Awards and grants

Clinical Excellence Awards are given by the Department of Health to recognise and reward the exceptional contributions of individual National Health Service Consultants, over and above those normally expected.  Consultant who apply for CEAs have to show commitment to achieving a high quality of care to patients and to the continuous improvement of the National Health Service. The award is in addition to the annual salary.

If you want to discuss this with someone, please call Drusilla Wieloch on 020 7772 6269 or e-mail her on dwieloch@rcog.org.uk.

The subject or subjects of the lectures must be either obstetrics or gynaecology, or closely related thereto. In the selection of the lecturers, preference will be given to lectures based on original work, particularly with regard to the morphology, physiology and pathology of the female reproductive organs but this need not be considered an absolute condition of the appointments, particularly if the alternative be a problem connected with malignant neoplastic disease.

1st Prize - £1000    2nd Prize - £500
The Peter Huntingford Memorial Prize has been endowed by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service to mark the late Professor Peter Huntingford’s contribution to obstetrics and gynaecology.

Through the generosity of the late Mr John Lawson FRCOG, the Council of the College is able to offer an annual prize of £150 known as the John Lawson Prize. Mr Lawson was a former Director of Postgraduate Studies and Vice President of the College. He was also a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Ibadan, Nigeria, and was well renowned for his work in the developing countries, particularly in Africa.

1st Prize - £400 2nd Prize - £200

As a result of a kind and generous bequest, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is able to offer two prizes, known as the Herbert Erik Reiss Memorial Prizes, for a Case History project in Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

1st Prize £500  2nd Prize £250  3rd Prize £150

Three prizes will be awarded to students showing the greatest understanding of a clinical problem in obstetrics and gynaecology.

The initial funding was provided in 1990 by the American Gynecological Club and the Gynaecological Visiting Society of Great Britain and Ireland. The sum awarded will be up to a maximum of £500, to meet travel costs and incidental expenses and may be awarded even though other financial assistance has been obtained.

This annual travelling scholarship in obstetrics and gynaecology has been endowed by a generous gift from the Bernhard Baron Charitable Trust. The scholarship, which is open to any Fellow or Member of the College, is intended to provide funds, up to a maximum of £6,000, for short-term travel to expand the applicant’s knowledge in areas in which he or she already has experience.

This annual travelling fellowship was generously endowed by the late Dr Thomas Watts Eden. It is open to medical graduates of not less than two years’ standing of any approved university (whether members of the College or not). Its purpose is to enable the holder to visit, for a specified period of time, another department(s) of obstetrics and gynaecology or of closely related disciplines where the applicant may gain additional knowledge and experience in the pursuit of a specific research project in which he or she is currently engaged. The sum awarded will be up to a maximum of £5,000 according to the project to be undertaken and the travelling expenses involved.

The organising Committee of the 7th World Congress of Endometriosis through a generous donation established the Endometriosis Millennium Fund, to be administered by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

The object of the fund is to stimulate and encourage research, clinical or laboratory based, in the field of endometriosis, or to encourage clinicians to acquire extra clinical skills to manage patients with the disease.