Shortlist 2025

Ann Shuttleworth Rising Star Award

  • Napoleon Akolgo - University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
  • Michael Joel Apas - West Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust 
  • Jerome Caducoy - Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust  
  • Sana Gul - Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust  
  • Yasmin Khanagha - Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 
  • Nkiruka Nduka - The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust 
  • Stefania Omagbon - Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust  
  • Harmony Owhotake - Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust 
  • Isabel Patrick - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust 
  • Paulo Pengson - Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 
  • Jordan Spires - Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust 

    • Care of Older People

  • Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - Family and Carer Support Booklet: A guide for end-of-life care at home
  • Dementia UK - Frailty and physical health consultant nurse service
  • DHU Healthcare - Community virtual ward
  • East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust - Dementia specific volunteer service
  • East Cheshire NHS Trust - Enhanced support and admission avoidance in care homes
  • Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust - Proactive Ageing Well Service
  • North East London NHS Foundation Trust - Collaborative care: Enhancing frailty management through nurse-pharmacist partnerships
  • Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - Hydration chart initiative
  • Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust - Rapid Assessment and Diagnostic Service
  • Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - Improve outcomes for patients experiencing delirium
  • Sanctuary Care - Clinical Strategy for 2024-2026
  • South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust - Improving delirium and dementia care through implementation of modified hospital elder life program

    • Children’s Services

  • Airedale NHS Foundation Trust - Providing psychological care for neonatal families and babies affected by substance abuse
  • Barts Health NHS Trust and North East London Integrated Care Board - Improving outcomes and reducing visits: The role of family liaison nursing in paediatric emergency care
  • Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust - Through Our Eyes: Shaping safer, more effective care through the lived experience of children looked after
  • Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board - Positive Directions: Trauma informed vanguard project
  • Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust - One chance to get it right: The role of the family liaison nurse in unexpected child death in the emergency department
  • East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust - Developing a toolkit to support the identification of childhood exploitation in acute settings
  • Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust - Connect website
  • Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust - Digital waiting list reviews
  • Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Neonatal family video and 3D tour
  • Shooting Star Children's Hospices - Hospice based perinatal palliative care clinical nurse specialist in reach service
  • South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust - Healthy Heads: Mental health support team
  • South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust - Healthy Minds Team: Improving access to mental health services in schools

    • Clinical Research Nursing

  • Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust - A Centre Of Research for Nurses and Midwives - inspiring, supporting and developing research experience and leadership through a dedicated fellowship programme
  • Newcastle GP Services - Research in stealth mode
  • Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust - Nurses Research Interns
  • St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust  - Nurse-Led Café: connecting African-Caribbean communities with dementia research
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust - Integrated critical care research program
  • Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust - Nursing associates working within a clinical research setting

    • Sponsored By

    Continence Promotion and Care

  • Association of Stoma Care Nurses - Advancing stoma care services
  • Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust - Care home resource pack
  • Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust - Shifting the dial – hospital to community catheter care
  • Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - #PreventionOverCure: Ketamine induced uropathy harm reduction work
  • Cleveland Clinic London - Introduction to female urodynamics for urogynaecology nurses
  • Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - Enhancing Clinical Education: A university module on adult and paediatric bladder and bowel dysfunction
  • Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Safe and sustainable continence care in stroke
  • HCA Healthcare - Catheterisation: Getting it right through education

    • Critical and Emergency Care Nursing

  • Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance - Urgent Cancer Care programme
  • Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust - One chance to get it right: The role of the family liaison nurse in unexpected child death in the emergency department
  • East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust - The greener emergency response system
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - Improving care for pregnant and recently pregnant patients in adult critical care
  • Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - Palliative care at the front door
  • Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Safe sleep in infants under one
  • Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Respiratory support unit sensory equipment
  • Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust - Multi Agency Safeguarding and Support Team
  • Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Enhanced recovery unit
  • The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust - Maintaining kidney health in ileostomy patients: A nurse-led approach to reducing acute kidney injury
  • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust - Digital mental health referral form

    • Dame Elizabeth Anionwu Award for Inclusivity in Nursing and Midwifery

  • Barts Health NHS Trust - Equity in Pressure Care: Educating for skin tone diversity
  • King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Embedding equality, diversity, and inclusion principles into research settings
  • NHS Grampian - Promoting heart health
  • South Yorkshire Primary Care Workforce and Training Hub - ReSTORE refugee nursing programme
  • Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust - Homeless health inclusion team
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust - International nurse development project
  • University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust - Alright my liver?
  • Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance and Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust - Supporting NHS Veteran Aware Healthcare: Personalising holistic care for the Armed Forces community
  • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust - The Otis Project

