NUH News SPRING 2016 Online

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Volunteer of the Year Award
This Award is for an individual or team
(either registered NUH volunteers or ‘other’
volunteers) that has worked in partnership
with NUH, giving up their unpaid time for
the benefit of patients, carers and staff.
Nottingham Hospitals Charity
Champion Award
This Award recognises staff who
have dedicated their time and energy
to fundraising activities that benefit
Nottingham Hospitals Charity. They have
done this to support the Charity’s mission
to be at the heart of caring, for the benefit
of patients and the staff who have cared for
them.
Research Impact of the Year Award
For an individual, team or service that has
raised the profile of research.
Nominations should include evidence of at
least one of the following:
• Research taking place in a new part of
the organisation
• Leading campaigns that have increased
research participation by patients
• Working with the Life Sciences Industry
to deliver high quality research
• Initiatives to improve the patient
experience when taking part in research
• Service improvements, improved patient
outcomes and/or transformed routine
clinical practice by implementing clinical
research study findings
Team of the Year Award
Awarded to an outstanding team (clinical
or non-clinical) working anywhere within
the Trust, who deliver exceptional results
for patients/their colleagues/their service by
working together as a team to achieve their
goals.
Better Futures Award
Recognises individuals/teams who
demonstrate a commitment to the
community through:
• Environmentally-friendly initiatives
• Education, teaching, training and
learning opportunities
• Creating employment opportunities
• Community partnership
Outstanding Contribution
to Patient Care Award
In the year we celebrate 10 years of NUH,
we recognise an individual who has made
an exceptional contribution to patient care
over the last decade. The winner of this
award will be chosen by the NUH Chief
Executive, Peter Homa.
Celebrating our staff
Ela honoured at national NHS
apprenticeship awards
An NHS apprentice has been recognised
for making an outstanding contribution
to NUH.
Ela Roe, an apprentice working in
our HRdepartment, was one of 12
apprentices across England, each
representing a health region, who were
invited to meet Health Minister Ben
Gummer as part of the national NHS
apprenticeship awards in Westminster.
Ela said: “I really enjoy working at NUH
because of the amount of support I
receive from my colleagues and the
huge amount of opportunities I have
been given. The apprenticeship has
given me a practical insight into the job
Nottingham
Hospitals Radio is
multi-award winner
Congratulations to
Nottingham Hospitals
Radio for multiple wins at
the 2016 National Hospital
Radio awards.
that I would like to pursue in the future.
I am learning, while gaining valuable
experience.”
Nottingham doctor commended
for commitment to research
A consultant physician and Director of
Research and Innovation at NUH has
been presented with a special award for
his significant contribution to commercial
research in the NHS.
Dr Steve Ryder was one of five researchers
in the UK recognised by the National
Institute for Health Research (NIHR) for his
outstanding contribution to commercial
research over the past ten years.
The station won the
Bronze award for Best
Programme with Multiple
Presenters with The Jake
and Julie Show, Bronze
Award for Best Specialist
Music Programme with The
Country Store (presented
by Stephen Hall) and
Winners from our 2015
NUHonours Awards night
Silver Award for Best Male
Presenter – Rajiv Hasan.
The awards saw Rajiv go
one better than last year
when he won bronze for
the same award. Rajiv said
he is “delighted with the
results”. Fingers crossed
he’ll win the gold in 2017!
Midwives win national award
Staff from NUH have won one of the UK’s
top midwifery prizes at the Royal College
of Midwives’ (RCM) Annual Midwifery
Awards.
Midwives Josh Downey and Katie Jones
picked up the RCM I-Folio Award for
Partnership Working on behalf of the
Trust. The award was given for improved
team working in maternity services,
through the introduction of Shared
Governance.
Shared Governance sees frontline
midwives forming ‘councils’ with
decision making powers about services.
The councils work in collaboration
with managers to help bring about
improvements.
He said: “Commercial research provides
patients with access to many new drugs
and treatments, which can achieve better
clinical outcomes and potentially benefit
all NHS patients in the future. It has been
a real privilege to be involved in these lifechanging
studies.”
A further five researchers, based at NUH
and The University of Nottingham were
also recognised at the event. They were
Professor Philip Bath, Professor Stephen
Chan, Dr Patrick Davies, Dr Christopher
Gough and Professor Nikola Sprigg.
Sponsors 2016
Healthcare Science award
NUH has been named Healthcare
Scientist Provider Organisation of the
Year at the annual Chief Scientific
Officer Healthcare Science Awards.
The award is presented to those
provider organisations that support
and recognise the contribution of
healthcare science to high quality
patient services, not only within
healthcare science itself but more
broadly across the organisations with
multi-disciplinary teams and projects.