The team was delighted and honoured to win this award for their ‘Digital pathways for pre-operative consent’ approach, placing patients at the centre of the pathway and maximising every opportunity to inform and improve understanding throughout their journey.
The Leicester Operational Delivery Network (ODN) hepatitis C team were delighted and thrilled to receive the EPCA 2021 patient-centred care award, reflecting and recognising the amazing work carried out by the team over the past five years.
Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, the service felt it was a huge honour to be recognised for the EPCA 2021 excellence in a time of crisis award, which greatly boosted the morale of the team.
Due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions we are unable to hold a dedicated awards ceremony for the second year. Instead, we announced the winners during a virtual ceremony on Wednesday 26 May 2021.
The Channel 4 series, It’s a Sin, aired on British television for the first time in January 2021. Here, Dr Olwen Williams, RCP vice president for Wales and a consultant in sexual health and HIV medicine, discusses medical advances over the last 40 years and the stigma that remains.
The RCP has been informed that the 2019 application round for national clinical excellence awards in England and Wales will open on Thursday 7 February.
Entries are now being accepted for the RCP's member-exclusive Excellence in Patient Care Awards (EPCA) 2021, which recognise, celebrate and reward the hard work done by physicians and healthcare teams in the UK and globally.
