Integrated Health Awards 2007

Each year, we run our Integrated Health Awards to shine a spotlight on projects and practitioners with an innovative approach to health and wellbeing.  Explore the shortlist of entrants soon.

Awards presentation 2006We have drawn up this year's shortlist from dozens of entries.  The overall winner is being announced on 20th March, at a special ceremony in London.

The projects here cover an enormous range - from work with children with special needs, to innovative approaches to cancer and mental health, to promoting lifelong fitness and helping people manage chronic illness.

What unites all the projects is the recognition that people respond best when they have had a say in their treatment.  Whether a patient is struggling to learn to live in society with their ADHD, or isolated by back pain, or coping with an acute illness, they will have a better quality of life, and in many cases recover more quickly, when they are treated with a whole-person approach.

As our shortlist demonstrates, our bodily and mental health needs are deeply interconnected, and to treat either, we need to consider both.

The Shortlist

The shortlisted projects are:

UK Award:


Wales Award:


Northern Ireland Award:

 

The Prizes

There are three awards on offer this year:
  • the UK award (sponsored by Nelsons, the UK’s leading manufacturer of natural medicines) with prize money of £5000
  • the Wales award (sponsored by the Welsh Assembly Government) with prize money of £2500
  • the Northern Ireland award (sponsored by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Northern Ireland), with prize money of £2500.   This has already been announced - with the prize going to an exceptional nursery, Little Orchids.


The Awards Criteria

These were the criteria for taking part in this year's awards.  If you know of a project that meets these  criteria, why not encourage them to enter next year's competition, to be launched in April.  Sign up for our newsletter to receive updates on our awards and other FIH news.

  • Promoting healthy living and healthy societies; incorporating preventative approaches such as advocating a healthy diet and regular physical activity.
  • Creating supportive and sustainable environments in, for example, the workplace, the community and schools so that healthy choices are easy to make and accessible.
  • Looking at the whole person and taking into account the effects of lifestyle, environment and emotional wellbeing on a person’s health.
  • Having an emphasis on self-management and self-care. Supporting and empowering people to take an active role in their own care so they can exercise more control over their own health and their environments, and make choices conducive to health.
  • Demonstrating involvement of users in the planning, development and evaluation of the project or intervention.
  • Bringing together safe, effective and accessible approaches to integrated health including conventional medical science, complementary health and health promotion to enable populations to lead healthier lives.