Sponsors

Help us make a real difference to patient care in the UK

Very few opportunities exist for companies to make a tangible difference to the wider society within which they operate. The BMJ Group Improving Health Awards is one such occasion.

Sponsorship opportunities

★Category Sponsorship opportunities [PDF download]

Categories still available to sponsor:

• Clinical Leader of the Year

Why get involved?

Improving patient outcomes is the single most important benefit to follow from evidence-based discussion and debate on health and healthcare. These awards will provide the foundations upon which those
improvements will be embedded and shared throughout the profession.

For doctors the peer recognition bestowed on our winners makes receiving a BMJ Group Improving Health award a truly career-defining moment.

To become a sponsor or for more information on category criteria please contact:

Joy Clarke
Senior Sales Manager
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7383 6055
Email: jclarke@bmjgroup.com

2012 Confirmed sponsors

★ Headline + Clinical Commissioning Team of the Year

MDDUS is a medical and dental defence organisation offering access to advice, support and professional indemnity for doctors, dentists and other healthcare professionals throughout the UK.

A mutual organisation, MDDUS has been protecting its medical and dental members for over 100 years. Its team of well-qualified and experienced advisers and legal staff delivers a service highly valued by members.

★ Research Paper of the Year

GlaxoSmithKline – one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies – is committed to improving the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer. For further information please visit www.gsk.com

“GSK is proud to sponsor the BMJ Group Awards – supporting improvements in health by recognising high quality research.”

★ Improvement in Patient Safety

The Health Foundation is an independent charity working to continuously improve the quality of healthcare in the UK.

We want the UK to have a healthcare system of the highest possible quality – safe, effective, person-centred, timely, efficient and equitable.

We believe that in order to achieve this, health services need to continually improve the way they work. We are here to inspire and create the space for people to make lasting improvements to health services. Working at every level of the system, we aim to develop the technical skills, leadership, capacity and knowledge, and build the will for change, to secure lasting improvements to healthcare.

★ Working in Partnership

Takeda UK is part of an $15.75 billion research‐based global enterprise, employing more than 19,600 people in 71 countries. Our main therapy areas are prostate and bone cancer, diabetes, hypertension and heart failure. In the field of chronic conditions, these include two important oral diabetes medicines and the UK’s No.1 ARB, and we apply the same energy and expertise to our expanding oncology portfolio.

Innovative and forward‐looking, we combine a holistic approach to optimising health with a pioneering strategy based on working collaboratively with local NHS organisations to meet specific local needs. With senior Regional Account Directors and talented specialist teams, we respond imaginatively and effectively to these requirements and seek out new opportunities to help clinicians meet their objectives by improving patient outcomes.

Further information about Takeda in the UK and Ireland is available at www.takeda.co.uk

★ The 'Karen Woo' Award

Bupa's purpose is to help people lead longer, healthier, happier lives.   A leading international healthcare group, we offer personal and company health insurance, run care homes for older people and hospitals, and provide workplace health services, health assessments and chronic disease management services, including health coaching, and home healthcare.   Employing nearly 52,000 people, Bupa has operations around the world, principally in the UK, Australia, Spain, New Zealand and the USA, as well as Hong Kong, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, India, China and across Latin America.

★ Excellence in Healthcare Education

★ Healthcare Communication Campaign

 ★ Sport and Exercise Team of the Year

Providing the tools to deliver health outcomes through structured and measured physical activity/ exercise.  Implementing Technogym and American College of Sports Medicine’s “Exercise is Medicine” model.

Technogym are World leaders in delivering exercise solutions with the Health & Medical Sector.

Whether you are seeking to drive up physical activity within a community setting, through exercise referral schemes or deliver structured exercise in a clinical setting- Technogym is the partner of choice.

Technogym are proud to be the official suppliers to The London Olympics 2012

We have vast experience in delivering exercise solutions that truly impact positively upon health, come and speak to us about:
•    Creating a community Hub & Spoke model, providing the vehicle for change in relation to making ”More People, More Active, More Often”
•    “Exercise is Medicine” Technogym and ACSM, developed structured exercise protocols for the management of 7 non communicable diseases.
•    My Wellness Key, a device that aids the recording of both indoor and outdoor exercise whilst providing feedback and motivation to the end user. Delivering behavioural change through exercise and physical activity interventions.
•    Comprehensive product range to  meet your requirement

•    Free design and consultancy- future proof your service.

★Junior Doctor of the Year

★Transforming Patient Care Using Technology

Who has sponsored the awards to date?