Each year the Bupa Foundation gives a number of prizes to recognise excellence in medical research and health care.
£60,000 will be allocated for completed research and/or development that has been conducted over the past three years into each of the four research themes.
- Healthy lives prize
Enabling sustained behaviour changes towards a healthy lifestyle in relation to smoking, diet, physical activity and/or alcohol consumption. - Patients as partners prize
Utilising or developing shared-decision making tools for better patient decisions for use amongst disadvantaged or diverse groups. - Vitality for life prize
Promoting and encouraging healthy ageing through physical activity and other behaviour-based and social solutions for the older age group (65+ years). - Technology for healthy outcomes prize
Using new technologies to cheaply and effectively organise and interpret health outcomes data - for better design of community health activities and to improve patient decision making.
The Bupa Foundation holds an annual gala dinner in November at which the winners of the prizes are announced. The event attracts an audience of opinion formers, medical professionals, business contacts and journalists and provides a valuable networking opportunity.
Each award is £15,000. This is divided into two parts: £5,000 will be paid direct to the individual or team members and £10,000 will be for use to further the prize winner's project. The prizes are given on the basis of a direct application to the Bupa Foundation by researchers or by nominations of a candidate by postgraduate deans or heads of departments.
Feedback from our previous winners:
"The publicity has been excellent in getting our work recognised and adopted by other services. The financial prize has enabled us to develop our app as we had hoped and develop its potential. We have used some of the prize money to buy more hardware to enable wider use of the app."
Dr Alasdair Corfield, the Emergency Medical Retrieval Service, winner of the Technology for Healthy Outcomes Prize 2011
"The award has been fantastic for me. It has enabled me to do some research and it has been great for esteem."
Professor Greg Atkinson, Liverpool John Moores University, winner of the Health at Work Award 2010
"We felt that we met most of the criteria but knew the competition would be intense so we didn't expect to win, it was a fantastic surprise."
Mrs Benedetta Rossi, The Leicestershire and Rutland Hospice, winner of the Clinical Excellence Award 2009
"The money has enabled us to pursue our research - could not have done so without the win! Also, it's a well respected award and a great addition to one's CV."
Professor Kim Burton, University of Huddersfield, winner of the Health at Work Award 2008
