Winners of NNUH Staff Awards 2017
Thirty-one individuals and 13 teams have just received Staff Awards at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and Cromer & District Hospital in recognition of their outstanding efforts and achievements. The awards were presented at a special ceremony held at OPEN in Norwich on 20th October.
The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust runs an annual awards scheme for its 7,500 staff and for staff employed by its service provider Serco. Patients and colleagues have been able to nominate employees in 14 award categories, such as leadership, clinical teaching, patient care, research and lifetime achievement.
Chairman John Fry says: “It’s such a pleasure to be able to recognise those employees who patients and colleagues feel have gone above and beyond the call of duty.
“It is also important to recognise those who dedicate their working lives, some of them for 40 years, to our hospitals. The response to the awards was overwhelming with over 700 entries from all staff groups with many also from patients with heart-warming stories to tell. This made it really hard to pick out the finalists and winners”
The awards have been sponsored by Serco which provides a range of services at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, including catering and cleaning. The Patient Choice Award is backed by the Eastern Daily Press.
The award ceremony also recognised those employees who had achieved long service of 25 or 40 years’. Those receiving 40 year service awards at the event were:
Daphne Beckett, Medical Secretary; Christine Benjafield, Staff Nurse; Peter Coe, EPA Network Microbiology Manager; Sylvia Cooper, Receptionist; Sheila Crisp, Staff Midwife; Laura Crowe, Sister ENT Outpatients; Jennifer Dunne, Co-ordinator, Linda Faherty, Assistant Catering manager, Serco; Kathleen Hate, Registered Nurse Rheumatology.
Serco award
Winner: Simon Cockshaw, Post Room Porter
Silver awards:
Jessica Neave Kitchen Assistant
Kenny Davies Domestic
Apprentice of the Year
Non-clinical winner: Brogan Henry, Delivery Suite
Clinical winner: Rhiannon Forder, EAUS
Volunteer of the Year
Joint winners: Paul Arnold and Dave Massey
Silver awards:: Sharon Kelvie and the Cromer Dialysis volunteer team
Team of the Year
Winner: Workplace Health and Wellbeing
Silver awards:
IT Department
Cromer Dialysis (including Volunteers)
Ward of the Year
Winner: Edgefield Ward
Silver awards:
GMDU Gunthorpe
Heydon Neurology
Unsung Hero non-clinical
Winner: Helen Dove, Locum Co-ordinator
Silver awards:
Cerys Morey, Datix Systems Administrator
Tracy Oliver, Research Administrator
Unsung Hero clinical
Winner: Debbie Wright, Discharge Co-ordinator
Silver awards:
Ruth Harcourt, Breast Reconstruction Nurse
Mr Nikos Burbos, Consultant Gynaecological Oncologist
Employee of the Year
Winner: Joanne Thomas, Clinical Operations Manager, Radiotherapy
Silver awards:
Louise Laing, Sister, Earsham Ward
Leah Stolworthy, Directorate Operational Manager, Medicine
Leadership
Winner: Anita Bayes, Sister, Oral Health
Silver awards:
Frances Bolger, Head of Midwifery
Clive Beech, Deputy Chief Pharmacist
Clinical Teacher
Winner: Prof Richard Ball, Consultant in Histopathology
Silver awards:
Patricia Black, Clinical Radiology Lecturer
Rebecca Cozens, Training Manager for Eastern Pathology Alliance
Research Award
Joint Winners: CRTU team and the Orthopaedic Clinical Research Team
Patient Choice individual
Winner: Katherine Duffield, Diabetes Specialist Nurse
Silver awards:
Carla Amaro, Assistant Practitioner, Elsing Ward
Mr Bhaskar Kumar, Consultant Surgeon
Patient Choice team
Winner: Cley Gynae ward
Silver awards:
Hethel Ward
Brundall Ward
Outstanding Contribution to the Norfolk Health System
Winner: Integrated Discharge Team
Edith Cavell – Healthcare Assistant of the Year
Winner: Elizabeth Tyms, Healthcare Assistant, AMU
Edith Cavell – Nurse of the Year
Winner: Anna Ramm, Junior Sister, Cley Ward
Lifetime Achievement
Winners:
Chris Parfitt, Matron, Respiratory Medicine
John Skrypniuk, Consultant Clinical Scientist, Nuclear Medicine
Peter Coe, EPA Network Microbiology Manager