Our Awards
The Undergraduate Palliative Medicine Essay
Open to all UK and Ireland medical undergraduates who are students by the set closing date; the Undergraduate Palliative Medicine Essay invites them to craft a compelling essay on a specified subject, not exceeding 2000 words.
Winners receive a first prize of £250 and a second prize of £100.
Applications for the 2026 Undergraduate Essay Prize will open later in the year. Please keep checking back for details.
The Marlow Prize
The Marlow Prize
The Marlow Prize is in memory of a Palliative Medicine Consultant with a keen interest in research and contributed to the SCE who died in 2020.
The prize winner is chosen from the abstracts submitted to the Palliative Care Congress. The winner of this prize will have their full paper published in BMJSPC and their prize presented at the Palliative Care Congress.
West Midlands Palliative Care Prize for Quality Improvement
West Midlands Palliative Care Prize for Quality Improvement
Rewarding excellence in Quality Improvement. £250 for the best Quality Improvement abstract, awarded at the Palliative Care Congress.
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APM Award Winners.
Rebecca Cushing for being 1st prize winner of the Undergraduate Essay Prize 2025, with their essay based around the the theme of “With the UK contemplating Assisted Dying legislation, and an increasing tendency to treat what may once have been felt to be irreversible, is there still a role for ‘allowing natural death?”
Congratulations Rebecca!
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Aaliyah Farah for being runner up winner of the Undergraduate Essay Prize 2025, with their essay based around the the theme of “With the UK contemplating Assisted Dying legislation, and an increasing tendency to treat what may once have been felt to be irreversible, is there still a role for ‘allowing natural death?”
Congratulations Aaliyah!
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Alexander Collins for being joint 1st prize winner of the Undergraduate Essay Prize 2024, with their essay based around the the theme of “Palliative medicine can be called the ‘heaven for the few’: how can we improve access to good palliative care?”
Congratulations Alexander!
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Olivia Rowe for being joint 1st prize winner of the Undergraduate Essay Prize 2024, with their essay based around the the theme of “Palliative medicine can be called the ‘heaven for the few’: how can we improve access to good palliative care?”
Congratulations Olivia!
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Maria Izmirlieva for being 2nd place prize winner of the Undergraduate Essay Prize 2024, with their essay based around the the theme of “Palliative medicine can be called the ‘heaven for the few’: how can we improve access to good palliative care?”
Congratulations Maria!
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Lily Johnson for winning the Undergraduate Essay Prize Entry 2022: “Ignorance is bliss?: With attention to ethical theories, discuss the role of truth-telling within good palliative care.
Congratulations Lily!
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Rachel Picard for joint 2nd place for the Undergraduate Essay Prize Entry 2022 – “Ignorance is bliss?”: With attention to ethical theories, discuss the role of truth-telling within good palliative care.
Congratulations Rachel!
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Jessica McKeever for joint 2nd place for the Undergraduate Essay Prize Entry 2022 – “Ignorance is bliss?”: With attention to ethical theories, discuss the role of truth-telling within good palliative care.
Congratulations Jessica!
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Milly Payne for winning the Undergraduate Audit and Quality Improvement Prize 2021. “Oral Mucositis in Allogenic Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant: Comparing current preventative practice to recent guidelines.”
Congratulations Milly!
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