Daffodil Standards Awards for End of Life Care – GPs please come forward

The UK is an ageing nation, and it is estimated that 160,000 more people in England and Wales will need palliative care by 2040. GPs are delivering this compassionate and expert care to their patients every day - and your efforts deserve to be recognised.

The Daffodil Standards Awards - a joint project between the College and the UK's leading end of life charity Marie Curie - will be celebrating the exceptional end-of-life care delivered by practices, GPs and their teams at the forthcoming RCGP Annual Conference at the ICC Wales, Newport, 9-10 October 2025.

Closing date for entries is 1 September on a range of six categories highlighting excellent palliative care, including Practice of the Year, GP of the Year, and GP Registrar of the Year.

The Awards are free to enter for GP practices – you simply have to submit a written nomination detailing your chosen category and why you deserve to win. The winners of each category will receive free entry to the annual conference where your achievements will be recognised in a special celebration.

Submissions don't have to be the most radical, groundbreaking palliative care initiatives. They could be a simple change in the way your practice works such as ensuring there's a robust framework in place for making contact with families of patients who have died.

What we're looking for is the personal touch, where GPs and other members of the practice team have made changes relevant to your patients, showing commitment to caring for those nearing the end of their life.

The value of palliative care for patients and their families cannot not be understated. It requires versatility, sensitivity and compassion, drawing on knowledge from all aspects of a patient's medical history and their lived experience. It requires deep medical understanding and inter-personal skills.

GPs and practice teams are brilliant at this and that’s why the Daffodil Standards Awards are so important: they're a chance to show your team’s skills, dedication and passion to end-of-life care, how you go above and beyond for your patients as they come to the end of their lives, and potentially inspire others to similar levels of excellence.

The Daffodil Standards Awards are our way of saying thank you – but we need you to come forward and tell us more about what you’re doing and achieving in this important area of our work.

Please self-nominate or nominate others before the deadline of 1 September.

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