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Excellence in patient education award 2009

The Excellence in Patient Education (EPE) Award was launched by EONS in 2005 with the aim of honouring individual nurses or organisations that have consistently excelled at enlightening cancer patients about their disease and its treatments. EONS believes that this Award will encourage creative and cutting-edge approaches to the development of patient education materials.

The Award is open to individual nurses or organisations that have developed original and high quality patient education materials targeted at cancer patients. The EPE Award nominations are judged on their ability to develop creative and innovative materials that clearly communicate relevant and accurate information to patients and their families.

Individual nurses or organisations that have developed innovative and high quality educational materials targeted at cancer patients are eligable for the Award.

The deadline for applications for 2009 has now passed. Applicants will be contacted shortly.

Current winner

2009	Ms Corien Eeltink, Department of Haematology of the VU medical centre Amsterdam and Mrs. Daniela Hahn, the Dutch Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Ziekenhuis, the Netherlands. Booklet: A question and answer approach about cancer and sexuality

Previous winners

2008	Mrs. Catherine Oakley and Mrs. Jo Johnson, St. George's Hospital, London, UK ‘Patient Oral Chemotherapy Diary’ - the diary was developed to provide a robust generic method of supporting cancer patients and their carers, to manage oral chemotherapy treatments.
2007	Niek Golsteijn, Vincent Keijsers and Sylvia Verhagen of the V&VN Oncology, Netherlands 'Verpleegkundigen en Verzorgenden Nederland - Oncologie' (‘SignGuide Oncology’ a novel way of presenting patient information).
2006	Arno Mank and the staff of the Department of Haematology/Oncology at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam CD-ROM package ‘The Patient’s Journey: From chemotherapy to stem-cell transplantation’.
2005	Oncology Unit at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin, Ireland ‘Precious Times: a Handbook on Palliative Care for Parents and Children with Cancer’.