Winners and Shortlist 2023

Ann Shuttleworth Rising Star Award

Winner: Farrah Amjad: Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Finalists

  • Esievo Atete: Care UK
  • Daniel Robert Branch: Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
  • Rhegell Cafi rma: London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Sian Farrington: The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
  • Martina Gomez: West London NHS Trust
  • Michaela Heaton: Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
  • Ellie Jolley-Dawson: Powys Teaching Health Board
  • Sarah Monk: Stow Healthcare
  • Andrew Noon: Evolving Mindset
  • Harmony Owhotake: Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Kate Shreeve: Spectrum Community Health CIC






Care of Older People

Winner:  Moorfield's Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Eye Envoys

Finalists

  • Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust: Ageing Well
  • Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust: Dementia Palliative Care Team
  • Heart of Kent Hospice: Dementia Service
  • Hospice Isle of Man: A nurse-led therapeutic support group for people living with dementia and their carers
  • Landermeads Nursing Home: Quality of life and continence promotion in long-term dementia care
  • NAViGO Health and Social Care CIC: Janine Smith Suite
  • NHS England: Recondition the Nation
  • NHS Norfolk and Waveney ICB and Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust: Dementia diagnosis in care homes
  • The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust: Let’s Get Moving
  • Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust: Use of technology in patients with diabetes
  • Swansea Bay University Health Board: Diabetes education and information resource

Chief Nursing Offcers’ Award for Lifetime Achievement

Winner : Greg Padmore-Dix


Children’s Services

Winner:  DHU Healthcare, Nottingham Children’s Hospital and University Hospitals Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust: A wish to die at home: making this possible for children

Finalists

  • Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Transformation of children’s emergency department pathways into a pioneering model
  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Emergency department nurse navigators
  • Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust: Raising the voice of the child with health conditions
  • Chestnut Tree Children’s Hospice Care: Promoting children and families’ wellbeing and reducing social isolation post pandemic
  • Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust: Using an ambulatory pump to optimise pain management
  • Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Nurse-led initiatives to empower parents to confidently partner in the care of their baby
  • North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust: Paediatric HIV service

Clinical Research Nursing

Winner:  Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Stroke Trial Tracker

Finalists

  • Medway NHS Foundation Trust: Under-served lung research
  • Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust: Luton, Essex and Hearts Valley Primary Care Research Team
  • NIHR Imperial Clinical Research Facility: Caring for staff, caring for patients: creating a culture of sustainable success
  • Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust: Grounded Research
  • Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust: 0-19 Research Network (Yorkshire and Humber)

Continence Promotion and Care

Winner: Bowel support service Your Healthcare Community Interest Company

Finalists

  • Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: Healthy bowel and bladder sessions
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Continence Promotion Team
  • Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust: Neurology nurse-led Covid-19 recovery
  • Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust: Rebranding and promoting the bladder and bowel service
  • Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust: Reducing containment product use in the community
  • South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust: Developing a community trial removal of catheter service
  • Landermeads Nursing Home: Quality of life and continence promotion in long-term dementia care
  • Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust: Continence promotion and education
  • University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust: Purewick female external catheter as urinary catheter alternative

Critical and Emergency Care Nursing

Winner:  Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust: Introducing the pause after a death on the critical care unit

Finalists

  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Emergency department nurse navigators
  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: The ED project: timely and responsive specialist palliative care assessment at the ‘front door’
  • Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust: BLOSM: a trauma-informed approach to emergency care
  • Essex Partnership University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Mental health urgent care department
  • Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Call 4 Concern: implementation and one-year review
  • St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Specialist palliative care at the front door
  • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Electronic SBAR

Dame Elizabeth Anionwu Award for Inclusivity in Nursing and Midwifery

Winner:  Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust: Kofoworola Abeni Pratt Fellowship

Finalists

  • British Sikh Nurses: #ReStartAHeart campaign
  • Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Creating a culturally safe maternity unit
  • Dementia UK: The Chinese Welfare Trust Admiral Nurse clinic
  • Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust: Critical Care personalised hair and skin care project
  • King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Harnessing the expertise of overseas qualified nurses working as care support workers in UK
  • Modality Partnership: Homeless Health Team
  • NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust: Improving annual health check uptake and quality for ethnic minorities with a learning disability
  • North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust: ABC parents
  • North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust: Paediatric HIV service
  • Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust: Meet PEET (Patient Experience Engagement Team)
  • Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: The STAR (Supporting Treatment in Additional-needs Requirements) team

HRH The Prince of Wales Award for Integrated Approaches to Care

Winner:  Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Operation Provide

Finalists

  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Emergency department nurse navigators
  • Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust: Proactive Care Team
  • Essex Partnership University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Mental health urgent care department
  • Practice Plus Group: The first of its kind in Health-in-Justice: an integrated Special Care Unit at HMP Stafford
  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Multiple sclerosis pregnancy project
  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Team Around the Person
  • Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust: REACH (Reducing Exclusion for Adults with Complex Housing needs) team
  • United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust and NHS Lincolnshire ICB: Development of an integrated county-wide heart failure service
  • University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Community outreach clinic for intrathecal baclofen refills
  • West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Hospital ISVA (Independent Sexual Violence Adviser) project: supporting victims in an acute trust

