2019 NHS Healthcare Science Awards
2019 NHSHealthcareScienceAwardsThe Winners
CSO Shirley Fletcher Apprenticeship AwardMrs Mandy Scott and the Yorkshire and Humber Healthcare Science ApprenticeImplementation GroupLearning and Development Manager, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHSAs a regional group of HealthcareScience Service leads from all Trustsacross the Yorkshire and Humberregion, the group agreed animplementation plan for level 2,4 and 6apprenticeship programmes inhealthcare science across the region.Their work has ensured that highquality education providers, workingalongside Healthcare Sciencespecialists from all areas of theprofession, can deliver apprenticeshipto enable existing staff to follow anestablished career progression route.Excellence in Workforce DevelopmentSue Fergy, Ruth Thomsen, Anne Benson, Sue Nash, Kathleen O'Sullivan Kevin Wyke,Paul O'Neil, Ela Bardan, Fiona FiorentinoPractical Skills for ProfessionalEducation and Leadership inHealthcare Science ProgrammePSEL support healthcareprofessionals to be curious about thepotential for transformational changeboth within themselves and theirteams. The programme is aninnovative approach whichencourages individuals to turnthat curiosity into real, meaningfulchanges to encourage and growleadership skills.
Excellence in Health Research and InnovationMaria Paton, John Gierula, Judith LowryCardiac Physiologist Clinical Researchers, LeedsTeaching Hospitals NHS TrustThe group are a unique team of cardiac scientistscarrying out independent research to improve thelives of patients by personalising how weprogramme devices such as pacemakers andexploring new therapies. Their collaborationshave enabled them to be involved from design, allthe way to internationally disseminating theresults of innovative scientific research that canmake a real difference to patients immediately.Healthcare Science Partnering Patients and Citizens AwardDr Elaine Cloutman-Green and Nicola Baldwin Healthcare Science CollaborativeWriting ProjectTrust Lead Healthcare Scientist, Great OrmondStreet Hospital.The Healthcare Science Collaborative WritingProject is an innovative co-creation of the contentof a drama based on the lived experiences of bothHealthcare Scientists and patients. It focuses onusing their stories to discuss important topics, suchas isolation of patients and how scientists impacton the patient pathway.Excellence in Healthcare Delivery AwardDr. Warren FawleyScientific Lead for Clostridium difficile RibotypingNetwork for England and Northern Ireland(CDRN), Public Health EnglandWarren’s research and service development workhas centred around healthcare-associatedinfection, mainly the epidemiology and typing ofClostridium difficile. He was instrumental inestablishing the Clostridium difficile RibotypingNetwork for England and Northern Ireland(CDRN) for which he is Lead Scientist.
Excellence in Healthcare Quality AwardDr Debra BaldersonUHB HCS Education, Workforce &Diagnostics Accreditation Lead, UHB NHSFT (QEHB)The significance of this achievement forUHB/UKAS is that it is the first successfulwhole trust accreditation project in the UK.The team is now able to support the otherphysiological departments of the recentlyenlarged UHB trust, one of the biggest inEurope, and other Trusts, wishing to achieveUKAS accredited.Excellence in Improving Outcomes forPatientsDr Timothy McDonaldConsultant Clinical Scientist, Royal Devonand Exeter NHS Foundation TrustThe impact of Tim’s research is evidenced bymore than 60 publications, being invited as aclinical expert on both a NICE DAR and aCSO Academy of Medical Sciences roundtable on precision medicine in the NHS.Healthcare Science Contribution to PublicHealthDr Tom FowlerDeputy Chief Scientist, Genomics EnglandA genetic researcher by background, Tomhas become increasingly interested in howyou implement evidence in practice. What hereally cares about is how to take science andmake it work for people in the real world.
Healthcare Science Rising StarsSofia KordolaimiRadiotherapy Physics, NottinghamUniversity Hospitals NHS TrustSofia played a key part in theprotocol development andintroduction of new innovativeradiotherapy treatment inNottingham. Patients benefit fromshorter treatment times andreduced intra-fraction variation.Dr Stefan PiatekGreat Ormond Street Hospital, Bioinformatics TraineeStefan’s ongoing work detecting copy number variants has enabled evidence basedconfidence in results, saving both save time and money. With the limited resources availableand the numbers of tests only increasing, Stefan’s service development and multi-centrecollaboration has the potential to offer diagnosis for a greater number of patients.Healthcare Scientist of the Year AwardDr Sandi DeansSandi Deans is the National Laboratory and Scientific Lead within the NHS EnglandGenomics Team providing scientific oversight and leadership to support the delivery of theNHS National Genomic Medicine Service and the NHS contribution to the 100,000 GenomesProject.Sandi has been awardedHealthcare Scientist of the Yearfor her work building aninternational reputation in thedelivery and assessment of awide range of molecular andgenomic technologies inmodern healthcare. Sandi is aConsultant Clinical Scientistwhose personal andprofessional commitment toquality, safety andcomparability has been at theheart of her career journey –driving the improvement oflaboratory services across theNHS for patient and servicebenefit.
Healthcare Science Lifetime Achievement AwardProfessor Mark Tooley FREngMark is the President of the Instituteof Physics and Engineering inMedicine, He was the Head ofMedical Physics and Bioengineering,and the Director of Research andDevelopment at the Royal UnitedHospitals in Bath until he retired in2017. His career has been totally inthe NHS, working in Medical Physics& Bioengineering. Mark is aConsultant Clinical Scientist, aMedical Technologies Consultant, anHonorary Professor with theUniversity of Bath and a VisitingProfessor with the University of theWest of England.Healthcare Science Lifetime Contribution AwardVivienne Parry OBEA scientist by training, Vivienne Parryis a continual flag waver for NHSHealthcare Scientists and is theirself-confessed ‘biggest fan’.Vivienne hosts medical programmesfor Radio 4, writes widely on health,presents films, facilitates many highlevel conferences and debates andtrains young researchers. She alsohas a part time role as head ofengagement at Genomics Englandwhich is delivering the 100,000Genomes Project. In September2017 she was appointed to the boardof UK Research & Innovation.
Awards The Winners . CSO Shirley Fletcher Apprenticeship Award Mrs Mandy Scott and the Yorkshire and Humber Healthcare Science Apprentice Implementation Group Learning and Development Manager, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS As a regional group of Healthcare Science Service leads from all Trusts across the Yorkshire and Humber region, the group agreed an implementation plan for level 2,4 and .
West Middlesex Hospital Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHT) Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital St Mary's Hospital London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWUHT) Northwick Park Hospital The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (THH) Hillingdon Hospital The NHS trusts providing maternity care in North West London .
Awards open to both AHPs and healthcare scientists The NHS Employers award for outstanding achievement by an AHP or healthcare science apprentice, support worker or technician. Sponsored by NHS Employers High performing teams will recognise the contributions and strengths of individual members. In this award, NHS Employers wants to celebrate the positive contribution to patient outcomes made .
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of NHS Direct, and led the team preparing New Labour's first White Paper, The New NHS: Modern, dependable, which laid the foundations and structure for the current NHS reform programme. He was a member of the top management board of the NHS for 12 years, between 1988 and 2000. His earlier career included 23 years in NHS management,
Through the partnership between NHS England and the Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), the NIA is making an incredible impact on the NHS and the people it serves. As of February 2019, over 1,700 NHS sites are now using NIA innovations, with more than 79 million external funding raised, 287 jobs created, and 74 awards won.
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