Our achievements

Posted on 2 Oct 2023

A Nottinghamshire Healthcare colleague has won an award in the 2023 National Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Health and Care Awards. The National BAME Health and Care Awards celebrate BME staff and networks across British health and social care, who are making significant improvements in BME career development support and forging better healthcare initiatives for their communities.

Danielle Haddon, Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist at Nottinghamshire Healthcare won the Clinician AHP Champion Award category.

Ifti Majid, Chief Executive at Nottinghamshire Healthcare said:

“Huge congratulations to Danielle on winning this award. As an organisation we are committed to a culture of diversity, fairness and equality for all our employees, potential employees, service users, carers and members of the public.

“Danielle has worked exceptionally hard to create a group that promotes and develops inclusion and celebrates diversity and allyship. This is something which is really important to us, so it’s absolutely fantastic to see Danielle’s work in this area recognised on a national platform.”

Danielle won the award for her work on the Allied Health Professionals (AHP) Race Diversity Group. The group has been running for a few years now and is led by Danielle and Harvir Purawal, Dietitian.

Over the last few years the group has been a great source of support to AHPs of BME background, providing a space to share what has been happening across the Trust / AHP Professional Advisory Group (PAGs). It has also provided opportunities to influence at various levels across the Trust including policies, interview questions and innovation.

The AHP Race Diversity Group promotes and develops a culture of inclusion, and celebrates diversity and Allyship for all AHPs. It also promotes and improves opportunities for career advancement of our Trust AHP BME colleagues. As well as celebrating and sharing good practice of greater awareness of AHP diversity and improved experience of BME colleagues.

Danielle said:

“I am so proud to win this award and really proud of the group. It aims to raise awareness and learn from AHP diversity issues and experiences which impact on AHP service delivery, quality, staff experience, staff development, and retention. It also supports the agenda of widening participation and interest in AHP careers from different BME backgrounds.

“I am very passionate about language and communication needs within our client groups, but also in raising and developing the awareness of the contribution and impact AHPs make across our populations and diverse workforce. The group does really important work and we’re delighted to see it recognised nationally”.

“This national recognition helps to raise the profile of our BAME AHP colleagues and students. Special thanks to Dr Della Money and Suzanne Avington, Associate Directors of AHPs ,for their allyship and leadership”

Maxine Davis, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Lead was also shortlisted in the Inspiring Diversity and Inclusion Lead category. 

Since coming into post she has been an inspiring leader in ensuring that the voices of our diverse workforce are heard, and the voices of BME patients are acted upon.

See The National BAME Health and Care Awards website for more on the awards.