    • Infection Prevention and Control

  • Dartford and Gravesham NHS Foundation Trust - Housekeeper infection prevention and control champions
  • East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust - CLEAN campaign
  • Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust - Optimising infection prevention and control in Sussex Community intermediate care units: Enhancing utilisation of the Infection Risk Assessment Tool
  • Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust - Promoting a proactive and preventative IPC culture within adult social care
  • HCA Healthcare - Quality improvement to minimise bloodstream infections in parenteral nutrition patients
  • Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - Blood culture pathway project
  • Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust - Reduce Group: A streptococcus wound infection
  • Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust - Clostridioides difficile reduction initiative
  • Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust - Mouthcare in Healthcare: A pneumonia prevention strategy

    • Ingrid Fuchs Cancer Nursing Award

  • Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance  - Urgent Cancer Care programme
  • Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust - Enhanced supportive care within hepato-pancreato-biliary cancer
  • Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust - Acute oncology nurses working in the emergency department
  • Macmillan Cancer Support - The Cancer Professionals Podcast
  • Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust - Engaging prostate cancer patients to improve specialist nursing care
  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Advancing care for teenagers and young adults through specialist support
  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Nurse-led follow-up pathway for gestational trophoblastic disease
  • Suffolk GP Federation Community Interest Company - Very Important Invitation
  • UK Oncology Nursing Society - The CASCADE Project: Co-designing and evaluating standardised competency assessment in acute oncology
  • Ulster University and South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust - Family-centred cancer care

    • Learning Disabilities Nursing

  • Belfast Health and Social Care Trust - Kelly Anderson
  • Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust - Keeping my chest healthy
  • Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust - Improving awareness, documentation and care of bowel movements in learning disabilities and autism
  • King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Learning disability simulation
  • Mark Gray Associates - Mark James Gray
  • Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - Helping prospective parents with learning disabilities
  • Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Nottinghamshire University Hospitals NHS Trust - Learning disability bowel screening project
  • Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust - The Menopause: Knowledge and experiences of women with learning disabilities and autistic women
  • Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership - Assertive outreach
  • Sheffield Hallam University and South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board - Autism and learning disability nurse champion

    • Midwife of the Year

  • Katie Christie - East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
  • Shaunna-Leigh Clarris - Swansea Bay University Health Board
  • Leisa Foad - East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
  • Melissa Griffin - University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
  • Holly Ingram - Anglia Ruskin University 
  • Dalvir Kandola - University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust 
  • Clare Robinson - University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust 
  • Billie Wallace - HCA Healthcare  

    • Nurse Leader of the Year

  • Adama Nyama Bah - Women’s Health Advocacy Network 
  • Jodie Boyle - Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust 
  • Sabrina Brame - Modality Partnership 
  • Carlo Examen - HCA Healthcare 
  • Emma Firth - Practice Plus Group 
  • Carol Fowler - Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust  
  • Joan Pons Laplana - NHS England
  • May Parsons - Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust  
  • Laura Reynolds - Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust  
  • Rohit Sagoo - British Sikh Nurses 
  • Joan Spencer - The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre 
  • Melanie Stephens - University of Salford 

    • Nurse of the Year

  • Theresa Carey - Nuffield Health 
  • Teenagh Coughlan - Locala Health and Wellbeing 
  • Luxmi Dhoonmoon - London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust 
  • Stacey Griffiths - Sirona Care and Health 
  • Reb Kean - Practice Plus Group
  • Tracey Long - Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
  • Gerri Mortimore - University of Derby
  • Jackie Napper - Tower House Surgery 
  • Ian Noonan - Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
  • Teresa O'Nwere-Tan - Nexus Health Group and NHS South East London Integrated Care Board 
  • Alison Taylor - The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre 


