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Team QEH Awards 2023

The Team QEH Awards celebrate the exceptional efforts of our Trust staff and volunteers who have made a positive impact on our services, patients, visitors, and colleagues.

This year we received over 500 nominations across 11 categories. Each nomination tells a unique story of our dedicated teams, staff and volunteers, and it makes us enormously proud to hear of the many ways that colleagues have gone that extra mile to deliver safe and compassionate care to our patients and their families.

Each category has now been shortlisted by our judging panel and we are delighted to share this year's shortlist with you.

Category criteria

Exceptional Quality of Care Award - sponsored by exi Group

This award recognises an individual or team who has made an outstanding contribution to improving the quality or care that an individual patient or group of patients receive.

Daniel Stolady - Consultant Anaesthetics
Mona Mahmoud - Clinical Fellow
Stacy Metcalfe - Specialist Dietician

Clinical Team of the Year Award - sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) LLP

This award recognises a clinical team that has gone above and beyond the call of duty and has made an outstanding difference to our patients. The team will be an exemplar in working together effectively to deliver clear benefits for patients and their families.

Dermatology
North Cambs Hospital Pathology
Same Day Emergency Care

Non-Clinical Team of the Year Award

This award will be presented to a non-clinical team that has gone above and beyond the call of duty and has made an outstanding difference to colleagues by providing a support service that enables the smooth running of the organisation.

Cancer Wellbeing Support Centre
Catering Department
Portering Team

One to Watch Award

NEW FOR 2023 - This award recognises an individual in the early stages of their current career. They may have had a career change or just be starting out in their working life. Either way they will have made a notable achievement in their time at QEH.

Emma Hurn - Assistant Practitioner, Breast Care Unit
Jade Smalley - Student Pharmacy Technician
Mollie Frary - Junior Sister, Feltwell Ward

Leader of the Year Award

An award that recognises brilliant leadership by an individual who demonstrates a positive and sustained impact on patients, service users, carers and/or staff whilst role modelling our values.

Bronia Milburn - Ward Manager, Leverington Ward
Daisy Moll - Ward Manager, Gayton Ward
Katie Honney - Consultant, Care of the Elderly

Outstanding Achievement in Innovation - sponsored by NICHE Anchor Institute

This award will be presented to an individual or team that demonstrates dedication and creative thinking to develop or improve services for our patients and / or learners.

Enamur Rahman - Trust Doctor, General Surgery
Feltwell Ward
Udara Wickramanayake - ST, Emergency Department

The Kindness Award

The winner of this award will have been an exceptional role model for kindness, whether this is toward patients or colleagues. They will always treat people with kindness and be friendly and approachable.

Geminick Siriban - Charge Nurse, Feltwell Ward
Nagappan Kumar - Anaesthetics
Suzanne Marsters - Healthcare Assistant - Feltwell Ward

The Wellness Award

This award will be open to an individual who promotes and improves the wellbeing of their team. They may not be a manager but will be looking out for their team members, or wider QEH colleagues from a personal or collective wellness perspective. This could be physical or emotional.

Felicity Gruneberg - Midwife and Central Delivery Coordinator, Central Delivery Suite
Liz Kershaw - Assistant Practitioner, Rehabilitation Team
Sarah Stevens - Healthcare Assistant, Feltwell Ward

The Fairness Award

This award will be presented to an individual who promotes fairness, equality, diversity, and inclusion for patients and / or staff.

Geminick Siriban - Charge Nurse, Feltwell Ward
Jaymee Holman - Digital Service Desk Analyst, ICT
Jolene Rosario - Consultant, Emergency Medicine

The John Voaden Volunteer of the Year Award

The winner of this category will be chosen by public vote

This award recognises and honours an outstanding individual or team who regularly volunteers their time and talent at Team QEH. This winner will have made a significant contribution to the experience of our patients, their families and/or our staff.

Barbra-Anne Howard - St. John Ambulance Library and Leverington Ward
Jim Tripp - Rudham Ward
Pat McCallum - Front Desk and Macmillan Cancer Care and Treatment Centre

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Unsung Hero Award

NEW FOR 2023 - This award will be presented to an individual who may not come into contact with patients on a daily basis but whose work consistently contributes to the smooth running of the hospital.

Caroline Gisborne - Pastoral Support and Accommodation Coordinator, Return to Practice
Neville Brooks - ICT Service Desk Team Leader, ICT
Paula Jones - Support Manager, Women & Children's Direct Management

Meet our sponsors

Exceptional Quality of Care Award - sponsored by exi Group

exi Group are a multi-disciplinary design and construction consultancy providing a full suite of services including project management, cost consultancy, strategic and technical advisory, design, building services, engineering and digital management.

Clinical Team of the Year - sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoooers (PwC) LLP

PwC are a network of firms in 152 countries with nearly 328,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, advisory and tax services.

Oustanding Achievement in Innovation Award - sponsored by NICHE Anchor Institute

The Norfolk Initiative for Coastal and rural Health Equalities (NICHE), has been funded by Health Education England (East of England) to support Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System to co-create projects that will help to recruit, develop and retain the health and social care workforce and improve services to meet the needs of the local communities it serves.

Supporting Sponsor - Palm Paper Limited

Our fourth sponsor is Palm Paper Limited. Based in King’s Lynn, Palm Paper is a UK based Paper specialist covering a wide range of paper grades for the UK market. These include Newsprint for national and regional newspapers and Corrugated case papers for the production of corrugated boxes.

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