2024 Shortlist
Ann Shuttleworth Rising Star Award
- Randolph Alburo - Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Elaine Blow - Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
- Daniel Branch - Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Steven Jewell - Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Suraj Kumar - West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Ellin McIntyre - Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Greeshma Nair - Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Lovelyn Ndubuisi-Okoroezi - East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
- Kirti Paik-Inkar - Cygnet Group
- Matthew Roberts - Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Jordan Spires - Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Midwife of the Year
- Waheeda Abbas - Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- Samantha Behagg - West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Laura Bridle - South East London Integrated Care System
- Sarah Jamieson - University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
- Cerian Llewelyn - Hywel Dda University Health Board
- Hannah O'Donnell - Croydon University Hospital NHS Trust
- Sally Pezaro - Coventry University
- Laura Spence - NeuroNatal
Nurse Leader of the Year
- Sally Burnie - Milton Keynes University Hospital
- Phillipa Cain - Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Emma Dixon - St Ann's Hospice
- Florence Grace Parafina - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Abi Hilton - Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Joan Pons Laplana - NHS England
- Jennifer Loke - Park View Surgery
- Karen Pountney - Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Matthew Roberts - Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Julie Roye - East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Victoria Williams - Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Nurse Leader of the Year Award Sponsored By:
Nurse of the Year
- Gill Boast - Staffordshire Training Hub
- Phillipa Cain - Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Lisa Canade - Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Jill Davies - DHU Healthcare
- Oliver Field - Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Aileen Fraser - University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
- Catherine Harrison - Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Ediscyll Lorusso - St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Andrena Mierkalns - Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Jaypee Palis Amada - East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- Rebecca Taylor - Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Nurse of the Year Award Sponsored By:
Care of Older People
- Dementia UK - Frailty service
- Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board - Care home vaccinations project
- Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust - Reducing patients’ anticholinergic burden score on admission
- Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - SIGHT C. difficile campaign 16 years on – a reduction of cases in specialty and integrated medicine
- Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - Urgent community response frailty
- Middlesex University in partnership with North Central London Integrated Care Board and North Central London Training Hub - Using simulation learning for adult social care nurses
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - The Green Wellbeing Project
- Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust - Person-centred approach to reconditioning
- Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust - Femoral fracture service
- Stow Healthcare, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and Care England - The Decaf Project
- Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust - ME in deMEntia
- University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust - Older adult's diversional therapist pilot
Children’s Services
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Early parenthood service – supporting families to be the best they can be
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust - Kids speak up: an educational animation
- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust - Joint specialist nursing posts between children's hospices and The Louis Dundas Centre for paediatric palliative care
- Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust - Breastfeeding Hull
- King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Educating adolescents about vaping risk
- Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - The vulnerable child and young person wellbeing specialist nurse role
- My School Health - Service level school nursing service
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, Charlton Athletic Community Trust and METRO Charity - The Young Greenwich Partnership
- Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust - Children's neurodevelopment transformation
- Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust - Paediatric virtual ward
- Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust - Paediatric virtual ward
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - We Can Talk training – implementation of wellbeing passport and distraction packs for children and young people
Clinical Research Nursing
- Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Novel methods of recruiting research delivery staff in smaller hospitals
- Cardiff and Vale University Health Board - CART QUOL study – Building an army of nursing researchers
- Homerton Healthcare Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Diversity and inclusion in research
- Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust - Meaningful patient and public involvement for people with learning disability in the DECODE research study
- Marie Curie - Research nurses in hospices – creating a positive research culture through improving research awareness, involvement and collaboration
- Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - A national teenager and young adults with cancer co-produced educational resource for demystifying clinical trials, genomic testing and biobanking
- Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust and Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust - 0-19 research network: 2-year project
- St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Engagement, collaboration, enthusiasm and teamwork – embedding critical care research in clinical practice
