Awards for Quality in EM

National Clinical Impact Awards

The application window for the 2023 National Clinical Impact Awards is open from 3 March 2023 – 05 May 2023.

From March 2023, National Clinical Impact Awards (NCIA) scheme applications will no longer include rankings and citations from national nominating organisations. Applicants will now be able to seek guidance from any number of relevant membership organisations (MOs) they wish to approach.

The national Clinical Impact Awards scheme (previously known as the national Clinical Excellence Awards) has been reformed in order to broaden access to the scheme, make the application process fairer and more inclusive, and ensure the scheme rewards and incentivises excellence across a broader range of activity and behaviours. The new scheme is fairer and has a more inclusive application process designed to fully reflect the diversity of the consultant population in the NHS. Further information on the reforms can be found in the joint DHSC and Welsh Government consultation response.

We wish all eligible consultants the best of luck with their award applications, we know you are brilliant!

Further information

Access the application portal (registered users only)
Advice for National Clinical Impact Awards Applications (2023)
Resources for applicants and employers (2023)
New ACCIA process for awards scheme applications (2023)

National Clinical Impact Awards 2022

You can now view the outcome of your application in the ‘My awards’ section of the ACCIA portal. This will show:

whether your application was successful or unsuccessful
if successful, the level of your award

You’ll also be able to:

download your tailored outcome letter from the portal
view your scores for each domain

The Advisory Committee on Clinical Impact Awards (ACCIA) will notify you by email when the letters are available to view.

ACCIA will inform your employer of the outcome of your application once you have been notified that your letter is available to view.

You should read the information below that is applicable to your personal circumstances. If you have any questions, email accia@dhsc.gov.uk.

For further information please see: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/outcome-of-the-national-clinical-impact-awards-2022

International Awards

+ Young Investigator Award

One of the principle remits of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) is to advance education and research in Emergency Medicine. Its remit includes research, publications and the administration of academic awards and prizes. The RCEM Clinical Studies Group was formed by the Research & Publications Committee in 2014 and makes annual awards to recognise outstanding contributions of RCEM Members and Fellows to research in Emergency Medicine.

Since its inception in 2006, the NIHR has significantly increased the scale of clinical research in the NHS, particularly through the Clinical Research Network. The enthusiastic engagement of NHS clinicians is an essential condition for sustaining and building on this success, particularly given the many competing demands on clinician time and resources. These co-branded awards will recognise outstanding contributions of NHS consultants and trainees in the conduct of clinical research in the field of Emergency Medicine.

The winner(s) of the Young Investigator award will also be eligible for a modest financial award, which must be invested in the award holder’s future research. The award winners and outstanding contributors will be asked to present a summary of their contributions to research at the Emergency Medicine Research Engagement Day. Applicants will be required to confirm that they are available to attend and make a short presentation.

Eligibility

The award is open to both junior doctors who are pursuing a career in Emergency Medicine and consultants in Emergency Medicine who are within 5 years of obtaining their Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT). For junior doctors who do not currently hold a National Training Number in Emergency Medicine, the panel will look for evidence of commitment to pursuing a career in the specialty.

Criteria

The award will be made based on the following criteria:

Candidates should show evidence of an interest in becoming active in Emergency Medicine research. A record of achieving peer reviewed publications and a track record of designing and delivering research in Emergency Medicine is desirable but not essential.
The application must include a proposal for a research project to be undertaken. The candidate must show a clear commitment to completing that research and show evidence that it is feasible and deliverable. Desirable criteria include evidence of strong mentorship and institutional support, a proposal that is relevant to Emergency Medicine, the potential for the award to develop the academic career of the individual and to lead on to further funding, the methodological rigour demonstrated in the written proposal and oral presentation, and evidence of structured and realistic costings that represent value for money to RCEM.

Awards will be made at the discretion of the judging panel.

Applications

Applications for this award will open later in the year. Information on how to apply will be published here in due course. If you have any questions in the meantime, please email events@rcem.ac.uk.

+ Principal Investigator of the Year

The winner(s) will also be eligible for a modest financial award, which must be invested in the award holder’s future research. The award winners and outstanding contributors will be asked to present a summary of their contributions to research at the Emergency Medicine Research Engagement Day. Applicants will be required to confirm that they are available to attend and make a short presentation.

Eligibility

Applicants must be Members or Fellows of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. The awards are designed to recognise the contribution of research active clinicians rather than those who are already career clinical academics. Therefore, Members and Fellows who hold a substantive academic university appointment or an externally funded academic fellowship will not be eligible for this award.

Criteria

The award will be made based on the candidate’s contribution to Emergency Medicine research in the United Kingdom over the previous 12 months, including:

An outstanding contribution to the design, delivery, conduct and/or dissemination of research
An outstanding contribution to building research capacity in the specialty.

Applications

Applications for this award will open later in the year. Information on how to apply will be published here in due course. If you have any questions in the meantime, please email events@rcem.ac.uk.

+ Alison Gourdie Memorial Fund

A research grant of up to £1,250 is available to Junior Doctors, Consultants within five years of appointment and members of professions involved in the provision of emergency medical care.

Or alternatively contact:
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine
Octavia House, 54 Ayres Street, London SE1 1EU.

Tel: 020 7404 1999

+ Maurice Ellis Award

The Maurice Ellis Award recognises his pioneering work in the field of Emergency Medicine. It may be awarded every two years and presented at an appropriate event in the Royal College of Emergency Medicine calendar.

An award will next be made in 2018. Please read the nomination criteria for more information

+ William Rutherford International Award

This award by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) recognises the inspiring work of one of the specialty’s ‘founding fathers’, William Rutherford. William Rutherford was a pioneer of the specialty of Emergency Medicine but his dedication to service also took him to work as a doctor in rural India for 20 years. It was after his return from there, in 1967, that he became surgeon in charge of the Accident & Emergency Department of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, where he worked until his retirement in 1985.

William died in December 2007 when he was in his 80s. The RCEM decided to establish an award to commemorate his life and his work, particularly recognising his work in troubled times and in areas of deprivation.

The William Rutherford International Award is made annually to an individual that has demonstrated evidence of excellence in emergency care or humanitarian activities within low- and/ or middle-income countries or settings.

The award will consist of an invitation to the recipient, as well as a collaborator of the recipients, from a low- and/ or middle-income country or setting, to co-present their work at a national RCEM conference. The Global Emergency Medicine (GEM) Committee has the responsibility for proposing the recipient to Council and liaising with the recipient.

The recipient will choose the collaborator and present her/ his details to the GEM committee for approval. The recipient and collaborator would be provided with a budget from which conference registration, accommodation and travel costs to the UK can be reimbursed.

Nominations are now open for the 2022 award and will close at 5pm on 17 June 2023.

Download the William Rutherford International Award nomination form.

Criteria for this award:

The recipient should demonstrate evidence of excellence in any of the following activities within low- and/ or middle-income countries or settings:

Establishing of, contributing to, leading, and/ or supporting of existing or new emergency care or humanitarian programmes, services and/ or systems;
building of, contributing to, and/ or supporting of emergency care or humanitarian capacity;
and/ or establishing of, contributing to, leading and/ or supporting of educational and/ or training activities in emergency care or humanitarian settings
The recipient should not have already received a similar award from another organisation, unless it is felt by the proposer that by receiving this award it would help to publicise and further expand or improve the humanitarian work of the recipient.

Potential candidates can be nominated by Fellows or Members of the RCEM. The nominee must also be a Fellow or Member of the RCEM.

+ Research Awards & Fellowships

Research Awards and competitions

Fellowships

Professorships