National Clinical Impact Awards
As you may already know, from this year the National Clinical Excellence Awards have changed to National Clinical Impact Awards. There are some major changes to the process too. Although there are increased total numbers of awards (600), the financial value of awards has reduced to between £20,000 and £40,000 a year, and are non-pensionable. There are three levels of National Award: N1 (lowest), N2 and N3 (highest) and they will be for 5 years in duration. It is anticipated there will be 330 at N1, 200 at N2 and 70 at N3 in England, with 37 awards in Wales. You do not apply for a specific award; successful awards (at each level) will be determined solely by the score your application achieves.
Whilst the acknowledgement of provision of care ‘over and above the usual’ remains, the domains have changed to Service Delivery & Development, Leadership, Education, Innovation & Research and Other contributions.
Applications can be submitted to a National Nominating Organisation (NNO) for support. Applicants choose which NNO to approach. The NNOs for our specialty are the Association of Anaesthetists and the Royal College of Anaesthetists. At the end of the process you can only choose one NNO to support you. If you approach both organisations, we commit to sharing with you simultaneously our respective rankings, so that you can choose which to use.
The 2022 round opens on Wednesday 27 April and will close at 17:00 on Wednesday 22 June 2022, but please start preparing for your award now, including identifying a citation writer. The Association must receive your application by 09:00 on Tuesday 17 May 2022 for consideration of support by submitting it to [email protected].
This process is new for everyone, and we will provide as much assistance as we can. You may be interested in a webinar run by the Royal College of Surgeons on Wednesday 20 April between 17:00 and 18:00. The speakers are Dr Stuart Dollow, Chair of the Advisory Committee on Clinical Impact Awards (ACCIA), and Professor Kevin Davies, Medical Director for ACCIA, with a Q&A session afterwards. The webinar booking link has gone live. We will run further events and help if required.
The leads for our two NNOs are William Fawcett (Vice President, Association of Anaesthetists) and William Harrop-Griffiths (Vice President, Royal College of Anaesthetists).
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