The Chief Allied Health Professions Officer Awards 2024 will take place on Thursday 10 October 2024

View our frequently asked questions for further information about the awards.

Creative Provision of Placements Award 2024 – awarded by the Council of Deans of Health

Nominations are welcomed from AHP leaders, educators and/or students from health and social care or education (teams or individuals) who have helped change the face of AHP practice-based learning in the context of the challenges generated by the pandemic. This should include initiatives that have increased the number of practice-based learning opportunities and will sustain this increase whilst maintaining or improving quality.

2024 shortlist:

1. CPFT AHP Practice Education Team, AHP Practice Education Leads, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust
2. SAHP Practice Placements Team consisting of: Fran Quinn-Thomas, Teresa Rushton, Claire Stapleton, Caroline Nichol, Helen Edwards, Megan Pinches, Sam Patterson, Alex Wilkinson, Placement provision and support – Lecturers and Senior Lecturers, Keele University
3. UHB Therapies Practice Placement Team and Clinical teams: Health Care for Older People at Good Hope Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Short Stay at Good Hope Hospital, Medical Inpatients at Solihull Hospital, Trauma and Orthopaedics at Solihull Hospital
4. Research Delivery, Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, MPFT
5. Helen McAlinney, SY ICB AHP Workforce Programme Manager, South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

AHP Public Health Award 2024 – awarded by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities

This award recognises an AHP team or individual who has delivered service improvements which benefit population health and wellbeing and/or reduced health inequalities. Nominations are welcome from AHPs and their teams including support workers and students.

2024 shortlist:

1. South Tees Falls Team, Specialist Falls team consisting Physios, Occupational Therapists and Support Workers, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
2. CPFT Arts Therapies Service, Music Therapists, Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation Trust
3. Ealing SLT Bilingual Co-Worker Team, SLTs & Bilingual Co-Workers, Ealing Community Partners

AHP Digital Practice Award 2024 – awarded by NHS England

Nominations are welcome from AHPs who have led the way in digital developments.  They need to be able to demonstrate innovation in information and communication technologies and how the innovation, project or initiative impacts in one or more of the impact areas, commitments or priorities in AHPs Deliver.

2024 shortlist:

1. Davinia Rodgers, Clinical Learning Environment Lead, and Emma Melton, Legacy Support Mentor, Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS
2. Runa Park, Art Psychotherapist, Digital Lead, Highly Specialist CAMHS Practitioner & CAMHS Arts Therapies Professional Lead, East London NHS Foundation Trust
3. The Walton Centre Pain Management Team, Occupational Therapist, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
4. NeuroRehabilitation Online Team, Deliver NROL across Lancashire & South Cumbria, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
5. Moffat Makomo, Paediatric Occupational Therapist, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

AHP Workforce Transformation Award 2024 – awarded by NHS England

Nominations are welcome for this award from individual AHPs or teams who are demonstrating transformation through innovation in AHP workforce supply, this can include or be from pre-registration through to post programmes settings e.g., new ways of offering work experience, return to practice, advance practice and international recruitment.

2024 shortlist:

1. Krupa Patel AHP Leadership Fellow for International Recruitment, Michelle Nielsen & Chrystal Ahmet IR coordinators, West London NHS Trust
2. Cheshire and Merseyside AHP Faculty, To work collaboratively across the system in implementing the Long Term Workforce Plan for AHPs, Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
3. Felicity Devereux, Hannah Tomkins & Wendy Hollands, Oxleas AHP Preceptorship Leads & MPFT AHP Professional Workforce Lead, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, MPFT University Partnership Foundation Trust

AHP Innovation and Improvement within Integrated Care Systems Award 2024 – awarded by NHS England

Nominations are welcomed from AHP practitioners, or a team of practitioners to which AHPs have contributed, who have relentlessly focused on driving quality improvement in their work and who have been strong advocates for quality improvement. This may include practitioners who are involved in co-ordinating quality improvement work at a local level or individuals who are dedicated drivers for change and improvement.

2024 shortlist:

1. Angela Gibbon, Consultant Physiotherapist (Neuro Rehab), Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
2. Riley Walker, Anthony Pallister, Samantha Cooke, Lauren Boyd, Gerard Gartland, Senior specialist dietitian, Specialist dietitian, specialist dietitian, dietetic support worker, dietetic advanced practitioner, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
3. Katherine South, Dietetic Assistant Practitioner, The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
4. Speech and Language Therapy: Head and Neck Integrated Team, To provide integrated speech and language therapy services for patients with head and neck cancer in Cheshire and Merseyside, University of Liverpool

AHP Research Impact Award 2024 – awarded by the Council for Allied Health Professions Research and the National Institute for Health and Care Research

This award focuses on the contribution made by AHPs in developing, leading or supporting research in health, social care and public health, and the impact that this contribution has made. Submissions are welcome from individuals or teams who have led research related projects or initiatives that have had a positive impact on AHPs, AHP services, people and communities– including but not limited to safety, quality and outcomes; service delivery, efficiency and productivity; or education and workforce development.

2024 shortlist:

1. Professor Caroline Alexander, Lead Clinical Academic for Allied Health Professions, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
2. Vicky Pursey and Dr Sarah Baker Physiotherapist, Dietitian, York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals
3. Alison Levy, Lead Care Home Dietitian, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership
4. Lindsey Allan, Macmillan Oncology Dietitian, Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Greener AHP Award 2024 – awarded by Greener NHS

This award recognises an AHP team or individual who has delivered service improvements which improve healthcare’s environmental impact, for example carbon reduction projects or increasing equipment reuse. Nominations are welcome from AHPs and their teams, including support workers and students.

2024 shortlist:

1. Barts Health Limb Reconstruction and Research Physiotherapists, Clinical and Research Physiotherapists, Barts Health NHS Trust
2. Faith Toogood, Dietitian, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
3. Sarah Brook, Gastroenterology and Nutrition Support Dietitian, Locala Health and Wellbeing
4. Siobhan Ludlow, Sarah Percy and Rachel Daly. Consultant SLT, student SLT and Clinical Nurse Specialist, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust and Manchester Metropolitan University
5. MY Therapy – Mid Yorks Therapies Teams, Community Therapists, Mid Yorkshire Teaching Hospitals Trust NHS, Community Therapists, Mid Yorkshire Teaching Hospitals Trust NHS

AHP Leadership for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion award 2024 – awarded by NHS Race and Health Observatory

This award acknowledges and celebrates AHPs who have made a significant contribution to the advancement of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion agenda. Taking positive action to ensure strategies/ policies and wider work programmes are equitable, inclusive and give due regard to the diversity and strengths of all our communities, therefore facilitating the AHP workforce to reflect the people and populations we serve, through targeted evidence-based interventions.

2024 shortlist:

1. Naman Julka-Anderson, Research Therapeutic Radiographer & AHP Clinical Advisor, The Royal Marsden and Macmillan Cancer Support & Co-Founder of Rad Chat Oncology Podcast
2. Seema Gudivada, Chief AHP Birmingham Community Healthcare, Birmingham Community Healthcare
3. Alafiya Sachak, Head of Therapies, Ellen McAuliffe, OT Practice Educator, and Bruce Howell, Associate Professor in Language Assessment, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

CAHPO Award 2024 – awarded by the Chief Allied Health Professions Officer (England)

Awarded by the CAHPO, this is for the outstanding contribution and overall ‘AHP of the Year’, decided from the winners of each of the categories above. Please note: you cannot submit nominations for this award.