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
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
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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