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Awards

Dr Nigel Masters receiving the GP Enterprise Award from Health Minister Stephen Ladyman

In short

Dr Nigel Masters was the overall winner of the GP Enterprise Awards 2004 for adding clinical and safety indications to repeat prescriptions. Clinical indications also won the BUPA Communication Award in 2005 and a Judges Commendation in the South East NHS Innovations Awards in 2006.

Clinical indications have also been recognised with a number of other important awards.

Dr Nigel Masters receiving the GP Enterprise Award from Health Minister Stephen Ladyman

NHS to pick up prize-winning idea

Buckinghamshire GP Dr Nigel Masters was the overall winner of the GP Enterprise Awards 2004, and went to the House of Commons to collect his £7,000 prize from Health Minister Stephen Ladyman. Dr Masters had already received £3,000, along with five other category winners. His idea of adding clinical and safety indications to repeat prescriptions has so impressed ministers that it could now be rolled out across the UK.

More Awards

On the 11 November 2005 Sir Graham Catto President of the General Medical Council presented Clinical Indications with the BUPA Communication Award. In 2005 Clinical Indications was also a finalist in the Medical Futures competition (Patient Safety category) and also the Guidelines in Practice Awards (Medicines Management Category). In 2006 Clinical indications was given a Judges Commendation in the IT/Knowledge Management Category for the South East NHS Innovations Awards.

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He was the overall winner of the GP Enterprise Awards 2004, having won its Risk Management section, and collected his £7,000 prize at the House of Commons from Health Minister Stephen Ladyman (read what the Minister said).

Sir Graham Catto, President of the General Medical Council, on 11 November 2005. The GMC’s prescribing guidance now advises prescribers to consider including clinical indications.

In 2005 it was a finalist in the Medical Futures competition (Patient Safety category) and the Guidelines in Practice Awards (Medicines Management category). In 2006 it received a Judges Commendation in the IT/Knowledge Management category of the South East NHS Innovations Awards.

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Read what the judges and the Health Minister said.

The quotes include the Health Minister, the President of the Royal College of General Practitioners and the BUPA Foundation. Writing about clinical indications? See the press information.

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Dr Nigel Masters with a patient at Highfield Surgery

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