The Chief Medical Officer has established this annual award to identify and acknowledge individuals, teams or services in England that have made an impact in public health. In determining the winners, judges will be particularly looking for evidence of impact, sustainability of the initiative and how replicable it is to other settings or areas.

The Awards are open to anyone working in public health in England, regardless of job title or role, which can include the community or voluntary sector and is not necessarily NHS. The work being submitted for consideration must have been active on or after 1 January 2009.

• Each written submission will be assessed by a judging panel
• Shortlisted entrants will be required to present to the judges and Chief Medical Officer in early May 2010
• Shortlisted entrants will be notified by mid April 2010
• Finalists will then be selected for the gold, silver or bronze Chief Medical Officer's Public Health Award 2010
• The winners will be announced at a ceremonial dinner on 12 May 2010, held at the Royal College of Physicians. All shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend
• Please register your entry by Wednesday 24 February 2010

Please click on the links below to submit an entry and to read the Call For Entries Guidance Notes.

Entries must be completed and submitted online only, using the registration link below.

Please read the guidance notes before completing the entry form. The notes are also shown below these links.

Download Call For Entries Guidance Notes (PDF, 342kb) 

or

Registration page (to submit your entry)

Completing the form

The submission form should be no more than 1,000 words in total, including a 100 word key statement. Please demonstrate to the judges the following:

• evidence of impact
• sustainability of the initiative
• how the work is replicable to other settings or areas

Please note that entries must be completed and submitted online only.

If you have any queries regarding the awards or experience any difficulties when registering your entry please contact the awards registration team: info@cmoawards.org.uk or call 0845 508 8742. (Please note this is a message taking service and we will call you back as soon as possible. This is a UK local rate telephone number but please refer to your service provider for mobile networks or calls from outside the UK.)

Terms and Conditions

1. Entry is open to bona fide individuals or other groups who are working in public health in England. This includes the community or voluntary sector as well as NHS. The judges reserve the right to decide on the eligibility of any entrant against the above criteria with their decision being final and binding.
2. Entries that are incomplete or wrongly completed will be disqualified at the sole discretion of the awards team.
3. The judges reserve the right to disqualify any entry that they consider, in their sole discretion, to be in breach of any law, or of any other relevant codes of practice.
4. Only initiatives that were active on or after 1 January 2009 are eligible.
5. Entries must be submitted in the form stated in the entry instructions.
6. Entries must be signed by the entrant who, in the case of projects involving multiple team members, will also be deemed the lead applicant and primary responsible contact for the entry.
7. The entrant, or lead applicant concerned, grants to the Chief Medical Officer, in principal, the right to publish the submission and/or its contents. The Chief Medical Officer would seek permission before so doing.
8. No submissions will be returned. No liability is accepted for loss of or damage to submissions.
9. The judges' decisions are final on all matters and no correspondence will be entered into.
10. Judges will not be entitled to vote on their own submissions or on any activity in which they have any vested interest.
11. All entries must be received by Wednesday 24 February 2010.
12. The Chief Medical Officer reserves the right, in extenuating circumstances, to cancel the awards programme at any time and shall not have any liability of whatsoever nature to entrants in such circumstances or otherwise.