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The C+D Awards 2025 return for the 18th anniversary!
It’s been another blistering year, and the C+D team is delighted to announce that the foremost professionals in community pharmacy will once again have the opportunity to gather together to celebrate excellence in the sector.
Much-loved categories like Community Pharmacist of the Year and Independent Pharmacy of the Year will return, alongside recent additions like Trainee Pharmacist of the Year, which returns to acknowledge an outstanding individual just starting out in their career.
Key details:
Entry deadline: Friday, June 6, 2025
Early-bird table booking ending: Friday, June 13, 2025
Ceremony: Thursday, September 11, 2025
Location: London Hilton on Park Lane
Shortlist Announced: July 2025
New for 2025, we have added a Pharmacy Technician of the Year award to reflect the increasing importance pharmacy technicians are playing in the world of community pharmacy, and will play in the future.
As ever, we have made it easy to enter, and it is completely free to do so. Also, if you are shortlisted you will qualify for a highly discounted ticket to the awards evening itself.
Whether you know a manager of the year, or an outstanding health initiative, an innovation you know has moved the community pharmacy dial, or you want to recognise a member of your pharmacy team, there is no better way to do it. Use the C+D Awards to pay tribute and celebrate them - and join us
Watch the 2024 Highlights Video
C+D wants to hear from you about the unsung heroes in your profession.
This is a wonderful opportunity to recognise and celebrate a pharmacist or pharmacy staff member who has gone the extra mile for their patients and the sector as a whole.
Share with us a time when you or your team exceeded expectations to assist patients, perhaps through life-saving interventions, charitable endeavours, or other remarkable efforts. The stories in each category will be subject to voting by C+D readers.
Unlike other C+D Awards, this is not an evaluation of an individual's entire career or a comprehensive project. Instead, it focuses on a specific event that allowed you or a colleague to stand out. The awards welcome submissions from any team, pharmacist, or pharmacy staff member with a noteworthy story from 2024. Although this category revolves around a singular experience, feel free to provide some background context and explain the repercussions of your story.
For instance, if your entry involves a patient intervention that went beyond standard of care, you may want to offer background information about your relationship with the patient and provide an update on their current well-being. However, if your narrative tends to focus more broadly on your or your pharmacy's achievements, it's advised to consider entering one of the other 13 C+D Awards categories. If the story you wish to submit involves a colleague rather than yourself, you are permitted to enter on their behalf. Ensure you have verified all the details with them and be aware that they will receive a complimentary ticket to the awards ceremony if they make the shortlist.
WHO CAN ENTER
Any pharmacist, pharmacy staff member or pharmacy team
Great pharmacy businesses never stand still either on the ground or online. They continue to innovate, evolve and raise the bar for competitors. And it’s not just about throwing cash at problems – it’s about the creative ideas that genuinely move your business forward. So what have you done to innovate? Have you gone greener? Have you led the way on the ground? Or have you taken to Facebook to organise a health campaign, used Twitter to promote your brand or launched a new website? Whatever you have done the judges will want to see how your business and, most importantly, your customers have benefited.
In no more than 300 words per question, please answer the following:
- How did you identify the need for your innovation and how did it meet this need?
- What impact has your innovation had on your pharmacy business and/or your pharmacy team(s)?
- What impact has your innovation had on your customers?
- How has your initiative improved your pharmacy’s/ies’ links with other healthcare professionals?
WHO CAN ENTER
Any UK-based pharmacy business which has a green, on the ground or online innovation to showcase or believes it has risen the competitive bar.
Whether you are a branch manager, running your own pharmacy, or acting as superintendent, you strive to be the best. Tell us how you have utilised delivery of your contract, developed clinical services and built links with patients and peers.
In no more than 300 words per question, please answer the following:
- What have you done to deserve this award and why?
- What impact have you had on your patients?
- What impact have you had on your pharmacy/ies and/or your pharmacy team(s)?
- How have you developed, utilised and motivated your pharmacy team(s)?
- How have you improved you and your pharmacy’s/ies’ links with other healthcare professionals?
WHO CAN ENTER
Any UK-based branch manager, owner or superintendent pharmacist.
This award aims to shine a light on vital work that is being done by pharmacy teams, organisations and individuals to challenge inequality in the sector. Tell us about an innovative training course your pharmacy has run to educate staff about diversity, or an initiative you’ve implemented to promote more diversity in your team. However you’ve promoted equality and diversity, tell us your story.
In no more than 300 words per question, please answer the following:
- What have you/your team/your workplace done to deserve this award and why?
- What impact has this had on your team and/or the wider company (if applicable)?
- What tangible benefits have come out of your initiative?
WHO CAN ENTER
Any UK-based individual or team working for or on behalf of a community pharmacy business.
Whether you offer public health services like a travel clinic providing comprehensive travel health advice and vaccinations, or clinical services such as smoking cessation or diabetes screening.
It goes without saying that your service has to be well executed:
- How did you identify the need for your public health or clinical service and how did it meet this need?
