The Advancing Healthcare Awards 2025 are open to healthcare scientists, Clinical Research Practitioners (CRPs) and those working alongside them across the UK. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of this event, these awards are a fantastic opportunity for colleagues to shine a spotlight on some of the fantastic work that they, their teams or their departments have been doing.

These awards are more than just accolades; they are a testament to the invaluable contributions that healthcare scientists, allied health professional and those working alongside them make to patient care. By submitting an entry, you are not only celebrating achievements but also helping to raise awareness of the vital role they play in transforming patient care, driving innovation, and shaping the future of health services.

The Academy for Healthcare Science are proud to have two awards at the Advancing Healthcare Awards UK 2025.

The lightbulb moment: The award for driving forward patient safety

What is your lightbulb moment? This award aims to attract entries and nominations from healthcare scientists, clinical research practitioners and life science industry representatives who had a ‘lightbulb moment’, those who can describe how they brought into play innovative approaches to long-standing problems or found unconventional solutions to unexpected challenges, or through registration and regulation, they can show how this enhanced patient safety and how it inspired others? It is open to healthcare scientists, CRPs and LSI representatives working in any setting in the UK.

                My inspiration: The AHCS award for the most inspiring leader.

Who is your inspiration? We are inviting you to nominate a healthcare science leader who has been an inspiration to you at any stage of your career. To make a nomination you must be a registrant on a part of the AHCS register, or on one of our directories, or who has successfully been through equivalence, or who is an associate or fellow of the Academy for Health Care Science.

We encourage you to reflect on the inspiring stories around you. Do you know someone who has had a “lightbulb moment” that revolutionised the way you work or solved a longstanding problem? Or a leader whose vision and guidance have positively impacted you or your team? Now is the time to share their stories with a wider audience!

The entry process is simple. Please head over to the AHAwards website where the awards, entry guidance and entry forms are available.

Entries close: Friday 14th February 2025