Infection Prevention and Control

Winner:  Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Development of a water safety training and assurance package within a haemato-oncology unit: a nurse-led initiative

Finalists

  • Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Central Surrey Health: North West Surrey Alliance integrated infection prevention and control team
  • HCA Healthcare: Infection control link programme
  • Health Education and Improvement Wales: Infection prevention and control training, learning and development framework
  • Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust: I-Spy sepsis and I-Spy deterioration: a community journey
  • NHS Black Country ICB: Reducing cross-contamination risks during an outbreak in care homes
  • Royal Free Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Reducing hospital-acquired infections on 7 West ward
  • The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust: Gram-negative bloodstream infection and the cancer patient (Project Frank)
  • University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust: Digital urinary catheter assessment and monitoring tool

Ingrid Fuchs Cancer Nursing Award

Winner:  Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Nurse-led initiative in improving prostate cancer pathway

Finalists

  • Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust: Implementing a virtual clinic on Noona
  • The Christie NHS Foundation Trust: Digitise to Prioritise: combining digital intelligence and integrative therapies, to reduce distress in oncology
  • The Christie NHS Foundation Trust: Nurse-led salvage clinic
  • The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust: Transforming the Cheshire and Merseyside Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression Service
  • Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust: Acute oncology and non-specific symptoms service
  • The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Seven-day systemic anti-cancer therapies service
  • South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust: Cancer Internship Programme
  • Swansea Bay University Health Board: 10@10

Learning Disabilities Nursing

Winner:  The Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland: QNIS learning disability animation

Finalists

  • Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust: Annual health checks in secondary care: improving uptake and quality
  • Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust: Streamlining triage and the referral process
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust: Learning Disability Intensive Support Team
  • NHS Forth Valley: Establishing a teams approach to discharge planning in learning disability services
  • Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust: Flagging project to improve the bowel cancer screening programme pathway
  • Your Healthcare CIC: Bowel support service

Midwife of the Year

Winner:  Laura Walton: King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Finalists

  • Joyce Adu-Amankwah: St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Rachel Croll: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Anna Croot: The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
  • Natasha McCormack: The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
  • Kate Raney: University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
  • Gail Roberts: Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Nurse Leader of the Year

Winner:  Richard Jones: NHS Practitioner Health

Finalists

  • Jacqui Burnett: Practice Plus Group
  • Emily Cocker: The Alexandra Hospital and University of Manchester
  • Alison Cooke: University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
  • Analene Galvo: Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
  • Michael Grimes: Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Fiona Hibberts: University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
  • Melanie Jones: Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
  • Rebekah Nwaka: Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
  • Komal Patel: St Luke’s Hospice
  • Donna Phillips: Spectrum Community Health CIC
  • Caroline Ralph: The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Nurse of the Year

Winner:  Eric Teague-Hellon: Practice Plus Group

Finalists

  • Andrew Barton: Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
  • Emily Cocker: The Alexandra Hospital and University of Manchester
  • Yolette Fraser: North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
  • Sarah Gallagher: NHS Gloucestershire ICB
  • Chloe Hammond: Radis Community Care
  • Steven Hardy: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
  • Darina Koneva: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Tracey Long: Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
  • Hilary Maxwell: Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Joan Pons Laplana: NHS England
  • Hannah Welbourne: North Bristol NHS Trust

Nursing in Mental Health

Winner:  Belfast Health and Social Care Trust: Reduction in violence and aggression: reinforcing appropriate behaviours

Finalists

  • Dementia UK: The Chinese Welfare Trust Admiral Nurse clinic
  • Dementia UK: Professional Footballers’ Association Admiral Nurse service
  • Essex Partnership University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Mental health urgent care department
  • Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust: Enhanced Rehabilitation Outreach Service
  • Homewell Practice: Improving access to mental health support in primary care
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust: Duxbury ward: road to recovery
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust: The Bus Stop
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust: Tipping the balance
  • NHS Scotland The State Hospital: Triple Jeopardy: a learning partnership to enhance care for people who are ageing with mental disorders and dementia in a high-secure setting

Nursing in Primary Care

Winner:  NHS England and Newcastle GP Services: Nurses On Tour: student-led health roadshows

Finalists

  • Aneurin Bevan University Health Board: Spirometry diagnostic hubs in primary care
  • Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust: Digital frailty MDT channel
  • Health Care First: Paediatric nurses in general practice
  • Newham Vicarage Practice: Increasing student nurse placements in primary care
  • NHS Gloucestershire ICB: Improving health inequalities for those with learning disabilities
  • North Staffordshire GP Federation: Staffordshire Trainee Nursing Associate Programme
  • The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust: Improving primary care access
  • Southport and Formby Health: Sefton training hub: Improving care for mental health patients and those with learning difficulties in primary care
  • Spectrum Community Health CIC: Improving outcomes for long-term conditions
  • University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust: West Midlands Familial Hypercholesterolaemia Service

