The Health and Social Care Awards exist to highlight and celebrate innovation and
excellence in the provision of frontline health and social care. Now in its
7th year, these Awards recognise and encourage working together across
organisations and professions, with service users and local populations.
They acknowledge the people in the NHS, social services, the voluntary, charity and
independent sectors who are passionate in finding new and innovative ways of
working and who continue to thrive in their environments to deliver the best
possible level of care to their local population.
The Health and Social Care Awards are run at both a regional and national level.
This gives the greatest opportunity for applicants to showcase their work and gain
recognition for their achievements.
They are the flagship Awards for the Department of Health and are run in
partnership with the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. The ten
Strategic Health Authorities and Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP)
are regional strategic partners and have supported this Awards Programme at
regional level.
The regional winners will have the opportunity to compete at national
level through a second-tier judging process. The national finalists will be
announced at the national ceremony, which will be held at Wembley Stadium on
1st July 2008. This, the 60th anniversary of the NHS, is a particularly important year
as we celebrate the founding of this national system of care which has had an
enormous impact on both the social wellbeing and health of England’s population.
We are very pleased to coincide this Awards Programme with the week of the 60th
Anniversary, as it highlights the very best of what the service has to offer.
