Entries are now closed for the British Journal of Midwifery Practice Awards 2011

• Community Midwife of the Year Award

  This award aims to highlight the work of Community Midwives who provide outstanding maternity care for women in a community setting. The award would recognize the work of a Community Midwife who has shown an unfailing commitment to ensuring women receive the best antenatal and postnatal care.

• Lifetime Achievement Award

  This award recognizes the contribution made over a number of years by an inspirational and/or influential midwife. He or she will be an exceptional candidate, whose work has made a major impact on the midwifery profession in any of these ways: clinical practice, management, leadership, far reaching educational accomplishment or research.

• Midwife of the Year

  This award will go to a midwife who has demonstrated outstanding dedication and commitment to the caring of the mother and baby. The winner of this category will have proven to be an indispensable pillar of the midwifery community, and can show positive examples of good evidence-based midwifery practice.

• Innovator of the Year

  This award aims to highlight innovative ideas in the clinical setting that have resulted in better outcomes for mothers and their babies. The winner will have identified an area of midwifery care that would be improved, and will have carried out evidence-based changes to practice, demonstrating that these have resulted in an enhanced service.

• Team of the Year

  The winning team in this category will show the importance of teamwork in midwifery units or in the delivery of midwifery in particular. Special consideration will go to teams that can demonstrate effectively the link between education, research and clinical practice in the delivery of a first-class service to women.

• Excellence in Supervision of Midwives Award

  This category would recognize the work of Supervisors of Midwives who have shown outstanding leadership skills and the ability to nurture potential leaders while also maintaining high service standards.

• Student Midwife of the Year

  Once again BJM is delighted to present an award for Student Midwife of the Year. This award is open to all student midwives and recognizes the enthusiasm and willingness to question practice that students bring to midwifery.

Click here to access information regarding 2011 awards.