Nursing in Social Care

Winner:  Care UK: Hear well

Finalists

  • Dorothy House Hospice Care: Enhancing end-of-life quality of care: The Tulip certificate
  • Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership: Care Provider Olympics
  • Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership: Impact of a hydration quality improvement programme in care homes
  • Kineton Manor Nursing Home: Teaching Care Home Project
  • Landermeads Nursing Home: Quality of life and continence promotion in long-term dementia care
  • Nightingale Hammerson: Outstanding holistic care-home care
  • North Central London Training Hubs and North Central London ICB: Project G.A.R.D.E.N.
  • Ocean Healthcare: Nurse-led complex care 
  • StellarCare NW: Delivering coordinated care at home: a nurseled approach to improve client outcomes
  • Sutton Health and Care and Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust: Learning disability health facilitation project
  • Wren Hall Nursing Home: Using digitalisation to recognise deterioration earlier in frail older people with complex needs

Nursing in the Community

Winner:  Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust: Dementia Palliative Care Team

Finalists

  • Bolton NHS Foundation Trust: Bringing care home with our intravenous nursing team
  • Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust: A needs led mental health community rehabilitation team: working as part of a whole system
    Compton Care: The development of a dynamic and highly responsive community palliative nursing team
  • Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Urgent community response: virtual ward and care home teams enable people to stay at home
  • East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust: Improvements in the provision of end-of-life care: district nursing
  • East London NHS Foundation Trust: Tower Hamlets advance care planning team
  • Lloyds Pharmacy Clinical Homecare: Reducing the cancer backlog through effective partnerships
  • Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust: Named nurse in community nursing
  • Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust: Diabetes team hard-to-reach project
  • Surrey Downs Health and Care: Transforming the digital processes between GPs and primary care via EMIS system
  • Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust: REACH (Reducing Exclusion for Adults with Complex Housing needs) team

Patient Safety Improvement

Winner: The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: A collaborative model of meningococcal vaccination response monitoring for patients receiving complement inhibition

Finalists

  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Operation Provide
  • Bolton NHS Foundation Trust: Enhanced Care and Support Team
  • Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust: Clinical nurse tutors
  • Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Call 4 Concern: implementation and one-year review
  • Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Nasogastric feeding tube safety
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust: The Bus Stop
  • Medway NHS Foundation Trust: Acute and emergency medicine collaboration to maximise community safety
  • Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust: Advanced practice governance maturity matrix
  • The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust: Let’s Get Moving
  • Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust: Named nurse in community nursing
  • Spire Healthcare: Reducing the incidence of post-operative hyponatraemia and improving care

Public Health Nursing

Winner: Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust: Health visiting direct referral to Citizens Advice

Finalists

  • Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust: Raising the voice of the child with health conditions An animation
  • Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust: Health for young carers
  • Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust: Specialist health visitor for vulnerable families in temporary accommodation
  • ICON: The ICON Cope programme
  • Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust: Digital health and wellbeing contacts
  • The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Operation Encompass: police cause for concern triage pilot
  • Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust: 0-19 Research Network (Yorkshire and Humber)
  • Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust: Rainbow baby health visiting pilot: supporting parenting following loss It was identified
  • South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust: Tobacco dependency treatment in HMP Prison Hydebank Wood
  • Spectrum Community Health CIC: Inclusive health service
  • Turning Point: Rochdale and Oldham Active Recovery (ROAR) nursing team

Team of the Year

Winner:  Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust: Acute Oncology Service, North Devon District Hospital

Finalists

  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Operation Provide
  • British Indian Nurses Association: Pastoral, wellbeing and career support
  • Care UK: Weald Heights
  • The Christie NHS Foundation Trust: Innovate to integrate personalised care: how a complementary health and wellbeing team is leading the way
  • East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust: Armed Forces Veterans Project
  • Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust: Enhanced Rehabilitation Outreach Service
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust: The Bus Stop
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust: Health facilitation team development
  • Modality Partnership: Homeless Health Team
  • NHS Practitioner Health: First Contact Team
  • Solent NHS Trust: The Portsmouth Rehabilitation and Reablement Team

Technology and Data in Nursing

Winner:  North West Neonatal Operational Delivery Network: Creation of a digital neonatal parent passport

Finalists

  • Canford Healthcare: Harnessing technology for outstanding governance
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust: The recovery and discharge planning tool
  • Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust: Digital health and wellbeing forms
  • Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust: Preceptorship team 
  • Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Wisdom of patients
  • Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Digital Twin 
  • The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Digital pre-assessment for cancer patients
  • NHS Ayrshire and Arran: Improving timely administration of Parkinson’s medications in hospital
  • Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust: Children’s care group
  • The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust: App for cancer information, support and wellbeing
  • University of Salford: The Salford outbreak management tool

Theatre and Surgical Nursing

Winner:  The Christie NHS Foundation Trust: Dignifying surgery for a person with dementia and skin cancer

Finalists

  • King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Nurse-led discharge pathways for elective surgery
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Utilisation of National Emergency Laparotomy Audit coordinator and launch of nurse-led clinic
  • Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust: Acuity based patient allocation
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Enhanced care unit
  • South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Personal perioperative pathway for adult patients with additional needs