Apply for an RCVS Knowledge Quality Improvement Award

Use this online application form to apply for one of our RCVS Knowledge Quality Improvement Awards.

About the awards

You can find out more about the different award categories here.

How to apply

You can submit your application using the form below.

Find out more about what we’re looking for from your application.

If you wish to prepare your application before submitting, you can view the sections of the form here.

Before you begin your application, please:

make sure you have read the terms and conditions
only submit one form for each project
anonymise your application. This includes removing or obscuring organisation names, logos, and brand colours,  job titles or role descriptions unique to your organisation, and any other identifiable information.

Applications will close in January 2027.

Email awards@rcvsknowledge.org with any questions.

Submit your application

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Your details

Project title(Required)

Practice name(Required)

Practice address(Required)

Street Address Address Line 2 Town/city Postcode

Practice telephone number(Required)

Practice representative (i.e. your name)(Required)

Postnominals (if applicable) e.g. MRCVS, RVN, BSc

Your email(Required)

Confirm email(Required)

If you were to be awarded (champion, second or third place only), how many celebratory badges for the team would be required?(Required)

Please enter a number from 1 to 30.

Your project

Please select the category for your application (only one category may be chosen per project)(Required)

Please note that we may assign your application to a different category if it is more appropriate.

Please provide a short summary of your project (approximately 100 words)(Required)

What was the focus of your QI project and why was it chosen? (approximately 250 words)(Required)

You may wish to include: The problem your project addresses, why this problem is important (e.g. impact, frequency) and why your team was well placed to address it.

How did you identify the specific issues to address and what would “better” look like? (approximately 250 words)(Required)

You may wish to include: Evidence used (e.g. guidelines, research, local data), insights from practice (e.g. meetings, observations, feedback), baseline data or current performance and what improvement you planned to achieve.

How did you aim to do this? (approximately 250 words)(Required)

You may wish to include: A SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound) aim, and for the antimicrobial stewardship category, how the practice applied the plan, prevent, protect framework.

How did you implement and evaluate the changes? (approximately 250 words)(Required)

You may wish to include: Key actions taken to introduce change(s), how data was collected and recorded and how you assessed impact (including unintended effects).

What was the overall impact of your project and what did you learn? (approximately 500 words)(Required)

You may wish to include: Evidence of outcomes (e.g. data, feedback, trends), what happened as a result of your findings (e.g. adopted, adapted, abandoned), sustaining the changes or next steps and key learning and reflections.

Is there anything else you would like to tell us about your project?

Please upload any figures, graphs or tables you wish to include in your application (maximum of three), but please ensure you describe the changes you have seen throughout the above sections

Drop files here or

Max. file size: 100 MB, Max. files: 3.

Please provide a list of references used to inform your QI project