Entry deadline | Friday 9 May

HCA Healthcare UK is one of the leading private healthcare providers in the UK, providing seamless expert medical care across a system of hospitals, outpatient clinics, GP practices and NHS partnerships. Over 3,000 consultant partners provide a depth and breadth of care across our hospitals and clinics that is unmatched in the independent sector.

From our beginnings as a small hospital founded by doctors in the US, we came to the UK in the nineties to establish hospitals with the deep clinical infrastructure to provide the most complex care otherwise not routinely available outside of the NHS.

Today, we employ approx. 5,500 people and our founding philosophy of putting patients first guides us every step of the way. HCA UK has a higher proportion of CQC ‘Outstanding’ ratings than any other private hospital group in the UK, with a total of 16 ‘Outstanding’ locations. We are also proud to be the no.1 in the UK for private cardiac care, based on national private cardiac volumes, with more people coming to us for private cardiac care than anywhere else in the UK while our continued investment in the latest medical technology means we are the largest provider of robotic surgery in the independent sector, with a fleet of seven da Vinci surgical systems across five hospitals.

The NIHR fund, enable and deliver world-leading health and social care research that improves people's health and wellbeing, and promotes economic growth.

We do this by:

• Funding high quality, timely research that benefits the NHS, public health and social care;
• Investing in world-class expertise, facilities and a skilled delivery workforce to translate discoveries into improved treatments and services;
• Partnering with patients, service users, carers and communities, improving the relevance, quality and impact of our research;
• Attracting, training and supporting the best researchers to tackle complex health and social care challenges;
• Collaborating with other public funders, charities and industry to help shape a cohesive and globally competitive research system;
• Funding applied global health research and training to meet the needs of the poorest people in low and middle income countries.

NIHR is funded by the Department of Health and Social Care. Its work in low and middle income countries is principally funded through UK Aid from the UK government.

Nuffield Health, a healthcare charity, is driven by its purpose to build a healthier nation and our experts have been working together for more than 65 years to make the nation fitter, healthier, happier and stronger.

Nuffield Health believes that the best healthcare should help prevent illness by looking after mind and body. That’s why its connected healthcare approach spans hospital, physical and mental health including free community programmes such as the Joint Pain Programme, which utilises fitness and wellbeing centres across the UK to help more people better manage their pain and symptoms.

Nurses and nursing care play a key role at Nuffield Health, that’s why the Green Healthcare Leadership Programme for nurses was co-created with the Florence Nightingale Foundation. This programme upskills talented nurses within sustainable healthcare, with a growing number of nurses from the NHS and independent sector taking part each year. Nuffield Health’s Preceptorship Programme supports newly qualified nurses as they transition from student to confident clinician. This has been previously won “Preceptorship Programme of the Year” at the Nursing Times Awards.

UNISON is the UK’s leading and biggest health trade union. We are passionate about supporting nurses and midwives and all those who work tirelessly to deliver care to the nation.

UNISON is campaigning for a strong and improved NHS for the 21st century. We believe that nurses should be valued and respected for the work they do and should be supported to deliver the very best, safe, person centred care.

Join UNISON now for professional advice and essential cover at work as well as a range of exclusive member benefits for you and your family at home. Find out more at unison.org.uk

We are proud to sponsor the award for ‘Team of the Year’, recognising that good patient care requires the whole team to work well together.