ACCIA

NCIA 2025 Awards Round

This is the expected timetable for the 2025 national awards round. The Advisory Committee on Clinical Impact Awards will review this timetable regularly and minor changes may be made.

1 April 2025 to 5pm on 27 May 2025 - applications open
30 May to 14 July 2025 - first round scoring
August to October 2025 - national 3 (N3) scoring
July to November 2025 - governance review
September to October 2025 - National Reserve Sub-committee (NRES) scoring
End of November 2025 - main committee finalisation of recommendations
December 2025 to January 2026 - recommendations to and sign-off by ministers
January to February 2026 - notifications sent to successful applicants and finance processes initiated to pay awards
January to February 2026 - appeals window open

Helpful links:

Clinical Impact Awards – applicants’ guide - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clinical-impact-awards-2025-applicants-guide
Clinical Impact Awards - Clinical Impact Awards 2025: employers' guide
Clinical Impact Awards – application timetable - Clinical Impact Awards 2025: application timetable
Clinical Impact Awards - Eligibility - Eligibility for a national Clinical Impact Award
Advisory Committee on Clinical Impact Awards - GOV.UK

Click here for applicant information

BAHNO wishes to encourage all members to consider whether they would like to apply.

BAHNO’s role in NCIAs

Following changes to the ACCIA application process, BAHNO (as a Member Organisation (MO)) will no longer provide citations and rankings to a selected number of applicants.

This means that applicants will no longer be able to choose to request support from MOs such as BAHNO (previously known as National Nominating Organisations (NNOs)).

BAHNO will however still play an important role in supporting members across our specialty groups and areas of practice to apply for awards.