    • Sponsored By

    Nursing in Mental Health

  • Achieve Together - Forensic mental health pathways for autistic people and adults with learning disabilities
  • Nightingale Hospital - Transforming addiction treatment through patient inclusion
  • Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust - Think Family outreach team
  • Dementia UK - Dementia – what next
  • Holmusk and North East London NHS Foundation Trust - Management and Supervision Tool in community mental health services
  • Hywel Dda University Health Board - School In-Reach Mental Health Services: Pembrokeshire CAMHS Team
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust - Reducing self-harm in female acute mental health through DBT informed psychological intervention
  • North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust - Embedding coproduction and lived experience in practice
  • Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - Risk Redefined: Child and adolescent mental health services narrative approach to assessment and support
  • South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust - Enhancing healthcare professional training: Investigating renal impairment in severe mental illness
  • South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust - Healthy heads – mental health support team
  • West London NHS Trust - Advancing De-Escalation Skills: A highly engaging approach using empathy 2.0
  • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust - Digital mental health referral form

    • Nursing in Primary Care

  • Court Street Medical Practice - Step up to step down the carbon footprint
  • eMed GP at Hand and Tower Hamlets GP Care Group Community Interest Company - Transforming care for people with type 2 diabetes
  • Hyde Primary Care Network - Dementia case management service
  • Modality Partnership - Breaking barriers, building trust – a nursing model for inclusive care beyond clinical settings
  • Nexus Health Group and NHS South East London Integrated Care Board - EmpowerHeart: Community initiative
  • North West London Training Hub - Nursing workforce development initiative
  • Nottinghamshire Alliance Training Hub - General practice nurse mid-career fellowship
  • Park View Surgery (East Riding of Yorkshire) - Delaying and preventing the onset of type 2 diabetes
  • Primary Care 24 - Transforming access to healthcare for homeless and vulnerable patients in Sefton
  • Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - Paediatric high-risk asthma clinics
  • Suffolk GP Federation Community Interest Company - Very Important Invitation
  • West Norfolk Coastal Primary Care Network, Kings Lynn Primary Care Network and Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust - Leg ulcer project collaboration

    • Nursing in Social Care

  • Amore Group - Integrated clinical workforce development programme
  • Birmingham Hospice - Social hub
  • Maria Mallaband Care Group - Implementing ally acoustic monitoring at Kingsbury Court
  • Healthcare Ireland - Breaking Barriers, Building Bonds: Activities making a difference
  • Sanctuary Care - Clinical strategy for 2024 - 2026

    • Nursing in the Community

  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - A quality improvement project: enhancing leg ulcer care delivery
  • Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust - Transforming Community Catheter Care: Embedding TWOC and passport protocol for safer practice
  • Dementia UK - Frailty and physical health consultant nurse service
  • Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - Student autonomous visits in community setting
  • Inizio Engage - n-MABS infusion service
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust - Providing an integrated additional support pathway
  • Primary Care 24 - Transforming access to healthcare for homeless and vulnerable patients in Sefton
  • South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Acute Federation - A Pilot Project: Implementing digitally enabled paediatric virtual ward
  • Suffolk GP Federation Community Interest Company - Very Important Invitation
  • Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust - Homeless health inclusion team
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust - The Blended Roles programme

    • Patient Safety Improvement

  • Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Early optimisation and ultra-enhanced recovery pathway in elective colorectal surgery
  • East Cheshire NHS Trust - Enhanced support and admission avoidance in care homes
  • Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - Breathe Better: A quality of life project for pleural effusions
  • NHS Elect - Empowering nurses to elevate thrombolysis rates in acute stroke care
  • North East London NHS Foundation Trust - Collaborative care: Enhancing frailty management through nurse-pharmacist partnerships
  • Primary Care 24 - Transforming access to healthcare for homeless and vulnerable patients in Sefton
  • Somerset NHS Foundation Trust - Safer 1:1 observation and support
  • South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Early Palliative Intervention Care Team: Early palliative support at cancer diagnosis
  • South Yorkshire Primary Care and Workforce Training Hub - ReSTORE refugee nursing programme
  • The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust - Prioritising pain quality – elevating every patient's journey
  • University Hospitals of North Midlands - Transforming lower limb wound care in plastic and orthopaedic surgery through collaboration, innovation and expert leadership
  • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust - The Welcome to SAL film


    • Sponsored By


    Public Health Nursing

  • Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust - Perinatal mental health campaign – 'My Baby and Me' and 'Bump in the Road'
  • Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - Specialist integrated family support team
  • Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust - Normalising and increasing breastfeeding in Hull
  • Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - The ACTIVE group for alcohol services across Merseyside and Cheshire
  • Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Improving the school health team emotional wellbeing support offer to teenagers
  • Northumbria University - CHINS and LATCHES: Memory aides to support breastfeeding practice
  • Suffolk GP Federation Community Interest Company - Very Important Invitation
  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Maternal vaccination service
  • Whittington Health NHS Trust - Think Family – strengthening links between adult mental health, perinatal mental health and universal child services
  • York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Increasing cervical screening in a sexual health service in York and North Yorkshire
  • YourStance - YourStance zero responder sessions