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - STAR – Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Alliance for Research
- University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust - Recruitment video for VitDalize
- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust - Enhancing research visibility – driving ideas to action
Clinical Research Nursing Award Sponsored By:
Continence Promotion and Care
- Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership - Bladder and bowel promotion
- City Health Care Partnership CIC - Bladder and bowel service
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust - Don’t just grab a pad – developing an effective continence service in an acute hospital setting
- Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Continence care – leaving the one size fits all approach behind
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - Level one continence clinic in Rushcliffe
- Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust - Catheter Project
- Sanctuary Care - Nurturing skin health through simplified incontinence associated dermatitis care
- Stow Healthcare, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and Care England - The Decaf Project
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust - Development of a children and young people's continence physical assessment module
- University of Bristol - URApp – a smartphone app to support young people's adherence to bladder training
Critical and Emergency Care Nursing
- Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust - BLOSM Service
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Little Journey – patient and relative app
- Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust - Emergency department familiarisation visits
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust - Developing a family liaison service in adult critical care
- Liverpool Women's Hospital - Moving the early pregnancy assessment unit
- Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust - MASST – Multi Agency Safeguarding and Support Team
- Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust - Using oral ethanol to improve the emergency department management of patients who are severely alcohol dependent
- South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust - The benefit of a senior nurse on the post take ward round
- United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust - Reducing the flow of emergency surgical presentations to the emergency department
- University of Dundee - Scaling up ICU patient-led support groups across Scotland
Dame Elizabeth Anionwu Award for Inclusivity in Nursing and Midwifery
- Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - Addressing inequalities through effective co-production
- Bolton NHS Foundation Trust - Supporting diabetes management in the homeless population of Bolton
- East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust - Carers experience programme
- Homeless Health Service - Homelessness cervical cytology
- Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust - Collaboration safety improvements between A&E and police custody detainees
- Serco Group, Mental Health Innovations UK and Unify Business Solutions - SHOUT for prisoners
- Suffolk GP Federation - The Very Important Invitation Project
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Inclusive conversations
- West Road Medical Centre - Primary care partnerships
Dame Elizabeth Anionwu Award for Inclusivity in Nursing and Midwifery Award Sponsored By:
HRH The Prince of Wales Award for Integrated Approaches to Care
- Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust - Patients know less to patients know best – a collaborative approach
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Early parenthood service – supporting families to be the best they can be
- DHU Healthcare - Making preferred place of care and death a reality
- Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Addressing barriers to successful diabetes transition in children and young people
- NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board and West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board - Creating, developing and sustaining nurse and carer partnerships across South Yorkshire
- Practice Plus Group - Offering holistic care via integrated care pathways
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Nurse-led late effects screening service
- Singing Mamas - Singing on prescription for maternal mental health
- Stow Healthcare, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and Care England - The Decaf Project
- Tenovus Cancer Care - Cancer Callback
- The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust - Keeping women with epilepsy safe: preconception to motherhood
HRH The Prince of Wales Award for Integrated Approaches to Care Award Sponsored By:
Infection Prevention and Control
- Central Surrey Health - Reducing inappropriate urethral catheter use in the community
- HCA Healthcare - Invasive devices leadership round
- HCA Healthcare - Reduction of bacteraemia in ITU
- Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - A SIGHT C. difficile campaign 16 years on – a reduction of cases in specialty and integrated medicine
- Lincolnshire County Council - Education framework for adult social care
- LloydsPharmacy Clinical Homecare - Management and monitoring of catheter related blood stream infections in clinical homecare settings
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust - Quality improvement project to prevent bloodstream infections by improving the care and management of peripheral cannulas
- NHS Dorset and Dorset Integrated Care Partnership - Dorset Hydration Project – every drop, every cup and every bite counts
- Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust - Development in infection prevention and control
- Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust - Breast dressings
- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust - Clean4Green
Ingrid Fuchs Cancer Nursing Award
- Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust - Enhanced supportive care team
- Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust - Neuroendocrine tumour specialist nurse service
- Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - General surgery cancer pathway improvement project – implementing a faster diagnosis team to carry out gastro triage (UGI and LGI)
- Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - NCCC ambulatory care – streamlining treatment pathways in acute myeloid leukemia
- Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - Enhancing oral hormonal therapy treatment among breast cancer patients during the five-year treatment period following surgery
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Nurse-led late effects screening service
- Suffolk GP Federation - The Very Important Invitation Project
- Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust - Macmillan advanced cancer specialist nursing service
- The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust and The Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance - The teenage and young adult faster diagnosis project
- The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust - Softies in diverse skin-tone
- Velindre University NHS Trust - Innovative nurse-led post radiotherapy follow up clinic
Learning Disabilities Nursing
- Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust - Emergency department familiarisation visits
- Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust and NHS Professionals - New to care: a learning disability pathway
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust - Acute learning disability pathways
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust - VIP pathway
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust - The HOPE(S) model
- Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust - Using virtual reality to support patients with learning disabilities and/or autism with healthcare anxiety
- Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust - Learning disabilities and autism team
- Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust - STOMP in practice
- The London Clinic - Not just making reasonable adjustments
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Learning disabilities champions
- University of Stirling - Raising our sights: a simulated practice learning experience
Nursing in Mental Health
- Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust - Single point of access – adult forensic mental health services
- Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust - Trainee senior nurse programme
- NHS Practitioner Health - First contact team
- Oasis Community Learning- National mental health team
- Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust - Neurodevelopment service transformation
- Serco Group, Mental Health Innovations UK and Unify Business Solutions - SHOUT for prisoners
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust - The learning disability and autism drop-in clinic
- Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust - Dual diagnosis project
- The State Hospital - Triple jeopardy three years on – Did we make a difference?
- West London NHS Trust - Highly engaging de-escalation techniques for all with interactive QR coded digital booklet
- Whittington Health NHS Trust - CAMHS dialectical behaviour service
Nursing in Primary Care
- BrisDoc Healthcare Services - Homelessness cervical cytology
- Connect Prescription Management Service - Connect prescription management service
- Hartlepool Health Primary Care Network - LOGIC – holistic proactive management in COPD
- Lancashire and South Cumbria Primary Care Training Hub - Life journey pathway placement
- Lancashire and South Cumbria Training Hub - Interprofessional placement model
- Nottinghamshire Alliance Training Hub - General practice nurse mid-career fellowship
- Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust - Supporting health inequalities in primary care
- Serco Group, Mental Health Innovations UK and Unify Business Solutions - SHOUT for prisoners
- Staffordshire Training Hub - Staffordshire GPN Foundation School
- Suffolk GP Federation - The Very Important Invitation Project
- West Road Medical Centre - Primary care partnerships
Nursing in Social Care
- Bennfield House - Creation of Bennfield House
- CHD Living - Creating a care continuum
- Middlesex University in partnership with North Central London Integrated Care Board and North Central London Training Hub - Simulation in adult social care nurse education
- Middlesex University in partnership with North Central London Integrated Care Board and North Central London Training Hub - Health and wellbeing bus for adult social care staff
- Royal Star and Garter - Non-medical prescribers
- University of Salford - The value of an interprofessional student training care home scheme
Nursing in the Community
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Early parenthood service – supporting parents to be the best they can be
- BrisDoc Healthcare Services - Homelessness cervical cytology
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust - New starters skills enhancement programme
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust - Senior nurse enhancement programme
- Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust - Children's hospital at home team
- Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust - Improving the confidence of community nurses in their ability and knowledge to help adults with type 2 diabetes become independent with insulin administration
- Lymphoedema Wales Clinical Network and Swansea Bay University Health Board - On the ground clinical education programme for lymphoedema in the community
- NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board and West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board - Creating, developing and sustaining nurse and carer partnerships across South Yorkshire
- Shooting Star Children's Hospices - Silent on-call rota
- Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust - The delegation of insulin administration
- University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust - Hep C elimination in homelessness
Patient Safety Improvement
- Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust - Reducing extravasation incidence and harm levels
- Bolton NHS Foundation Trust - Introducing more virtual care with our admission avoidance team
- Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust - Neuroendocrine tumour CNS service
- East London NHS Foundation Trust - Improving observations and therapeutic engagement on mental health inpatient wards
- Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust - Mental health streaming
- King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Establishing a new standard method to assess the effectiveness and improve the environmental cleaning in an acute NHS hospital
