Confidentiality
All judges will sign a confidentiality agreement prior to appointment. As the organisers of the QiC Diabetes awards, PMGroup also undertakes to adhere to the confidentiality agreements.
The judging process
Each entry will be reviewed by a multi-disciplinary panel of eminent diabetes professionals, nurses, patient representatives, clinicians, charities, CCG groups and leading industry professionals.
There are seven different entry categories for children, young people and emerging adults and adult submissions. There are also an additional three nomination categories.
Once the entry deadline has passed, all submissions will be reviewed by the judging panel.
Finalists will be announced after the judging day on Tuesday 6 September (by 16 September) and invited to attend the QiC Diabetes 2022 Awards which will take place on Thursday 13 October as a live event. Government guidelines allowing.
The judging panel
The panel of judges comprises recognised academics, clinicians, patient bloggers, nurses and commissioners working in diabetes.
The judging chairs are:
- Simon O’Neill, Director of Health Intelligence and Professional Liaison, Diabetes UK
- Dr Paru King, Consultant Physician, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton
- Dr Marc Atkin, Consultant Diabetes and Endocrinology, Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust.
1st round scoring
Once the entry deadline has been reached, the judges will be invited to access the appropriate submissions for their judging group via the online entry portal.
Each judge will review and score the entries based on the criteria specific to that category.
Group judging day
On Tuesday 6 September the judges will meet in their groups to compare first round scores and discuss entries within their specific categories in detail. Following rigorous discussion, the judges identify the results for their categories.
Judging criteria
While scoring entries the judges will allocate marks according to the specific criteria defined for each category. Details of these can be found in the individual category descriptions and on the online entry system qicdiabetes.awardsplatform.com. Please ensure that you refer to these when writing your submission to ensure you are fully aware of what specific information the judges will be looking for and how they will be scoring.
Please carefully consider one category only to submit your project to, there will be no category reallocation by the judges.