Since its launch in 2009, the Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards have become a forum for sharing and identifying the world’s most effective strategies in healthcare engagement.

Previous winners have included initiatives and people in pharmaceutical companies, NGOs, hospitals, television broadcasters and social networks.

What are we looking for?

The 3rd Annual Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards will recognise the strategies, initiatives and people that have achieved the most effective outcomes in health or healthcare during 2011. Any channel, any region, any area of healthcare. If it’s engaging people and achieving health or healthcare outcomes, it’s eligible.

We’re looking for innovation; new ideas that others can learn from. But not for its own sake – we would be likely to rank a low-tech strategy that’s achieving great outcomes higher than a shiny digital campaign that’s not making a difference.

We’ll include initiatives that have been on our radar over the course of 2011 in the nominations, but we want to hear from you: what have you seen, or been involved in, that we should celebrate? Who is behind the most effective healthcare engagement strategies of 2011?

Why enter?

A Healthcare Engagement Strategy award means genuine recognition for the winner. But more than that, the winning strategies provide a legacy of great practice for others to learn from. Ideas and strategies highlighted in previous years’ awards have inspired others to  innovate in the months and years that follow. The heart of the Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards is to see continually-improving engagement that changes lives.