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust - The HOPE(S) model
- North Devon Hospice - Hospice specific safe staffing tool
- Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust - Delayed wound healing in complex hind foot surgery
- Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust - The delegation of insulin administration
- The Christie NHS Foundation Trust - Addressing skin tone bias in wound care
- West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - Surgical virtual hospital for elective colorectal patients
Public Health Nursing
- Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust - Implementing national screening program pathways for long stay patients in a mental health trust
- Haemochromatosis UK - Nurse-led genetic screening, genetic counselling and education programmes
- HCRG Care Group - Lancashire children in care under 5 years of age health visiting service
- Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust - Breastfeeding Hull
- Invicta Health CIC and Thanet District Council - RISE – Rough Sleeper Intervention Support Empowerment
- Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust - Healthy together helpline
- Middlesex University in partnership with North Central London Integrated Care Board and North Central London Training Hub - Health and wellbeing bus for adult social care staff
- Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust - Parent-infant emotional wellbeing service
- Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust and Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust - 0-19 research network: 2-year project
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust - Rainbow baby health visiting pilot
- Turning Point - Wakefield inspiring recovery
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Central London Integrated Care Board - Nurse-led mobile MMR vaccination service
Sustainability in Nursing and Midwifery
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust - Improving the escalation process and shared clinical decision-making in an urgent community response pathway
- Chester Zoo - Reducing the consumption of paper, ink and plastic
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust - A quality improvement project to improve sustainable prescribing of inhaled therapy for patients with airways disease
- HCA Healthcare - Optimising waste segregation to reduce carbon footprint
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust - Advocating for change – clinical leadership for sustainability
- Midlands Partnership Foundation University Trust - The Green Wellbeing Project
- NHS Blood and Transplant - Training for specialist nurses in deceased organ and tissue donation across the UK
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust - Self-removal of catheters at home following a radical prostatectomy for treatment of prostate cancer
- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust - Pie and Porridge Project
- University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust - Patient First, Planet First – Green Plan 2021
- University of the West of England - Sustainable global public health module in Bsc (hons) nursing programme
Team of the Year
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Early parenthood service – supporting families to be the best they can be
- Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust - My Forever Box – A multi-disciplinary approach to improve care for the pre-bereaved child
- Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust - NQN System Rotations Programme: the Derbyshire nurse
- East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust - Recruitment and patient safety and experience
- Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust - The Cardiac Advanced Clinical Practitioner Team
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust - Nurse-led sustainable plastic surgery trauma service transformation: a positive Covid-19 legacy
- NHS Practitioner Health - First Contact Team
- Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust - Virtual ward and paediatric virtual ward
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Nurse-led late effects screening service
- St Joseph's Hospice - Accessible information project
- Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust - ADHD Pathway
- Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust - Integrated Support Unit
Team of the Year Award Sponsored By:
Technology and Data in Nursing
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Critical Care Outreach Team
- Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust - Love to learn
- LloydsPharmacy Clinical Homecare - Utilisation of technology and data in nursing
- NHS Blood and Transplant - TransplantPath
- North Bristol NHS Trust - Safe to Respond – Preventing deterioration with technology and data
- Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust - Virtual ward remote monitoring
- Serco Group, Mental Health Innovations UK and Unify Business Solutions - SHOUT for prisoners
- South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust - Enabling effective learning environments amongst nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals using virtual reality technology
- West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - Self-rostering using employee online
- West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - Surgical virtual hospital for elective colorectal patients
Theatre and Surgical Nursing
- Bolton NHS Foundation Trust - Enhancing patient safety on a surgical assessment unit with the introduction of non-medical prescribing for senior nurses
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust and South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre - Prehabilitation of patients undergoing elective arthroplasty procedures
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust and South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre - Remote monitoring of post-operative patients post discharge following hip and knee arthroplasty
- HCA Healthcare - Reducing colorectal surgical site infection through data innovations
- NHS England - GIRFT - The national non-medical preoperative assessment network
- West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - Surgical virtual hospital for elective colorectal patients
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust - Peri-operative nutritional support for hip fracture patients