Voting is now open for the final four categories in the Our Health Heroes Awards 2019. Anyone can vote for the healthcare workers they think have gone above and beyond the call of duty via the Skills for Health website (click here to be redirected).
Twelve regional winners have been named for the Operational Services Support Worker Award and the Clinical Support Worker Award. An overall national winner for each category will be decided via the public vote. Further two categories – Apprentice of the Year and the Outstanding Contribution finalists will be awarded Gold, Silver and Bronze. There is more detail about each of the finalists on the Skills for Health website. Here is the shortlist.
Operational Services Support Worker Award:
Claire Hands – Senior Clinical Secretary, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Heather Butler – Finance and Reporting Analyst, The Cornerstone Practice
Charlotte Rushton – Discharge Co-ordinator, Northern Devon Healthcare Trust
Wayne Ingram – Kitchen Manager, Lovett Care Limited
Pauling Symington – Service Assistant, South Easter Trust
Annabel Little – Business Manager, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Helen Lumber – PA to the Assistant Director of Paramedicine, Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust
Reg Ramsden – Laundry Manager, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
Sarah Woods – Learning and Development Administrator, Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust
Tracey Underhill – Freedom to Speak Up Guardian, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Carl Brooks – Health Care Support Worker, NHS Orkney
Dawn Nicholson – Support Worker, HFT
Clinical Support Worker Award:
Kelly Stuart – Meaningful Activities Facilitator, UHL NHS Trust
Katrina Lavery – Dementia Activity Support Worker, Gillis Memory Centre SHSCT
Emma Worrell – Maxillofacial Prosthetist, Queen Victoria Hospital
Jackie Fizsimons – Healthcare Assistant, West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Paul Foster – Care Support Worker, Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
Peter Haddow – Support Worker, Northumberland Tyne and Wear
Olivia Gillon – Apprentice Clinical Support Worker, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Nicolette Mahon – Maternity Support Worker, Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospital
Richard Gray – CSW/Blood Borne Virus Prevention, NHS Lothian’s Harm Reduction Team
Jade Benjamin – Occupational Therapy Support Worker, Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB
Janet Pagdanganan – Safeguarding Assistant, The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Pauline Urvoy – Community Nursery Nurse, CNWL 0-19 Southwest Hub
Apprentice of the Year:
Sophie Pomroy – Business Administration and Organisational Development Apprentice, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Ciaran Jones – Radiotherapy Engineering Apprentice, University Hospital of North Midlands
Patrick Onyema – Apprentice Nursing Associate, North East London NHS Foundation Trust
Outstanding Contribution Award:
Sarah Armer – Specialist Dietitian, South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Christine Ginsburg – Palliative Care Discharge Coordinator, Mountbatten hospice
Janet Callaghan – Team Leader Treatment Rooms, Manchester Local Care Organisation.
Organised by Skills for Health and headline sponsor Health Education England, Our Health Heroes has been celebrating unsung healthcare heroes from across the UK since 2016.
The 34 finalists and team category winners have been invited to the Our Health Heroes Awards ceremony, where the 24 regional and eight national winners will be presented with their awards, on Wednesday November 20, 2019 at London’s Science Museum.
Voting closes on October 11.
