Why enter

The Nursing Times Workforce Awards commend and acknowledge the outstanding efforts undertaken by both you and your employer in bolstering the nursing and midwifery workforce. Paired with our Nursing Times Workforce Summit, this event serves as both inspiration and recognition for organisations committed to excellence in supporting the future of healthcare workforce.

In ensuring a sustainable workforce for the future, nurse leaders hold a critical responsibility , making this event an invaluable opportunity to showcase your organisation as a premier workplace.

Securing a Nursing Times Workforce Award not only grants you and your team the well-deserved acclaim during a grand gala celebrating your accomplishments but also opens doors to a myriad of additional benefits that you may not yet have considered:

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
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See what our 2023 award winners had to say:

FAQs

Hopefully you'll find an answer to your question below. If not, please contact Madieson Charles-Christie on 020 3953 2647 or email madieson.charles-christie@emap.com.

To view the criteria, create your account, or login with your email and password used to create your account if you have already done so. Select ‘Enter Now’ against the category you wish to view where the criteria will be displayed. If you wish to start your entry at this point any information you add will be autosaved and you can login to complete the rest of the entry at any time.

Enter the email address and password that you used when you first started your entry on the log in page, you will then be taken through to your dashboard and will be able to continue your entry.

You can enter another category by selecting the category you wish to enter from the ‘Categories’ section.

Please contact Madieson Charles-Christie on 020 3953 2647 or email madieson.charles-christie@emap.com and he will be able to help you with your entry.

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.

 


This is such a wonderful event every year and its such a wonderful way to bring everyone together to meet with partners, NHS Trusts and to understand priorities for them.

Nadia Falou Stakeholder Relations Officer OET

This event is really important because you have like minded people all joining here, showing their views and ideas for the betterment of the nursing community.

Sreekanthan Gobalakrishna CMD Ebek

The Nursing Times is an incredible organisation in terms of the research it does the awareness it brings to nursing and to the profession. I definitely think its a great opportunity to be connected with such an amazing organisation.

Nonny Nze Director IELTS Medical

Come along to this event, you'll be able to speak to colleagues to really understand what's going on, and the pressures and realities we are all in this together.

Trish Spruce Associate Director of International Recruitment Yeovil & Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

You can't deliver healthcare without staff and so if you don't get workforce right and critically if you don't get nursing workforce right you can't get healthcare right.

Jane Ball Professor of Nursing Workforce and Policy. School of Health Sciences University of Southampton

This event is very important to the nursing professionals because it is a place they can come together and where people can have forward thinking discussions.

Beaulah Chizimba Founder and CEO Limitless Nurses

To be able to bring these people together and share that knowledge and to really be able to celebrate what's already happening is so important.

Professor Gemma Stacey deputy CEO Florence Nightingale Foundation