WELCOME

Entries are now being invited for 2025

Journal of Wound Care (JWC) is the only monthly, international, impact factor wound care journal. It is a well-recognised journal and is essential reading for wound care professionals who are serious about providing the best possible support for the people in their care, and those who want to keep on top of the latest thinking and innovative research.

As part of the JWC Conference 2025, the JWC Awards will again be hosted at the Imperial War Museum in London on Friday 14th of February 2025. Entries will be opening in August, but you can check our entry requirements to ensure you are ready to showcase your achievements at a future JWC Awards.

Our awards recognise and celebrate excellence in research and practice on both a national and international scale, and provide accolades and recognition for work in the field. Every shortlisted and winning entry will benefit from benchmarking amongst peers, company recognition, an introduction to our esteemed judging panel, presence on the JWC awards website, and on our social media channels, not to mention the introduction to the wider wound care community.

We receive many nominations for our categories, from tissue viability nurses, to doctors and surgeons, to researchers. Our categories represent the ‘bench-to-bedside’ approach that we provide a platform for at JWC. Our categories include Innovation in Surgical Site Infection, Cellular, Acellular and Matrix-Like Products (CAMPs), Antimicrobial Stewardship, and Effective Burn Care.

Entering the awards is free and we especially welcome nominations from authors who have published with JWC before. The closing date for entries is to be announced and finalists will be notified in due course. Our winners will be announced at our awards ceremony that will be held at the Imperial War Museum in London on Friday 14th of February 2025.

We look forward to hearing more about you/your team's successes, progress and hard work during the last year!

Testimonials from our 2024 winners

Winning this prestigious award has not only validated our approach but has also significantly boosted our motivation

We are already exploring new avenues and aim to fill the gaps left by our current solutions

Mohammad Mohammad Amini Innovation in wound care winner 2024

This award provides a useful platform to expand research in this area

Professor Kayvan Shokrollahi Best Research award winner 2024

This recognition has a positive effect on promoting research not only in my laboratory but also in this field in general

Shiva Akbarzadeh Cellular, Acellular and Matrix-like Products (CAMPs) award winner 2024

Winning this award has solidified the importance of the work that I have been completing over the past year and has inspired me to continue pushing this role beyond expectations

Danielle Burnside Michelle Deeth New Talent award winner 2024

The award raised the profile of the team within the organisation, within Leeds, as well as nationally and internationally

Leeds Community Healthcare Antimicrobial Stewardship award winners 2023

The award will support future funding bids to do more research in this area, looking at wound care in low-resource settings

Matthew Wynn Cost-effective wound management award winner 2023

We're so proud of the achievement as by bringing awareness of HS (hidradenitis supparativa) and the challenges to the medical community, we can really start to improve the standard of care for patients with HS

Suzanne Moloney Best Clinical Research award winner 2023

Enter awards

Deadline: 31 October 2024

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HOW TO ENTER


Each entry must be submitted online using the online entry system. You will be asked to register after which you can choose the categories you wish to enter and follow the on-screen instructions. Once you have completed the work on your entries, you can submit them all at once. The online entry system allows you to start an entry, save it, and complete it at a later date.

Deadline for entries: Thursday, October 31st 2024

The main component of your entry is a 500 word written statement outlining what the nominee(s)/group/society has done, that has furthered knowledge and benefited/the patient or area. 

In addition to this you will need to supply:

  • Name of nominee
  • Job title
  • Place of work
  • Contact details (email, telephone, and address)
  • Supporting documents *preferable*
  • Supervisor details and confirmation of consent *preferable*
  • Supervisor statement *preferable*

Copies of author publications in JWC are welcome to further support your nomination.

Please note, all entries will be anonymised prior to judging.

You may submit additional information to support your entry, for example: images or testimonials, references and qualifications etc.

Wherever possible, this should be uploaded online with the entry. You can submit up to 3 files online to support your nomination, should you want to submit extra supporting documents please email it to nurseledconferences@markallengroup.com

Judging will be based on:

  • • Evidence of novelty/original thinking
  • • Evidence of a significant impact/benefit to the area or patients
  • • Evidence in the application or supporting document of the achievements described
  • • Suitability for the category entered
  • • Please note for dressing/device nominations

Companies are invited to submit nominations for: Innovative dressing and Most innovative product

This award will be judged by an independent panel of board members and KOLs.

Please take note of the information below to help you when submitting your entry.

  • • Be specific. Avoid going off topic
  • • Keep it simple and straight to the point
  • • You can use bullet points for clarity
  • • Avoid repetition
  • • Stick to the word limits
  • • If you’re re-submitting your entry, ensure that it highlights developments since the previous year. The judges will want to see growth
  • • Use evidence that is up-to-date with the constantly developing field

Evidence:

Always support your entry with evidence. Examples of some evidence are below:

  • • Feedback - patient/health professionals
  • • Posters
  • • Quality of life scores
  • • Documents
  • • Pictures
  • • Data

Please note, all entries will be anonymised prior to judging.

Good luck!

VENUE

Imperial War Museum, London


Address:

Lambeth Rd, London SE1 6HZ


Directions:

https://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-london/getting-here