Published 3 April 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b1428
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b1428

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Promoting hand washing, stroke prevention, and tobacco control are recognised at BMJ Group award ceremony

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The best in medicine and health care was celebrated in London on 2 April, when 10 exceptional individuals and teams won BMJ Group awards in the inaugural year of the competition to reward excellence.

Identifying best practice—a familiar subject to BMJ readers—was the theme of the evening, which was cosponsored by the Health Foundation, an independent charity that works to improve the quality of health care in the United Kingdom and beyond. Fiona Godlee, editor of the BMJ, said it had been heartening to receive so many impressive nominations and to learn that so much was happening to promote excellence in health care.

Martin Marshall, the Health Foundation’s director of clinical quality, said that he saw the awards as an opportunity to "inspire, motivate, and support people in health care to achieve the highest possible quality." The foundation was proud to sponsor the awards, said Professor Marshall. "They are . . . [Full text of this article]

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