William Rathbone X Award & Lecture
9 May 2025
We will be holding the 2025 William Rathbone X Annual Lecture and Award Presentation in London on Friday 9 May 2025.
Lecture
We are delighted to welcome Professor Olga Yakusheva as this year’s William Rathbone X annual lecturer. A leading expert in health economics, she has dedicated much of her work to highlighting the financial impact of nursing and its contribution to better outcomes for individuals, organisations, and society.
This lecture will inspire nurses to confidently express their economic value and encourage senior leaders to strengthen the case for investing in nursing. Most importantly, Professor Yakusheva will share how greater nursing resources can be achieved within existing budgets.
Programme
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Award
The QICN recognises the necessity of excellent leadership at a strategic level in the delivery of nursing care in the community. For this reason, in 2023 we created The William Rathbone X Annual Award for Excellence in the Executive Nurse Leadership of Community Nursing Services. The Award is named in memory of an outstanding former member of the QICN’s Council, William Rathbone X, and has been generously funded by his family.
The Award gives national recognition of the impact of strategic nursing leadership in the delivery of excellent community nursing services.
Further information about the award can be found here.
Eligibility & Nominations
Nurses from not-for-profit providers of NHS-funded community health services in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland are eligible. This includes integrated community and Mental Health trusts, hospital-community trusts, local government, and social care.
Chief Nurses/Directors of Nursing can be nominated by Chief Executives of provider organisations. Nominators are asked to keep their nominations confidential. Nominations will be assessed by a panel including QICN staff and trustees, and external assessors.
Nurses in commissioning bodies, integrated care boards, central government, or single-unit providers (e.g., individual nursing homes or hospices) are not eligible.
Nominations must demonstrate:
- Contributions to national community nursing or the wider care-at-home sector
- Excellence in service delivery
- Supporting evidence (e.g., CQC ratings, employee feedback, policy influence, network participation)
For eligibility queries, please email us: mail@qicn.org.uk .
How to Nominate your Executive Nurse Leader
Applications are now open! Nominations should be made by completing the online form.
The deadline for nominations is: Tuesday 8 April 2025.
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