Health Foundation project wins Charity Times award

The Health Foundation along with the Brain Tumour Charity, the University of Nottingham and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health won the Charity Times Cross-sector partnership of the year award at a ceremony on 16 October 2013.

Every year the Charity Times selects the very best from the sector and honours excellence in several categories. The HeadSmart campaign achieved this and was successful in raising awareness of brain tumours in children among doctors. The judges praised HeadSmart as 'an outstanding partnership making a real impact through crucial early diagnosis of brain tumours: it was a thoroughly researched, well-planned and innovative project to engage professionals as well as raise public awareness'.

The HeadSmart campaign was part of the Health Foundation’s Closing the Gap through Clinical Communities programme. ‘We are delighted and proud to have been part of such an ambitious and successful programme of work, the resultant HeadSmart campaign has received Europe wide recognition and is a testament to the hard work of all partners involved’ said Dr Jo Bibby, Director of Strategy at the Health Foundation.