What do you need to do to enter the Pharmacy Excellence Awards?
To enter the Pharmacy Excellence Awards you need to prepare your submission paper, complete the online entry form and upload your paper by March 31 2025.
Entries must be submitted online. Each written entry must be no more than 1,500 words in English (12 point type, single line spacing) saved in PDF format (10MB maximum file size), uploaded from your desktop to the Awards website, when prompted by the Entry Form. All entries should be uploaded following the template sections listed below. The Judges will automatically mark lower any entries exceeding the word count. At the same time, the judges will appreciate the conciseness of an entry. There is no need to use the full word count. Please adhere to these basic rules of entry, together with any other specific criteria described below.
Photographs and video material may be made available for the judges to view, either upload these through the online entry form at time of submission or upload them to YouTube or Vimeo. You will need to include in your submission a link to YouTube or Vimeo, where the judges can look at any additional visual material. Do not upload a photo file larger than 5MB with your entry form as it will be rejected. Thumbnail images of illustrative material can be embedded in your written submission, if they help the judges understand your entry, but the judges will want to see larger reference images – one of which must be uploaded with your entry form.
Will the information you provide be kept safe and confidential?
All entries are stored safely in a secure environment, accessed only by the Awards’ organising team. The judges each have to sign a confidentiality/non-disclosure letter in advance of the judging and the organisers undertake to keep securely any information marked as “not for publication”.
Eligibility
Except where indicated, submissions should relate to the period from Octoberber 1 2023 – February 28 2025.
Template guide
Your completed entry form and your written entry are the basis on which each entry will be voted for by the judges and shortlisted. Your written document should show how your pharmacy, programme, staff/team, initiative, product, service or campaign or website met its aims, employed creative, innovative techniques, made an impact and was enjoyed by customers, and delivered engagement, uptake, satisfaction and a return on investment, thus giving the judges a view as to effectiveness. At the beginning of your document the following information must be listed:
- Category entered
- Title of entry
- URL
- Pharmacy, pharmacy group, supplier company or brand
- Name of company making the entry (if different)
- Type of company about which the entry is written (e.g. pharmacy, pharmaceutical company, device manufacturer, etc)
- Relevant URL for access to supporting visual material or other data. (Links to Vimeo/Youtube, etc)
The Judges will need to access your business website. (Please note that the website must remain live or be accessible in an archive for the judges to access until August 31 2025).
Within your submission document please use the following as sub-headings under which you clearly enter your information, depending on the type of category you are entering:
- Aims for pharmacy, programme, staff/team, initiative, product or service
- Strategy employed and implementation
- Creativity, innovation or technology applied
- Feedback summary from customers and/or users, or staff/team
- Outcome, including formal evaluation of results, ROI, etc, or in the case of a mobile app, the take up by the public or target audience, all to provide a measure of effectiveness
Support material
If you wish to provide additional support material (for instance if there has been marketing collateral or video work associated with your campaign) please provide a link to YouTube or Vimeo, where the judges can view your material.
The judges will want to feel fully informed about your pharmacy and activities, so please include whatever you feel is appropriate and relevant for your entry. If an entry is entered into more than one category, please indicate this clearly, but remember you need to remind the judges of the micro site URL for the support material, each time you enter.
It is important that you include as many visuals as you can to illustrate content and its impact. The judges don’t want massive photos, but they’d rather have that than small thumbnail images that are too small to be useful. Bottom line: making it easy for our judging panel to see and understand what you did will only help. Including thumbnail images in your written submission is a good idea, but tiny embedded images will not be enough for the judges. Please always provide the full size images, too.