Sponsors 2009
Abbott Nutrition and Age Concern
Sponsoring the Nursing Innovation in Managing Malnutrition Award
Abbott Nutrition supports patients and healthcare professionals with a comprehensive range of medical nutrition products and services, ranging from oral nutritional supplements to specialist feeds and pumps.
Age Concern, the UK's largest organisation working for older people, provides information, advice, social clubs, transport, and advocacy services, to help enable older people to get more out of life.
Age Concern's 'Hungry to Be Heard' campaign, supported by Abbott Nutrition, is helping to end malnutrition among older people in hospital. Through sponsorship of this award, we are pleased to be able to recognise the valuable contribution of nurses in combating what is a significant health issue across vulnerable patient groups, in both the hospital and community setting.
Boehringer and Parkinson’s Disease Society
Sponsoring the Innovation in Parkinson's Disease Award
The Boehringer Ingelheim group is one of the world's 20 leading pharmaceutical companies. Headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany, it operates globally with 135 affiliates in 47 countries and 39,800 employees.
Since it was founded in 1885, the family-owned company has been committed to researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing novel products of high therapeutic value for human and veterinary medicine.
In 2007, Boehringer Ingelheim posted net sales of 10.9 billion euro while spending one fifth of net sales in its largest business segment Prescription Medicines on research and development.
In 1989 Parkinson’s Disease Society pioneered the first Parkinson’s Disease Nurse. There are now hundreds of nurses across the UK offering a targeted service to greatly improve the quality of care available for Parkinson’s. We are delighted to sponsor this new award to acknowledge the huge contribution they make.
The Parkinson’s Disease Society (PDS) is the UK’s leading charity dedicated to supporting everyone affected by Parkinson’s. We campaign for a better quality of life for people with Parkinson’s and provide expert information on all aspects of living with the condition. Our pioneering research is transforming treatment and taking us closer to a cure.
GSK
Sponsoring the Travel Health Nursing Award
As more people travel abroad, travel health is an increasingly complex and important element of nursing, involving:
- pre-travel risk assessment
- providing quality travel health advice
- knowledge of current resources
- supporting patient compliance to complete vaccination courses
- options to maximise practice income
Every 4 seconds, someone in the UK receives a GlaxoSmithKline vaccine. GSK also provides vaccine information and education, reinforcing their commitment to supporting healthcare professionals.
LV=
Sponsoring the Child Health Award
As part of the Nursing Standard Nurse Awards 2009, LV= is delighted to sponsor the Child Health Award. As the UK's largest Friendly Society, LV= is proud of it's long standing association with the RCN, enabling us to offer RCN members discounts on car and home insurance, together with Independent Financial Advice from LV='s chosen provider Lighthouse Temple. For more information please visit www.rcn.org.uk/insurance.
Ministry of Justice and Department of Health
Sponsoring the Nursing Innovation in Criminal Justice Settings Award
Offender Health – Department of Health
Offenders are without doubt one of the most challenging, complex and socially excluded groups in contact with health and social care services in the country today. To meet their needs they require a degree of expertise, sensitivity, collaboration and creativity above that found in mainstream services. Offender Health is a focussed inter governmental team, based at the Department of Health, dedicated to the needs of this group, developing policy to meet that need and providing support to regions and local services to address this need.
Nursing Standard
Sponsoring the RCN Fellows Student Nurse Award
Nursing Standard is the UK's best selling nursing journal*. Published by the Royal College of Nursing Publishing, Nursing Standard is essential reading for all levels of nurses. Every issue addresses the latest developments in nursing policy and practice and is packed with up-to-the minute news and research, expert analysis, clinical features and careers information.
* ABC 2007-2008
Rosemont Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Sponsoring the Best Practice in Medication Administration Award
Medication is an essential part of most patients' care plans and nurses have a key role to play in administration. This role includes liaison with prescribers and dispensers, education of patients / carers and other healthcare professionals, accurate documentation and the safe storage / disposal of medications. In addition, nurses who are responsible for medication administration look for ways to improve both patient safety and adherence to the prescribed medication, for example a patient with stroke-related dysphagia will find swallowing medication a challenge.
This award will be given to the nurse who can demonstrate how improvements have been made to enhance any aspect of best practice in medication administration.
RCN Nursing Department
Sponsoring the Innovation in your Specialty Award
The RCNs newly restructured Nursing Department works with Professional Forums to influence, develop and support nursing practice. We are therefore very proud and delighted to sponsor this new category of the Nursing Standard Nurse of the Year Awards.
Royal College of Nursing
Sponsoring the Robert Tiffany International Award
The Royal College of Nursing is the largest professional union of nurses in the world. It represents the UK nursing voice internationally and campaigns on EU and global health issues. The RCN supports the professional and workplace development of nursing staff at home and abroad, including advice on opportunities to work and volunteer overseas.
South London and Maudsley NHS Trust
Sponsoring the Mental Health Nursing Award
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provides mental health and substance misuse services for people living in the London Boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham. In addition, the Trust provides substance misuse services for people in the London Boroughs of Bexley, Greenwich and Bromley, as well as specialist services to people from across the UK.
The Open University and the Royal College of Nursing Strategic Alliance
Sponsoring the Healthcare Assistant Award
The Open University (OU) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) have joined forces to provide learning for healthcare assistants that fits around work and home commitments.
You can continue to learn while you earn, build your confidence, improve patient care and develop your career. You can also join the RCN and receive a 10% discount on many OU courses.
For further information call 0845 300 60 90 or visit www.openuniversity.co.uk/rcn
The Health Foundation
Sponsoring the Ward Sister Award
The Health Foundation is an independent, charitable foundation working as a catalyst to improve the quality of healthcare in the UK and beyond.
We identify evidence about issues and solutions through research, commission improvement programmes to test ideas and build skills, promote our learning to policy makers and people in healthcare, and develop people to lead quality into the future.
We are independent of interest groups, forming constructive partnerships in healthcare policy, research and practice. We spend £25m annually to close the gap between the best care and what patients routinely receive.
Wyeth
Sponsoring the Innovation in Palliative Care Award
As one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies with significant investments in palliative care symptom management research, Wyeth is delighted to be the sponsor of the 2009 Innovations in Palliative Care Award. Wyeth is committed to working in partnership with nurses, and to supporting the new and innovative ways nurses are working to help restore patient dignity and manage symptoms for patients at the end of their life.
Wyeth
Sponsoring the Innovation in Rheumatology / Rheumatoid Arthritis Award
As one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies with a major interest in rheumatology, Wyeth is delighted to be the sponsor of the 2009 Innovations in Rheumatology/Rheumatoid Arthritis Award. Wyeth is committed to working in partnership with nurses, and to supporting the new and innovative ways that nurses are working to better meet the needs of their patients.