladder and/or bowel health within the NHS or independent sector, by celebrating the demonstrable positive impact they have made to their patients or clients or to the public.
Entrants may have used leadership, collaboration, innovation and/or novel approaches to engagement to improve access to care, health outcomes or quality of life for the public generally or to service users and their families.
The Bladder & Bowel UK Clinical Excellence Award is a platform for honouring success and sharing outstanding practice. The award will be judged by experts and clinicians who specialise in bladder and/or bowel care. We are delighted that this year the panel will be led by Karen Logan OBE.
2022 Clinical Excellence Award winner
Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale’s Community Bladder and Bowel Service won the Bladder & Bowel UK Clinical Excellence Award for the Right Pad Right Person Project.
June Rogers MBE, lead judge of the Bladder & Bowel UK Clinical Excellence Award 2022, said: “The winning entry made a substantial contribution to changing practice, forging a robust multi-agency collaboration and developing a proactive approach to prevention and treatment. This not only resulted in improvement in patient care and staff knowledge, but also a reduction of continence related comorbidities and the need for visits. A very worthy winner!”
The team received a media pack and the opportunity to present at Bladder & Bowel UK’s 2023 professional training symposia, taking place on 23rd March at Bolton Arena, and 27th September at Coventry Building Society Arena.
Applications
Applications are open to professionals including nurses, midwives, allied healthcare professionals, doctors and researchers. They may be working with any client group or people of any age.
Applications from individuals or teams are welcome as are nominations of an individual or team. We encourage interested applicants or nominating parties to get in touch with questions regarding eligibility.
The application portal is accessed via the ‘Apply Now’ button above and will be available until 31st August 2023.
Submissions for the 2023 awards are now closed.
Awards
The winner(s) will receive a cheque for £500 and will give a presentation of their work at one of the Bladder & Bowel UK symposia for professionals working in the continence field, taking place in 2024. The award will be presented in December 2023.
Key dates
The application portal is accessed via the button above and will be available until 31st August 2023.
If you have any questions regarding your application, please email marketing@disabledliving.co.uk.