The Advisory Committee for the Clinical Excellence Awards (ACCEA) are aware of the increasing impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on all NHS staff. The decision has been made to suspend the 2020 National Clinical Excellence Awards competition. They do not expect clinicians to prepare applications, nor employers to sign them off at the expense of clinical priorities.
Based on this ongoing assessment, they will implement their contingency and mitigation plans for new applications and will also ensure that those whose awards expire in April 2021 are not disadvantaged by being unable to submit a renewal application. Any applications already drafted will be saved.
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The competition is open to all members of the APM. Entries should be no more than 3000 words, including any graphs, diagrams, tables etc. and should be in the standard journal format of abstract, introduction, methods, results and discussions.
Prize £500
The Undergraduate Palliative Medicine Essay is open to all UK and Ireland medical undergraduates who are students as of the set closing date. Entrants are invited to produce an essay on a specified subject that does not exceed 2000 words.
Submissions are collected by the APM Secretariat and submitted to the judges anonymously. The identity of the entrants will only be disclosed to the judges after they have considered the essays.
First prize is £250 and second prize is £100
The competition is open to all members of the APM. Entries should be no more than 3000 words, including any graphs, diagrams, tables etc. and should be in the standard journal format of abstract, introduction, methods, results and discussions.
Prize £500
The Association for Palliative Medicine (APM) has established a clinical audit prize. Entrants are invited to submit a report of a clinical audit to which they have made a significant contribution. The audit may be a completed cycle or a preliminary standard setting investigation. It should comprise a clinical audit, service evaluation or quality improvement project.
The APM wishes to encourage medical student undergraduates to become actively involved in clinical governance. The APM believes that doctors of all grades should take a lead role in examining practice and that such a prize will enhance the status of such endeavours and emphasise their importance.
Prize Letter of commendation from the Chairs of the Professional Standards and Trainees committees.
