2025 Awards
Bladder & Bowel UK Clinical Excellence Award
The 2025 Bladder & Bowel UK Clinical Excellence Award – Application portal opening soon.
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What is 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
Applications are open to professionals including nurses, midwives, allied healthcare professionals, doctors and researchers. They may be working with any client group or people of any age.
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.
Awards
The winner(s) will receive a cheque for £500 and will give a presentation of their work at one of the Bladder & Bowel UK symposia for professionals working in the continence field, taking place at the Bolton Arena in March 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.