    • Sustainability in Nursing and Midwifery

  • Black Country Integrated Care Board - Greener care and sustainability in care homes
  • East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust - Greener emergency response system
  • Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Safe and sustainable continence care in stroke
  • HCA Healthcare - Gloves Off campaign
  • HCA Healthcare - SACT pre-treatment education
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - Medicine Return Project
  • Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust - Leave the Paper Behind: Reducing the environmental impact of postal communication with service users
  • Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust - Surgical admissions and procedure unit: New patient property bag
  • Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust - Self‑removal of catheters after robot‑assisted radical prostatectomy
  • University of Brighton, Intensive Care Society, Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, UK Critical Care Nursing Alliance - Intensive Care Environmental Sustainability Recipe Book

    • Team of the Year

  • Barts Health NHS Trust - Nurses deploying all over the world responding to disease outbreaks, climate emergency and conflicts
  • CapitalNurse - CapitalNurse consortium
  • Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance - Urgent cancer care programme
  • Doncaster Wound Care Alliance - Improving wound outcomes through collaborative system reform
  • Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust - The SSI Team: Implementing and scaling a new service
  • London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust - Critical care initiatives
  • Nuffield Health - Wessex Hospital Spinal Service Team
  • Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust - Multi Agency Safeguarding and Support Team
  • South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust - Delirium and Dementia Outreach Team: Providing integrated care to patients with delirium and dementia
  • Suffolk GP Federation Community Interest Company - Very Important Invitation
  • The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust - Virtual ward
  • Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust and The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust - Thrive Together: A collaborative framework for lifelong learning


    • Sponsored By

    Technology and Data in Nursing

  • Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - Unveiling congenital heart disease in primary care through a digital dashboard
  • Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care System - East of England multi-professional healthcare learner toolkit app
  • Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust - Virtual Care, Real Impact: Revolutionising acute services with a tech-enabled virtual ward
  • NHS Elect - Nurse-led data and technology-driven transformation of thrombolysis in acute stroke care
  • Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust - Flow: A collaborative service evaluation for people experiencing depression
  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Building Digital and Data Literacy: A clinical education team for nursing, midwifery, and allied health professions
  • Sirona Care and Health - Improving wound care outcomes through digital innovation
  • South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Acute Federation - A Pilot Project: Implementing digitally enabled paediatric virtual ward
  • University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and FutureNurse - Excellence accreditation framework
  • Worksights - RateMyShift
  • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust - Emergency department escalation assurance dashboard

    • The King's Award for Integrated Approaches to Care

  • Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board - Positive Directions: Trauma informed vanguard project
  • Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - Enhancing quality of life in type 1 diabetes and cognitive impairment
  • Milk Bank at Chester - The Memory Milk Gift Initiative – lactation choices following an antenatal diagnosis
  • NHS Elect - Improving Stroke Recovery: Empowering nurses to enhance patient well-being
  • Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust - Engaging prostate cancer patients to improve specialist nursing care
  • Suffolk GP Federation Community Interest Company - Very Important Invitation
  • Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust - Homeless health inclusion team
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust - The Blended Roles programme
  • The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust - Maintaining kidney health in ileostomy patients: A nurse-led approach to reducing acute kidney injury
  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - A nurse-led advance care planning clinic for people with Huntington's disease
  • University of East Anglia - Norfolk initiative for coastal and rural health equalities fellowship programme


    • Sponsored By

    Theatre and Surgical Nursing

  • Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Early optimisation and ultra-enhanced recovery pathway in elective colorectal surgery
  • Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Enhancing paediatric care of post-op patients experiencing emergence delirium
  • East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust - Transforming preoperative assessments with AI
  • King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Enhanced recovery after surgery for neurosurgery spine
  • Nuffield Health - Spinal surgery framework
  • Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - Plastic surgery innovation project – plastics minor procedures theatre
  • Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust - Improving admission and discharge pathways for children and young people
  • Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust - Theatre Academy
  • The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust - Joint School: Pre-operative preparation for hip and knee arthroplasty patients
  • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust - The Welcome to SAL film
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