The BTS Nursing and Allied Health Award will be presented at each congress to the best clinical or scientific paper presented at the Annual Congress of the British Transplantation Society by a nurse or allied health professional (AHP)

Call for submissions takes place between mid-September to late November, annually. Winning author/s will be notified by end of December.

Candidates for the award must be members of the Society prior to abstract submission, and indicate that they are eligible for the BTS Nursing or Allied Health Professional Prize at the time of abstract submission.

The work must be presented by the candidate and must be original and innovative and have been performed largely or entirely within the United Kingdom. The candidate must have contributed significantly to the work which may be on any aspect of organ donation or transplantation or related fields.

Eligible submissions will include both oral and poster presentations. Submission must be made with the consent of all co-authors, who in doing so, provide confirmation that the rules of the submission have been fulfilled.

Candidates for the award will be limited to the first author of the submitted paper. In the rare event that the first author cannot present the paper, it must be withdrawn from the competition although the work may be presented by another author.

Past winners of the BTS Nursing and Allied Health Award cannot apply for it.

The judging panel will be Chaired and appointed by the Co-Chairs of the Chapter of Nurses, to include appropriate AHP representatives from the Society and/or its affiliated organisations.  In the event that one or more of the Co-Chairs has a conflict of interest with a candidate who has entered the competition, the panel will be chaired/co-chaired and appointed by a member of the Executive Committee of the Society.

The Award will consist of a certificate, presented during the meeting/Congress at which the paper is given and £100.