Celebrating Excellence Awards 2024

Our annual Celebrating Excellence Awards recognise our exceptional individuals and teams for their dedication and commitment to our vision: ‘creating high quality, compassionate care and wellbeing for all’ and our values of compassion, respect, integrity and trust.

We’re excited to announce this year’s fully-sponsored awards ceremony will be back on the evening of Friday 11 October 2024.

The awards are a superb opportunity to celebrate the significant contribution of Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) staff and volunteers, and to share their achievements for the wider benefit of patients, service users and staff.

A big thank you to Tilbury Douglas, our headline sponsor for this year’s event.

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Nominations for the Celebrating Excellence Awards 2024 

Nominations for this year’s Celebrating Excellence Awards are now closed.

All nominees receive a thank you letter from our chief executive. All shortlisted nominees and their nominators will be invited to the awards ceremony on the evening of Friday 11 October.

Our 2024 finalists

Team of the Year Award

This award recognises teams who work flexibly and collaboratively, with a ‘can do’ approach to overcoming barriers, delivering continuous improvements for patients, service users and/ or staff.

• Mental Health Neighbourhood Leads
• Primary Care Liaison Nurse Team
• CAMHS Outpatients Team
• Coalville Ward 2 (Grace Dieu)

Excellence in Research Award

 This award recognises individuals who have driven the use of research for improvements, undertaken exemplary research or exceeded expectations around involving patients, services users and/or staff in research studies.

• Maria Dale and GUIDE-HD team
• Lois Dugmore
• Lesley Weaving

Excellence in Leadership Award

This award recognises exemplary inclusive, compassionate leadership that demonstrates a positive and sustained impact on patients, service users, carers and staff.

• Alpana Marwaha
• Siouxie Nelson
• Claire Turvey and Sam Branston

Volunteer of the Year Award

Awarded to an individual volunteer or team of volunteers who volunteer for LPT and have made an outstanding contribution to helping LPT go above and beyond.

• Jean Denyer
• Sue Jordan
• Anna Oliiynk

Learner of the Year Award

This award recognises a commitment to personal and professional development, utilising the knowledge and skills gained through undertaking learning programmes for the benefit of services and/or patient care.

• Katherine Hawker
• Sally Green
• Dr Sewanu Awhangansi

Excellence in Quality Improvement and Innovation Award

This award recognises an outstanding commitment to quality improvement and innovation, that has resulted in measurable benefits for LPT’s patients, service users and/or staff.

• Denise Webbe, Jo Reade, Paula McKee, Oli Kyle and Alex Mantle for Lunch Box Hero Website Game
• Stephanie Bates
• Waterlily Team

Delivering Exceptional Care Award

Awarded to a team or individual who has delivered exceptional care.

• Dr Jennifer Hughes
• Ashok Bhawsar
• Sandeep Hingley

Valuing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award

This award recognises those who demonstrate an outstanding commitment to valuing and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion for service users and/or staff.

• Judy Eggett
• School Aged Immunisation Service
• Jessica Mhesuria

Excellence in Enabling Services Award

This award recognises the work undertaken by our enabling services to support the Trust to create high quality compassionate care and wellbeing for all.

• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Team
• Jackie Moore and Steve Woodier
• Compliance, Regulation and Quality Team

Excellence in Partnerships Award

This award recognises work to develop integrated, person-centred services through multi-agency working/ partnership arrangements with local agencies, voluntary organisations and community groups which has brought about positive outcomes.

• CHS Flow Team
• LDA Collaborative Health Checks and Access to Primary Care Group
• Emma Kettle, Geraldine Hirscher and team

Excellence in Patient or Service User Involvement Award

This award recognises teams, patient and staff collaborations or projects that have used innovative or outstanding practice to involve patients, service users or carers in continuously improving their services.

• Debbie Whight and Family and Friends Support Group
• Natalie Leggett
• Clinical Academic Team

Group Excellence Award

This award is to celebrate teams, projects or initiatives from across the Leicestershire Partnership and Northamptonshire Healthcare Associate University Group.

• Colin Cross and Janet Harrison
• Kate Dyer and Richard Smith
• DREAMS Study Team

Unsung Hero of the Year Award

Selected by the Chair and Chief Executive of the Trust, this award recognises an individual for their exceptional practice or contribution to LPT.

• Kirsty Lester
• Laurette Grace
• Joanne Applewhite

Categories for Celebrating Excellence Awards 2024

The following award categories recognise the diverse ways in which our Trust delivers excellence for our patients, service users and staff:

1. Team of the Year Award
2. Delivering Exceptional Care Award
3. Excellence in Enabling Services Award
4. Excellence in Research Award
5. Excellence in Leadership Award
6. Excellence in Quality Improvement or Innovation Award
7. Learner of the Year Award
8. Excellence in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award
9. Volunteer of the Year Award
10. Unsung Hero of the Year Award (special award presented by our CEO/Chair)
11. Excellence in Partnerships Award
12. Excellence in Patient or Service User Involvement Award
13. Group Excellence Award

View the criteria for each award

Further information

For further information about the Celebrating Excellence Awards 2024, please contact the Communications Team: lpt.communications@nhs.net

Sponsorship

Thank you to our sponsors for helping us to put on this year’s awards.

Headline sponsor

Tilbury Douglas

Other sponsors

• HCRG
• CPC Drive in partnership with Tusker