2025 Awards

Bladder & Bowel UK Clinical Excellence Award

The 2025 Bladder & Bowel UK Clinical Excellence Award

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About the award

The Bladder & Bowel UK Clinical Excellence Award is a celebration of outstanding bladder and/or bowel health care.

The award rewards the exceptional contribution of an individual, team or project working in the field of bladder and/or bowel health within the NHS or independent sector, by celebrating the demonstrable positive impact they have made to their patients or clients or to the public.  

Entrants may have used leadership, collaboration, innovation and/or novel approaches to engagement to improve access to care, health outcomes or quality of life for the public generally or to service users and their families. 

The Bladder & Bowel UK Clinical Excellence Award is a platform for honouring success and sharing outstanding practice. The award will be judged by experts and clinicians who specialise in bladder and/or bowel care. 

Applications

The application portal opens on the 1st January 2025 to professionals including nurses, midwives, allied healthcare professionals, doctors and researchers. They may be working with any client group or people of any age. The application closes on the 2nd May 2025.

Applications from individuals or teams are welcome as are nominations of an individual or team. We encourage interested applicants or nominating parties to get in touch with questions regarding eligibility. 

Judging begins on the 6th May 2025, and closes on the 31st July 2025. 

The award winner will be announced on 6th August 2025.

Awards

The winner(s) will receive a cheque for £500 and will be given the opportunity to present their work at our Bladder & Bowel UK symposia at Bolton Arena in March 2026 or Coventry Arena in September 2026. 

2024 Clinical Excellence Award winner

The Continence team at University Hospitals of Leicester won the Bladder & Bowel UK Clinical Excellence Award for their improvement innovation project, introducing the Purewick: a female external catheter as an alternative for female patients.

The team received a media pack and the opportunity to present at Bladder & Bowel UK’s North-West professional training symposia in March 2026.