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This document provides you with some background on the Advisory Committee on Clinical Impact Awards (ACCIA), what your role as a sub-committee member would involve and how to apply.

Background

National Clinical Impact Awards (NCIAs) recognise and reward consultant doctors and dentists who provide clear evidence of clinical impact, demonstrating achievements that are significantly over and above their job plan and what they would normally be expected to deliver in their roles. Consultants must put themselves forward for an award in competition with their peers.

The awards are held by the successful applicants for 5 years and have an annual, non-pensionable value of 拢10,000 (N0),聽拢20,000聽(N1), 拢30,000 (N2) or 拢40,000 (N3).

ACCIA is the independent public body responsible for the operation of the National Clinical Impact Awards scheme in England and Wales. It advises Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) ministers and the Welsh Government on the granting of new awards.

The advisory committee has 2 senior officers: Dr Vinay Patroe, our chair, and Prof Kevin Davies, our medical director. They are supported by a small secretariat embedded within DHSC.

Sub-committees

The scheme would not be able to operate without the invaluable work of our 16 scoring sub-committees, each of which is made up of voluntary scorers. These volunteers are an essential part of a successful NCIA competition and play an important role in allowing us to reward some of the NHS鈥� most highly performing consultant doctors, dentists and academic GPs for their impactful work.

Scorers have backgrounds in medicine, dentistry and a variety of other professions, including experience in human resources, finance and organisational management. They understand the NHS and represent the lay and patient perspective.

Scoring panels can vary year on year due to a variety of reasons, including to address any conflict of interest and to balance sub-committees鈥� diversity and workload.

Balancing of sub-committees involves moving some scorers from their home region to score in another committee. This exercise enables us to ensure every committee is representative in terms of gender and ethnicity. Moving scorers between regions has many benefits as they can bring fresh perspectives, in the same way as an external examining model would.

We do, however, try to ensure that there are members scoring applications from their home region as they may better understand the significance of the evidence presented than a central national panel would. This regional link encourages our scorers to take ownership of the scoring process.

ACCIA sub-committees are made up of:

• professional members. Practising consultants (local and national award holders are welcomed) who can bring their professional and subject specific knowledge to committees

• employer members. Managers from NHS organisations or arm鈥檚 length bodies (ALBs) who can represent the employer鈥檚 perspective and assess impact on the NHS using their expertise

• lay members. Any person with informed lay involvement in healthcare or experience from patients鈥� perspectives (including retired NHS staff), who will use their knowledge about the workings of the NHS to provide an objective view

Members are appointed not as representatives of any organisation or clinical specialty, but as individuals who use their background knowledge and experience to assess applications in a fair, transparent and equitable manner.

Each sub-committee is led by a chair (a lay member) and a medical vice-chair (a professional member) drawn from its membership.

Your role as a member

Your core role as a sub-committee member would be to score the applications for new NCIAs from consultants, dentists and academic GPs employed within the sub-committee region.

Members log on to our online application and scoring system to assess the evidence presented on each application, against our scoring framework, before submitting their scores. Taking all the scores for each application, the online system then calculates each applicant鈥檚 final score and their standing within the region.

Scoring takes place shortly after the closing date for applications. Sub-committee members normally have 6 weeks to submit their scores. Applications usually open around March or April. The number of applications to score varies regionally and year to year, but the average will be around 70. We estimate that scoring would take around 30 minutes per application.

Following scoring, you would then be invited to attend a sub-committee meeting. This meeting will be attended by the national chair and medical director to discuss provisionally successful applications further and to consider any concerns by your scoring region. Sub-committee meetings usually take place between June and November.

Sub-committee meetings usually take less than 3 hours. They will normally take place within the sub-committee region (or in the DHSC Victoria Street office for the London sub-committees) or virtually on Microsoft Teams. Wherever possible we try not to organise any meetings during the school summer holidays.

Although this role is unpaid, lay members are able to claim travel and expenses at set rates depending on the number of applications scored.

Benefits of becoming an ACCIA sub-committee member

By joining an ACCIA sub-committee, you will contribute to the outcome of the prestigious national Clinical Impact Awards competition. ACCIA rewards consultant achievements in areas such as developing and delivering high quality services, leadership, research, innovation, teaching and training - activities that are of incalculable benefit to the NHS and that should be encouraged.

Through scoring applications, you will learn first-hand about new and exemplary research, teaching and delivery that is being carried out in your region and nationally. You will read about the work of some of the most prominent clinicians in the country.

You will also gain valuable insight into the workings of the NCIAs. This is particularly helpful for employer members, who can feed back general advice on applications to their consultant body, although no member may coach individual applicants or review forms. From time to time, we may also take advantage of your insight, giving you opportunities to comment upon the NCIA process and to suggest changes to it.

Our members also enjoy the exchange of views at the scoring meetings, which often examine the challenges faced by professionals and their peers. At the same time these exchanges provide opportunities to interrogate the value of the evidence presented to the NHS and ultimately to the public. Another important benefit of these meetings is that they are a chance to make links with experts from across your region.

Induction and training

If you become a sub-committee member, we will provide you with:

• training delivered by our medical director and chair on how to assess and score applications, including a live scoring exercise
• a comprehensive guide on how to score in line with our assessment framework
• a login to our online workspace for sub-committee members
• guides to our browser-based scoring system to help you to navigate and become familiar with how to use our portal
• a one-to-one support session for the online tools (upon request)

How to apply

We hope you are interested in joining us. If so, please complete the application form and email it to [email protected].

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at [email protected] or on 020 7972 4608.

Annex - committees list

The 13 regional聽ACCIA聽sub-committees in England are:聽

• Cheshire and Mersey
• East of England
• East Midlands
• London North East
• London North West
• London South
• North East
• North West
• South
• South East
• South West
• West Midlands
• Yorkshire and Humber

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• DHSC听补苍诲 ALBs
• assessing the highest-scoring regional applicants for聽N3聽awards (N3)
• assessing applications for which the initial scores are tied at cut-off points or where governance queries arise - the National Reserve Sub-committee (NRES)

Wales has its own sub-committee which considers聽N0聽to聽N3聽awards. Wales does not operate an聽NRES听辫谤辞肠别蝉蝉.