The Chief Allied Health Professions Officer Awards 2025 are now open for nominations, giving AHPs from across the country the chance to receive recognition for exceptional patient care.
Closing on Sunday 1 June, the CAHPO Awards promote adoption and scale of good practice through celebrating and sharing success.
Open to all 14 Allied Health Professions (AHPs), applicants can nominate themselves or another AHP, including support workers, assistant practitioners, registered professionals and pre-registration apprentices.
Leadership, innovation, and impact
Award categories include:
- AHP Leadership for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Award: For AHPs who have made a significant contribution to the advancement of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion agenda by taking action to ensure strategies/policies and wider work programmes are equitable, inclusive and give due regard to the diversity and strengths of all our communities.
- AHP Research Impact Award: For AHPs who are developing, leading or supporting research in health, social care and public health, with a positive impact on AHPs, AHP services, people and communities - including safety, quality and outcomes; service delivery, efficiency and productivity; or education and workforce development.
- AHP Digital Practice Award: For AHPs who have led the way in digital developments, demonstrated innovation in information and communication technologies and supported commitments or priorities in the AHPs Deliver 2022-27 strategy.
- AHP Workforce Transformation Award: For AHPs or teams demonstrating transformation through innovation in AHP workforce supply, from pre-registration through to post programmes settings - for example, new ways of offering work experience, return to practice, advance practice and international recruitment.
- AHP Creative Provision of Placements Award: For AHP leaders, educators and/or students who have helped change the face of AHP practice-based learning, increasing the number of practice-based learning opportunities while maintaining or improving quality.
- AHP Public Health Award: For an AHP team or individual who has delivered service improvements which benefit population health and wellbeing and/or reduced health inequalities.
- AHP Innovation and Improvement within Integrated Care Systems Award: For practitioners or teams which AHPs have contributed to, relentlessly focusing on driving quality improvement in their work and who have been strong advocates for quality improvement.
- Greener AHP Award: For AHP teams or individuals who have delivered service improvements that improve healthcare’s environmental impact, for example carbon reduction projects or increasing equipment reuse.
Winners of each award will be announced in October 2025. The nomination form can be found here.
Submissions may contain a maximum of 500 words. No attachments or accompanying material will be considered.
Also announced will be the winner of the overall AHP of the year, awarded by the Chief Allied Health Professions Officer for outstanding contribution and decided from the winners of each of the categories above.
Nominations cannot be submitted for this award.
CAHPO Gold Excellence Award
The CAHPO Gold Award for Excellence is also now open for submissions. This award was introduced in October 2024 to mark National Allied Health Professions (AHPs) Day (14 October) and the anniversary of Professor Suzanne Rastrick OBE having been CAHPO for 10 years.
The Gold Award acknowledges, rewards and celebrates excellence within the AHP community. It recognises outstanding and exceptional contribution in their work, demonstration of strong NHS values and high levels of commitment and quality throughout their role.
While AHP colleagues can be nominated for the state honours system and for the annual CAHPO Awards, there are many AHPs in England whose work has made a significant contribution, but which does not necessarily fit with those existing routes of recognition.
Complementing the CAHPO Awards, the CAHPO Gold Award recognise individuals who have excelled in skills and expertise, leadership and inspiration, innovation and in bringing care and compassion to work throughout their career. The award identifies recipients as “beacons of their profession and a shining example for others to aspire to”.
To nominate an AHP for a CAHPO Gold Award, please complete the CAHPO Gold Award Nomination Form and submit it to the email address as instructed on the form. Applications close in Autumn 2025.
Questions should be directed to [email protected].
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