Welcome to the NICE Shared Learning Awards 2009

Established to celebrate your achievements in implementing NICE guidance, the Shared Learning Awards recognise and reward the very best of the examples entered on our Shared Learning Database.

Share your commitment to innovation and improving healthcare

The Shared Learning Awards give you an opportunity to share your experiences with colleagues in the NHS and the public health sector. This is your chance to tell us what worked, what didn’t work and what you learnt.

Shortlisted candidates will be given a platform to present their work to their peers at the NICE conference in December 2009. Along with the personal and professional satisfaction of winning an award, there is a £1000 cash prize up for grabs in each category to support implementation projects in your organisation. Shortlisted candidates will be offered free and discounted places at the NICE conference and there are also possible opportunities for further national and local press coverage for your organisation.

Highlight your hard work and expertise within your field

This year the submissions will be judged under three categories:

• Examples focused on implementing specific clinical guidance.
• Examples covering general implementation systems or approaches including commissioning, financial planning and audit and evaluation processes.
• Implementation examples of guidance promoting health and wellbeing.

This year's award winners

Congratulations to this year’s Shared Learning Awards Winners and a big thank you to all those who submitted their examples to the database:

Clinical Category Winner

• Saving sight the N.I.C.E way - University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Category Runners-Up

• Establishing a children's insulin pump service in Leeds - St James's University Hospital
• Can we improve the implementation of the NICE Guidelines for Depression and the Anxiety Disorders in Southwark? - Institute of Psychiatry

Health and wellbeing category Winner

• Putting NICE guidelines into practice managing a Pharmacy Needle and Syringe Programme - Addaction

Health and wellbeing category Runners-Up

• Finding the mission for commissioning - NHS North Yorkshire and York
• Promoting Physical Activity in the Built or Natural Environments Through Applying NICE Guidance - NHS Gloucestershire

General category Winner

• NICE & Knowledge: Developing an initiative to enable a robust cascade of NICE Guidance backed by documentary evidence of clinician's knowledge at appraisal. (update 2009) - South Staffordshire & Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

General category Runners-Up

• Monitoring of NICE Implementation - A Commissioner Perspective - NHS Sheffield
• Evidence-based training for Evidence-based Psychological Therapies - Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, University of Reading, Charlie Waller Memorial Trust

The winners each received a trophy and £1,000 to support implementation projects in their organisation.

Submit your example to the shared learning database and be considered for the 2010 awards.

• NICE Shared learning award 2008
• NICE shared learning award 2007

NICE have also previously sponsored a category in the HSJ awards around implementation of NICE guidance.