The 2013 Bevan Prize for Health and Wellbeing

The inaugural Bevan Prize for Health and Wellbeing was awarded in July 2013.

Our 2013 panel of judges comprised Prof Sir Mansel Aylward (Chair, Public Health Wales, Chair of the Welsh Government’s independent Bevan Commission, former UK and US government adviser and eminent clinician), author journalist and former Chair of the Aneurin Bevan Society – Geoffrey Goodman and Jaselle Williams, Secretary of the Society, a Bevan Foundation trustee and Bevan’s great-niece.

A wide range of nominations were received, reflecting a geographic spread and a diversity of organisations and individuals. Nominations were received from London, south Wales, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Manchester, Yorkshire, Tyneside and elsewhere in England and Wales. Nominations were received for eminent clinicians, NHS campaigners, nursing staff, health and care pioneers, civil servants, NHS clinical teams, voluntary organisations, hospices, community health initiatives and health charities.

The Prize was marketed across the UK in the press and online, with a number of MPs, charities and local groups using their websites to promote the Prize in their areas.

Prize Winners

Individual: Cecilia Anim – a clinical nurse specialist in women’s sexual health in London and deputy president of the Royal College of Nurses, the first black woman elected to the RCN council and a prominent NHS campaigner

Organisation: South Tyneside-based WHiST – a voluntary organisation offering walk-in health services (and other services) to hard-to-reach women suffering abuse, financial hardship and mental illness

Lifetime Contribution : GP, writer and campaigner Dr Julian Tudor Hart, whose pioneering work in the Afan Valley in south Wales for decades from the 1960s dramatically improved health outcomes in the community and whose groundbreaking innovations in general practice are now in widespread use.

The Prize was marketed across the UK in the press and online, with a number of MPs, charities and local groups using their websites to promote the Prize in their areas.

The Awards Ceremony

The Prizes were awarded at an inspiring event in Portcullis House, Westminster with attendees from across the UK, reflecting the breadth of nominations, as well as Parliamentarians from across the political spectrum, representatives of the Royal Colleges and other professional bodies, members of the medical profession and NHS staff, union officials, representatives of charities, voluntary organisations and NGOs, and journalists. Awards were presented by crossbench peer and oncologist Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, Christina McAnea (Head of Health, UNISON) and Jaselle Williams.