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Are you the next Crick or Watson? Bupa Foundation awards gives £70,000 for excellence in healthcare

26 June 2007

The search is on to find the best new researcher – or the most startling medical innovation – in the UK.

The Bupa Foundation is calling for entries for this year’s Bupa Foundation awards, which will give £70,000 in recognition of exceptional achievement in healthcare and research.

The Bupa Foundation is an independent charitable organisation that funds medical research and since 1979 it has awarded grants in excess of £21 million to medical research and healthcare initiatives across a broad range of disciplines from surgery to occupational health.

The Bupa Foundation Awards promote excellence in seven key categories, including:

• Care Award – for excellence in the development of care for older people
• Research Award – for the best emerging medical researcher in the UK
• Epidemiology Award – for excellence in the study of chronic disease
• Clinical Excellence Award – for work that demonstrates an improved clinical outcome for patients
• Health at Work Award - for excellence in occupational medicine
• Communication Award – for effective communication between health care professionals and patients
• Patient Safety – for outstanding contribution to patient safety – new for 2007

Dr Opinder Sahota, a Bupa Foundation award winner last year for his work to reduce the number of bedside falls in hospitals, said: "Winning this award has been wonderful recognition for the work we have been doing. It has helped provide a platform for further research into the prevention of falls of older people in hospital and provided a great opportunity to build on the successes we’ve already achieved."

Dr Andrew Vallance-Owen, Vice-Chairman of the Bupa Foundation, said: "Every year the standard of entries is extremely high and we are hoping to once again encourage a large number of researchers and health professionals to put forward their projects for recognition in 2007. Although medical research projects often start from small beginnings they can lead to real improvements in medicine and care."

Applications should have been received by 2 July 2007. All category winners are invited to join a distinguished panel of judges at the Bupa Foundation Awards Dinner at Lincoln’s Inn in London, on 14 November 2007.

Find out more about the Bupa Foundation awards

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