The PatientsVoices@RCoA Award recognises innovative projects and initiatives which have made a tangible improvement to patients’ experience of anaesthesia and perioperative care. The award is designed and managed by members of PatientsVoices@RCoA, a group of diverse people who support, advise and influence the College by providing patients’ perspectives on its activities.

Award criteria

Applications will be judged based on how well a project meets the criteria below.

Aims and objectives

  • Describe the problem that the initiative aimed to address.
  • Describe the impact or improvement which you anticipated.

Involvement and partnership

  • Describe how you involved patients at different stages of the initiative.
  • Describe any other stakeholders you involved in the design and delivery the initiative.

Communication and dissemination

  • Describe how patients and other stakeholders have been kept informed throughout the life of the project.
  • Describe how best practice and learning from the initiative were shared/will be shared within your organisation and other NHS organisations.

Impact and evaluation

  • Explain how the initiative has made a difference to patients’ experience of anaesthesia and/or perioperative care.
  • Provide qualitative and/or quantitative evidence of the impact of the initiative on patients.

Eligibility

The award is open to individual anaesthetists, groups of anaesthetists, anaesthetic teams or anaesthetic departments.

Prizes and award ceremony

A scoring system based on the above criteria will be used to identify the top three scoring projects which will form the shortlist. The shortlisted entries will be notified in February 2025.

The three shortlisted projects will be eligible for gold, silver and bronze based on how well they score against the criteria. Winners of each award will be announced at the College's Annual Dinner to be held on 21 May 2025 as part of the Anaesthesia 2025 conference in Belfast. Up to two award recipients for each shortlisted entry will be invited to attend the Award Dinner for free and will be offered hotel accommodation for one night by the College. All representatives of the shortlisted projects will be offered a 20% discount on the Anaesthesia 2025 delegate fee.

Please note that award recipients will need to arrange and pay for their own travel to the dinner.

How to apply and deadline for application

  • Applications must be submitted through the online portal (form below).
  • Applications submitted via email or post will not be considered.
  • Deadline for applications for the 2025 awards is midnight on 17 November 2024.

If you have any questions about the award or would like to discuss whether your project is eligible or not please email patientsvoices@rcoa.ac.uk.  

Contact details

Name and address of individual to whom all correspondence about the award should be addressed.

Is the initiative still live?

Award criteria

Aims and objectives

Involvement and partnership

Communication and dissemination

Impact and evaluation

Supporting documentation
Please use this section to submit any supporting materials and documentation to support your entry, but ensure that it does not contain any personal/identifiable patient information.

Maximum 6 files.
256 MB limit.
Allowed types: pdf, doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsx.

Award recipient(s)

Please provide the details of up to two award recipient(s).

NOTE: these are the individuals who will be invited to attend the award ceremony if the entry is shortlisted. Award recipient(s) should be individuals who have been involved in the design and delivery of the project.

Award recipient 1

Award recipient 2

Terms and conditions

The information you have supplied in this form will be shared with members of PatientsVoices@RCoA and members of the RCoA Nominations Committee for the purpose of shortlisting and judging. Please make sure that your entry does not include any patients’ personal or identifiable information.

Entries and supporting documentation will be used for marketing and advertising of the award and to support the College communications in announcing the winners. These may involve the use of entries and images of award recipients in print materials, newsletters, blogs, articles and social media posts.

Award recipient(s) for shortlisted entries will be offered a free place at the award dinner and one night accommodation. However, travel to the dinner will need to be covered by the award recipient(s).

Confirmation

Data Protection Statement

The Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) is fully committed to the principles of data protection, as set out in the Data Protection Act 2018 (C.12). The RCoA relies on legitimate interests as the lawful basis for processing of personal data. We process and maintain personal data about you so that we can manage your membership, provide you with appropriate products and services and share information with you about RCoA activities.

We will only use your information for the purposes as described and will not pass on your details to other third parties unless you have given us consent to do so.

We use appropriate organisational and technical measures to ensure that your data are secure and protected from loss, misuse and unauthorised access or alteration.

You have the right to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies in your information corrected. If you have any questions about data protection or require further information, please email dpo@rcoa.ac.uk

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