Celebrating his contribution to general practice and interprofessional education. 

This award was established in the memory of the late Dr John Horder.

John Horder pioneered primary care to critical acclaim as senior partner in the Kentish Town General Practice in North London establishing and providing support and development for a 28 strong multidisciplinary primary health care team. He is credited with establishing General Practice as a respected discipline within medicine. With others he founded the Royal College of General Practitioners (as it became) and served as its president from 1979 – 82.

John was an Adviser to the WHO and a fellow at The King’s Fund. In addition he was appointed a Wolfson Travelling Fellow of the Royal Society and in this role travelled widely throughout Europe and led the Leeuwenhorst Group collaborating with like-minded doctors to promote primary care internationally.

Anne Loxley (social work teacher), Michael Carmi (GP) and Valerie Packer (health visitor) who had been pioneering interprofessional short courses at the Middlesex Polytechnic invited John to chair the planning group for the national body about which they had dreamt. He agreed readily, chairing the committee, soliciting funds and convening conferences leading to the launch in 1987 of “The National Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education in Primary Health Care” (as CAIPE was called in its early years), becoming its first chair and later president.

Award Overview and Eligibility

John Horder Practitioner Team Award

This award is open for qualified practitioners working in health and social care teams and or practitioner educator teams working in Higher Education Institutions. We particularly welcome teams from primary health care or community care.

John Horder Student Team Award

This award is open to pre-registration (undergraduate) or post-qualified student teams in health and social care professional training. The award welcomes interprofessional work in primary care.

Selection

Entries for the 2026 awards will open in March 2026 and will be judged by a panel of judges from CAIPE and The Royal Society of Medicine.

The Prize

Prizes of £600 per team are award at an annual event at the Royal Society of Medicine in September.

Celebrating Excellence in Social Work and Interprofessional Practice.

This award was established in the memory of the late Professor Hugh Barr.

Professor Hugh Barr’s legacy in interprofessional education and collaborative practice is both profound and enduring. Following his retirement in 1987 from his role as Assistant Director of the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work, Hugh continued to shape the field through academic leadership and strategic influence.

In retirement, he led the Centre for Interprofessional Studies at the University of Nottingham, where he worked closely with Dr John Horder, Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners and Founder of CAIPE. This collaboration led to Hugh’s appointment as a CAIPE advisor, followed by his service on the Board, as Chair and eventual role as President.

Throughout his national and international leadership, Hugh remained deeply committed to social work as a profession and social care as a field of practice. He worked tirelessly to highlight the indispensable role of social workers in embedding collaborative approaches across health and social care. His final published paper explored the contribution of social work to integrated care—an enduring testament to his vision.

Award Overview

The Hugh Barr Award is presented to the best paper published in the Journal of Interprofessional Care that advances understanding of social work in interprofessional education or practice.

Eligibility and Selection

We advise applicants to read the Journal of Interprofessional Care for instructions for authors

• Open to all authors; collaborative submissions are encouraged
• Papers must be published in the Journal of Interprofessional Care
• All formats are eligible, including empirical research, reviews, and theoretical narratives
• Papers must adhere to the Journal’s author guidelines
• Selection is made by the Editor-in-Chief and a panel of the Journal’s Associate Editors (including UK and international Editors), with final approval by the CAIPE Board 
• Judging criteria include scholarly excellence, originality, and contribution to the field

Award Cycle

The award is offered biennially, in alternating years to the All Together Better Health (ATBH) conference series.

• First cycle: 2026 (papers published and accepted in 2026 will be considered)
• Next cycle: 2028 (following ATBH 2027), and so on.

Prize

• The award winner(s) will receive £800

Announcement and Recognition

• Formal recognition will be given at the following ATBH conference, where the awardee will be encouraged to present their work.
• The winner will also be announced on the CAIPE website.

Celebrating Excellence in Scholarship in interprofessional education from the Journal of Interprofessional Care.

This award was established in the memory of Professor Scott Reeves.

Professor Scott Reeves was a social scientist involved in health professions education and health services research for over 20 years. He led the way for more empirical and theoretical research on collaborative activities such as interprofessional education, collaboration, teamwork and patient safety. At the time of his death, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Interprofessional Care and Professor of Interprofessional Research at Kingston & St George’s University of London, UK.

Award Overview

The award is given for the best research oral paper presented at the All Together Better Health Conference (ATBH).

Eligibility and Selection

All oral research abstracts submitted to the ATBH conference are eligible. The top ten highest scoring abstracts are entered for the award. During the conference a CAIPE team listen to the presentations and score them for scholarship and presentation. The final scores result in the winning entry which is presented to the winner(s) at the conference dinner.

The Prize

This £800 award is sponsored by Taylor & Francis in collaboration with the Journal of Interprofessional Care