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The John Horder Awards – Deadline for Submission
Wednesday 31 July at 5:00 pm
Team Awards
2024 Applications - Deadline Wednesday 31st July 2024
In memory of the contribution by the late Dr John Horder to general practice and interprofessional education.
The 2024 Royal Society of Medicine and Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education
John Horder Practitioner Team Award
Applications should be sent to: [email protected]
Closing Date: Wednesday 31st July 2024
This award is open for qualified practitioners working in health and social care teams and or practitioner educator teams working in Higher Education Institutions. We particularly welcome teams from primary health care or community care.
Please read below about the work of John Horder.
1. Introduction
The General Practice with Primary Health Care Section Council, of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) and The Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE) will jointly present this annual award to the winning team who can demonstrate outstanding principles of collaborative working.
2. The award
Submissions will be assessed by representatives from both the RSM and CAIPE organisations. Candidates will not be limited to the UK but the documentation should be completed in English. The award will consist of a Certificate of Achievement and a prize of £600. The assessment panel will only present an award in any year when the quality is deemed to reach the expected standard.
3. Submission
The submitting team is asked to produce one document in font size 12 with reference to supporting literature consisting of:
• A factual and descriptive report on all or part of their interprofessional working being presented for consideration.
• Evidence demonstrating how the work presented fulfils the principles of interprofessional working across disciplines and professions. (For further details see below).
• The preparation and presentation of each submission should anticipate further collaborative working with definite outcomes designed to improve patient care.
The above three areas form the basis for the assessment criteria to award the prize.
There is a limit of 4,000 words excluding references and headings.
The award will be presented at the RSM Primary Care Update event on Thursday 26th September 2024. Winning entries are expected to be present to present their work at the RSM in London for the late afternoon conference section.
4. The principles of collaborative working - guidelines and marking criteria
Candidates will need to provide evidence that they applied the following principles of collaborative working:
i. Focus on the needs of individuals, families and communities to improve their quality of care, health outcomes and wellbeing in the practice environment.
ii. Respect individuality, difference and diversity within and between the professions and all with whom they learned and worked.
iii. Enable the professions involved to learn with, from and about each other to optimise exchange of experience and expertise.
iv. Demonstrate collaboration at the heart of all processes.
v. Enable each profession to improve its practice to complement that of others.
vi. Improve outcomes for individuals, families and communities.
vii. Enhance team and individual morale and motivation and developed effective interprofessional working relationships.
viii. Reflect on the process and learned from the experience, demonstrating how this can inform further practice.
The closing date for applications will be Wednesday 31st July 2024.
John Horder Student Team Award
Applications should be sent to: [email protected]
Closing Date: Wednesday 31st July 2024
This award is open to pre-registration (undergraduate) or post-qualified student teams in health and social care professional training. The award welcomes interprofessional work in primary care.
Please read below about the work of John Horder.
1. Introduction
This annual essay award will be offered to a student team who have been involved with interprofessional learning or working. The team should present their experience and learning achieved in the form of a reflective essay. The award is offered jointly by The Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE) and the General Practice with Primary Heath Care Section of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM).
2. Background
The John Horder Student Team Award will be given annually to a student team who has participated in learning within the community or a hospital setting and can demonstrate outstanding principles of collaborative working.
3. The award
The annual award will be offered to a student team from all health and social care professions who have participated in interprofessional learning in practice. The purpose of the award is to highlight the importance of interprofessional working and learning.
The submission will be assessed by representatives from both CAIPE and the RSM. Candidates should not be limited to the UK but the documentation should be completed in English. The award consists of a Certificate of Achievement and a prize of £600.
4. Submission
The submitting students are asked to produce an essay in font size 12 entitled: ‘Describe and discuss an example of interprofessional working or learning with which they have been involved.’
There is a limit of 4,000 words excluding references and headings.
The award will be presented at the RSM Primary Care Update event on Thursday 26th September 2024.
5. The principles of collaborative working - guidelines and marking criteria
Candidates will need to provide evidence that they applied the following principles of collaborative working:
i. Focus on the needs of individuals, families and communities to improve their quality of care, health outcomes and wellbeing in the practice environment.
ii. Respect individuality, difference and diversity within and between the professions and all with whom they learned and worked.
iii. Enable the professions involved to learn with, from and about each other to optimise exchange of experience and expertise.
iv. Demonstrate collaboration at the heart of all processes.
v. Enable each profession to improve its practice to complement that of others.
vi. Improve outcomes for individuals, families and communities.
vii. Enhance team and individual morale and motivation and developed effective interprofessional working relationships.
viii. Reflect on the process and learned from the experience, demonstrating how this can inform further practice.
The closing date for applications will be Wednesday 31st July 2024.
Notes on the lifework of John Horder, CBE. FRCGP
John Horder pioneered primary care to critical acclaim as senior partner in the Kentish Town General Practice in North London establishing and providing support and development for a 28 strong multidisciplinary primary health care team. He is credited with establishing General Practice as a respected discipline within medicine. With others he founded the Royal College of General Practitioners (as it became) and served as its president from 1979 – 82. He was involved in developing both postgraduate and undergraduate education in General Practice and was appointed Visiting Professor of General Practice at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in 1984.He was President of the Section of General Practice of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1967/8 and was Senior Vice President of the RSM in 1988/9.
John was an Adviser to the WHO and a fellow at The King’s Fund. In addition he was appointed a Wolfson Travelling Fellow of the Royal Society and in this role travelled widely throughout Europe and led the Leeuwenhorst Group collaborating with like-minded doctors to promote primary care internationally.
Cardiac problems obliged him to retire from general practice in 1981. Recovering well, John looked for new opportunities and CAIPE was one. Anne Loxley (social work teacher), Michael Carmi (GP) and Valerie Packer (health visitor) who had been pioneering interprofessional short courses at the Middlesex Polytechnic seized the opportunity. They invited John to chair the planning group for the national body about which they had dreamt. He agreed readily, chairing the committee, soliciting funds and convening conferences leading to the launch in 1987 of “The National Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education in Primary Health Care” (as CAIPE was called in its early years), becoming its first chair and later president.
CAIPE presented John with the opportunity to paint the ideals that had inspired his work in Kentish Town on a broader canvas. For him shared learning between professions was practice based teamwork augmented by conferences and workshops, reflecting and reinforcing similar developments then taking hold throughout the UK. His perception broadened as “interprofessional education” (the term promoted by CAIPE enshrined in its title) spread beyond primary care laying foundations for teamwork and collaborative practice in undergraduate studies in universities. He valued perspectives introduced by colleagues from other disciplines and professions, but held fast to practice as the bedrock.
More than a doctor, John was a talented water colourist, an accomplished organist and devoted family man supported by Elizabeth, his wife and GP partner. Espousing holistic care, wholeness was exemplified in his very being. Candour about his recurrent depression helps to explain his particular interest in mental health and his identification with the suffering of others.
For his obituarist in The Times (20/06/2012), John “was gentle and softly spoken but this belied his quite determination. Teaching by example and leading by persuasion were always his preferred methods. He never instructed or insisted, and he had a talent for listening. He was accessible and approachable and inspired all who knew him with the breadth of his knowledge, wisdom, and personal example.”