Parkinson's UK Excellence Network Awards: enter now
All of the information you need to enter yourself or your service for an Excellence Network Award.
Congratulations! You've taken your first step towards an Excellence Network Award.
This short video will tell you what you need to know to get started with your entry, and the routes that entries will take through this 2-stage entry process.
Video length: 6 minutes and 30 seconds.
Categories for entry by health or care professionals or services:
- Innovation in practice
- Sharing learning and education
- Community support
- Mali Jenkins (for services designed with people with Parkinson's).
Our entry form is hosted on Oxford Abstracts. You'll need to create an account or sign in to your existing account if you have one to submit your entry.
You can submit entries until 5pm on Friday 10 October 2025.
Tips for your entry
Tell us about your awards entry initiative or project in a short abstract. Show us how your intervention or project brings the award and general judging criteria to life.
Word limit
The total word limit is 500. This includes the title, abstract body, and references.
People from across the Parkinson's community, including health and care professionals and people with Parkinson's, will be judging your entry. Write your abstract in a way that anyone could understand.
Our tips:
- Focus on the main message of your initiative or project.
- Write in plain English and avoid jargon and unnecessary abbreviations, technical terms or acronyms. If you have to include them, give a short explanation.
- Keep sentences short. Under 25 words is ideal.
Use 'Parkinson’s' in your abstract, not 'Parkinson’s disease'. 'PD' shouldn't be used as an abbreviation.
You can enter multiple co-authors as well as the lead author.
Write your abstract using these headings:
- Objective: clearly and concisely describe what your initiative or project was trying to address, and how it relates to the relevant award criteria.
- Intervention: the key elements of your initiative or project, including who and what was involved and how, and the timescales.
- Outcomes and next steps: what was the main outcome of your initiative or project? What did you learn, how did you share this with others, and what are your next steps?
- References: you can include a maximum of 2 references in the body text. If you're invited to stage 2, you can include any other references on your e-poster. Please use the Vancouver style of referencing.
Submit your abstract using the Oxford Abstracts submission system. You'll need to sign up to the Oxford Abstracts platform and create a password.
Bonus tip: draft your abstract in a document first, then copy and paste it into the Oxford Abstracts system.
Watch the guidance video on YouTube and consider how your entry or nomination meets the criteria. You can watch the guidance video on YouTube.
Our judges will also judge entries against these general criteria:
- Demonstration of a clear link between the issue, intervention and impact.
- Evidence of tangible benefits for people with Parkinson’s or their loved ones. The judging panel will appreciate entries that reference high-quality qualitative and quantitative evidence.
- Evidence that you embedded the needs and input of people with Parkinson’s in the development and implementation of the project, service or initiative.
- Evidence that you collaborated and shared with others through networking, delivering learning, developing tools or joint working.
Got questions about your entry? Contact us at [email protected].
Nominate someone for an Excellence Network Award
Health and care professionals can nominate colleagues for an award. People with Parkinson's, their families and friends can nominate people from their health or care teams.