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Posted on 23 Oct 2023

The first ever NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Health and Care Awards is taking place on 24 October and Nottinghamshire Healthcare colleagues are shortlisted in five nominations. All have been shortlisted for their dedication to working together to provide outstanding care.

The awards have been organised to celebrate success across the Integrated Care System - a partnership of NHS services, local authorities, public sector and voluntary organisations. The awards are being run in partnership with the Nottinghamshire Lieutenancy as part of their commitment to mark 75 years of the NHS.

Ifti Majid, Chief Executive at Nottinghamshire Healthcare said:

“It’s fantastic to have so many colleagues shortlisted in these awards. Partnership working is key to providing the very best care to the people in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, and these teams and individuals are demonstrating their commitment to working together to deliver outstanding care. Wishing them all the best of luck for the ceremony”

A project for improving the uptake of health checks for people with learning disabilities from ethnic minority communities has been shortlisted in the Health Inequalities Award. The shortlisted project, led by Primary Care Liaison Nurse Helen Webster, is focused on improving the uptake and quality of annual health checks for the Black and ethnic minority learning disability population of Nottingham. Helen engaged with communities to better understand the barriers to accessing health checks, improve knowledge and understanding, and increase the uptake of the health check by providing personalised outreach support. 

Andrew Dobb, Family Support Worker and our Smokefree team have both been shortlisted in the Equity Award.

Andrew Dobb, Family Support Worker in the Community CAMHS South team has successfully engaged young people with a neurodiversity by using their specialist interests to build rapport, creating resources to meet their individual needs and offering flexibility around meetings and ways of communicating. Andrew has worked collaboratively with partnership agencies such as schools, educational psychologists and social care, and acted as an advocate for the young people to allow their thoughts to be heard. Andrew has also been proactive in supporting neurodiversity specialist practitioners and the wider network of CAMHS.

The Smokefree team are committed to empowering patients and ensuring that patient centred care is at the heart of their practice. They set up a bespoke stop smoking service within the community for patients with serious mental illness. The service helps to address the health inequalities and subsequent reduction in life expectancy. They also deliver training to patients both on wards and will be delivering lectures through the Nottingham Recovery College on a range of speciality topics including smoking and alcohol awareness and the smoking of illegal drugs. They also focus on training to address inequalities within the LGBTQ+ community.The team is now a national example of best practice and supports several other Mental Health Trusts with the implementation and facilitation of smokefree services, including the writing of their Smokefree and vaping policies and procedures.

In the Lord-Lieutenant’s Partnership Award category we are a partner in the Mental Health Support Steering Group and Veteran Care Through Custody team which have both been shortlisted. 

In Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Mental Health Support teams (MHSTs), provided by the Trust and Nottingham City Council, deliver evidence-based interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health and emotional wellbeing needs. They support the senior mental health lead role in each education setting, to develop their ‘Whole school/college approach’. They also give timely training and advice to school and college staff, to help children and young people get the right support to both improve their emotional wellbeing outcomes and to engage in education. A strong partnership approach has been key to local success. The partnership which drives forward MHSTs has coproduction at the core and consists of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB and Local Authority commissioners, health providers, education leads, co-production group ‘Leaders Unlocked’ and social care. 

The Veteran Care Through Custody project is a unique partnership between the Offender Health team at the Trust and the veteran’s charity Care after Combat. The project offers specialist healthcare and holistic wraparound services to veterans in prison and has so far transformed the lives of almost 500 veterans in Nottinghamshire and wider East Midlands region. A combination of veteran-specific clinical interventions from Notts Healthcare together with the wrap-around support of staff and volunteers from Care after Combat has seen incredible results in terms of health and wellbeing outcomes for some of our nation’s most vulnerable veterans.

Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on 24 October .