GP Enterprise Awards 2014

We know that there is a huge amount of innovation going on in general practice around the UK and, together with our partners the RCGP, we want to spread the word about your ideas.

There are six categories covering all aspects of primary care, and a key part of the judging process is to assess whether your scheme would be replicable in similar practices or circumstances.

Once again we are grateful to the MDU for supporting the awards, and enabling us to award cash prizes to all of our winners.

Each category winner will receive a cheque for £1,000 and a commemorative plaque for their surgery. We will then ask the readers of GP magazine and GPonline.com to vote for their overall favourite, who will win a further £4,000 and the MDU Enterprise Award. The overall winner will be presented with their prize at the RCGP’s annual awards day in November 2014.

How to enter

Please use our online entry form to submit your entry. All we need is your contact details and a written submission of no more than 500 words, explaining what you did, why you did it, and what you achieved. If we need further information we will be in contact.

You can submit one scheme to any number of relevant categories. If you want to submit more than one scheme, please use a separate form for each entry.

Entry to the Enterprise Awards 2014 is now closed.

If you have any queries please email GPawards@haymarket.com.

The 2014 categories
Outstanding Practice Team Prize £1,000	For a high quality practice that has shown exemplary teamwork to implement change or meet a new challenge. Please highlight the work of different team members, and links with outside agencies, where appropriate.
Innovative Clinical Care Prize £1,000	This award recognises innovation in the main disease areas common within the general population, where a GP or practice team has demonstrably improved patient care as a direct result of changes to clinical practice or their practice systems.
Caring for Vulnerable Groups Prize £1,000	This award aims to highlight innovation by a GP or practice team to meet the needs of a specific group of vulnerable patients, for example the elderly, homeless, drug misusers, or those with physical or learning disabilities.
Best use of Media and Technology Prize £1,000	For an innovative GP or practice team that can demonstrate how they have utilised new media and the internet, or IT in general, to improve any aspect of patient care or practice services.
Improving Quality and Productivity Prize £1,000	For a practice team, group of surgeries, or CCG, that has raised quality and/or productivity. They should be able to demonstrate efficiencies in areas such as prescribing or unplanned admissions.
RCGP First5 Award Prize £1,000	For an individual GP who, in their first five years since passing the MRCGP exam, can demonstrate how they have made a positive and innovative impact on the NHS, by working to improve clinical care, patient services or healthcare systems.
The MDU Enterprise Award Prize £4,000	We ask the readers of GP magazine to vote for an overall winner from the successful entrants in the six categories. The award will be presented at the RCGP’s annual awards ceremony in London. The winning practice will receive £4,000 and you will be entered into a prize draw for a fantastic iPad mini. The closing date is 3 March 2014.

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