- What impact has your health initiative had on your patients?
- What impact has your health initiative had on your pharmacy(ies) and/or your pharmacy teams
- How did your health initiative improve your pharmacy’s (ies’) links with other healthcare professionals?
Do you provide public health services such as a travel clinic offering comprehensive travel health advice and vaccinations? Or perhaps clinical services like flu vaccinations? This is the category for you to showcase your work.
WHO CAN ENTER
Any UK-based provider of public health or clinical services.
Every independent pharmacy has to balance the demands of delivering a modern, patient-centred health service with offering a customer experience that rivals the big high-street retailers – an even harder challenge in today’s harsh funding environment.
In no more than 300 words per question, please answer the following:
- What has your independent pharmacy business done to deserve this award and why?
- What impact has your independent pharmacy business had on its patients?
- What impact has your independent pharmacy business had on its team(s)?
- How has your independent pharmacy business improved its links with other healthcare professionals?
WHO CAN ENTER
Any UK-based independent pharmacy.
Whether working at the coalface as a pharmacist or technician, in head office as a superintendent, in a professional development role, or as an area or regional manager, an award-worthy manager has the ability to make things happen.
In no more than 300 words per question, please answer the following:
- What have you done to deserve this award and why?
- What impact has your management had on your patients?
- What impact has your management had on your pharmacy/ies and/or its team(s)?
- How have you improved your and your pharmacy’s/ies’ links with other healthcare professionals?
WHO CAN ENTER
Any UK-based:
- Pharmacist or technician
- Individual working as a superintendent pharmacist in head office
- Individual working in a professional development role or
- Area or regional manager
Whether you are a GP or PCN pharmacist, you strive to be the best. Tell us how you have maximised delivery of your contract, developed clinical services and built links with patients and peers.
In no more than 300 words per question, please answer the following:
- What have you done to deserve this award and why?
- What impact have you had on your patients?
- What impact have you had on your pharmacy/ies and/or your pharmacy team(s)?
- How have you developed, utilised and motivated your pharmacy team(s)?
- How have you improved your pharmacy’s/ies’ links with other healthcare professionals?
WHO CAN ENTER
Any UK-based GP or PCN pharmacist.
Perhaps you have helped recruit patients to your pharmacy’s services and delivered health promotion activities. Or maybe you improved safety or efficiency in the dispensing process, while mentoring colleagues. Either way, this is your time to shine.
In no more than 300 words per question, please answer the following:
- What have you done to deserve this award and why?
- What impact have you had on your patients?
- What impact have you had on your pharmacy/ies?
- How have you improved your and your pharmacy’s/ies’ links with other healthcare professionals?
WHO CAN ENTER
Any UK-based member of a pharmacy team.
Tell us how your team puts your pharmacy or pharmacies at the heart of the community it serves, how it has overcome obstacles by working together and how it has used individual skills and strengths to create an even more powerful whole – all to the benefit of patients.
In no more than 300 words per question, please answer the following:
- What have you done to deserve this award and why?
- What impact have you had on your patients?
- What impact have you had on your pharmacy/ies?
- How have you improved your and your pharmacy’s/ies’ links with other healthcare professionals?
WHO CAN ENTER
Any UK-based pharmacy team.
The winner of this award won’t be your average trainee pharmacist; they will have set themselves apart from their peer group with their drive, ingenuity, ideas and commitment to make a difference to their community.
In no more than 300 words per question, please answer the following:
- What have you done to deserve this award and why?
- What impact have you had on your patients?
- What impact have you had on your pharmacy and its team?
- How have you improved your and your pharmacy’s links with other healthcare professionals?
- What are the key lessons you have learned during your pharmacy training and how will they make you a better healthcare practitioner?
WHO CAN ENTER
Any UK-based trainee pharmacist.
Have you developed an innovative training programme? Or are you a trainee tutor who has found new ways to motivate trainees to reach their full potential? The judges will want to see how you have put your team and their skills at the heart of what you do.
In no more than 300 words per question, please answer the following:
- How did you identify the need for your training and development initiative(s) and how did it/they meet this need?
- How has your training and development initiative(s) developed, utilised and/or motivated your pharmacy team(s)?
- What impact has your training and development initiative(s) had on your patients?
- What impact has your training and development initiative(s) had on your pharmacy/ies?
- How has your training and development initiative(s) improved your pharmacy’s/ies’ links with other healthcare professionals?
WHO CAN ENTER
Any UK-based pharmacy organisation or trainee pharmacist tutor.
New for 2025 is the Pharmacy Technician of the Year award. Introduced in response to the changing landscape of community pharmacy, and the role pharmacy technicians are playing in it, we are looking forward to seeing who is nominated.
- What have you achieved to deserve this award?
- What impact have you had on patients?
- What impact have you had on the community pharmacy you work in?
- How have you developed your skills and capabilities over the last year?
WHO CAN ENTER
Any UK-based pharmacy technician.
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