The Nursing Times Workforce Awards 

The Nursing Times Workforce Awards recognise and reward the excellent work that is being done by you and your employer to support the nursing and midwifery workforce. Co-located with our Nursing Times Workforce Summit, this event inspires and rewards organisations for excellence in supporting the future of the health and care workforce.

Ensuring a sustainable workforce fit for the future is the responsibility of all nurse leaders, making this event the best opportunity to position your organisation as an excellent place to work.

Winning a Nursing Times Workforce Award not only provides you and your team with the recognition you deserve at a gala evening celebrating your achievements, but also a host of other benefits that you might not realise:

What can winning a Nursing Times Workforce Award do for you and your team?

• Be part of an elite crowd of award winners: join the Nursing Times Workforce Award winners’ club, we don’t give out awards to just anyone!
• Make a name for you and your organisation: gain recognition for your innovative approach to recruitment and workforce management
• Share best practice and help improve the profession: help to improve the image of nursing and midwifery and attract more people into the profession
• Recognise your potential: everyone needs validation at times and what better way to confirm that you and your team are doing an excellent job
• Network with high-level nurses: meet some of the most important figures in the nursing community and get recognised for your work

Judges

Our prestigious judges feature some of the top figures in the health and care profession alongside several past award winners.

They will assess your work in a rigorous judging process, reading and scoring each individual entry carefully to determine our 2023 shortlist.  In most cases, the shortlist will then be debated by judges at a virtual roundtable to ultimately decide our winner.

However, finalists for the following categories only, will be required to attend a face-to-face presentation and interview with our esteemed judging panel to determine the winners.  They are:

• Nurse Manager of the Year 
• Manager of the Year (non-clinical)
• Workforce Team of the Year 
• Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff  
• Diversity and Inclusion Champion of the Year
• Best Social Responsibility Programme
• Best Use of Workplace Technology
  

This judging will take place from 11 – 13 October 2023 at our central London office:

emap Publishing Ltd
Harmsworth House,
13 – 15 Bouverie Street,
London,
EC4Y 8DP

 
The judges dedicate their time and energy to the awards, with many returning to help us every year. We want to say a huge thank you to our judging panel for their hard work.

Hints and tips

Our panel of judges have provided some tips to help you when submitting your entry. Please take note of the information below

Your entry:

• Stick to the word limits
• Don’t repeat yourself
• Be specific
• Keep it simple and put the facts…don’t fill with things you don’t need. Bullets points can help provide the clear points
• Tell a story, use the summary box to do this. It’s a great way to introduce your entry to the judges
• If you’re re-submitting your initiative, ensure your entry highlights developments since the previous year. The judges will want to see growth
• Use up-to-date evidence
• Answer the questions asked, don’t go off topic
• Work with communication teams within your trust to help write the application
• Remember there is no right or wrong answer

Evidence:

Always back up your entry with relevant evidence, examples of some evidence judges want to see are below:

• Feedback - patient/ staff
• Posters
  
• Audits
• Quality of life scores
• Documents
• Pictures
• Data
• Patient stories
• Try to condense you pieces of evidence into five documents.

Top tip:

Why not read more about the 2022 finalists, click here to take a look.