Looking For Excellence - NHS Alliance Launches Acorn Awards 2009

Main Category: Public Health
Article Date: 09 Jun 2009 - 5:00 PDT

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Entries are invited for the 2009 NHS Alliance Acorn Awards. This year, the awards, which recognise excellence in primary care, have nine categories. Since last year, the NHS Alliance introduced a new category, Pharmaceutical Services Commissioning, which has been designed to showcase Primary Care Trusts which are excelling at world class commissioning of pharmaceutical services.

This year's categories are:

- Service Redesign/Improvement
- Clinical Engagement
- Public/Patient Involvement
- Public Health
- Integrated and Complementary Healthcare
- Clinical Governance
- Responsiveness in General Practice
- Practice Based Commissioning
- Pharmaceutical Services Commissioning

NHS Alliance Chairman Dr Michael Dixon said: "We want to celebrate the success of those going the extra mile to bring excellence to primary care services. There are people up and down the country achieving really remarkable things. We want them to share their example of best practice and commemorate their achievements."

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1. The NHS Alliance is a collaboration of clinicians, managers and board members who put patients first. It is the independent body that represents NHS primary care. Values based, it is the only organisation that brings together PCTs with GP practices, clinicians with managers and Board members, and NHS primary care with its patients.

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NHS Alliance