BJN Awards Winners 2023

Cardiovascular Nurse of the Year

Winner: Ghazala Yasin, Nurse Consultant, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust


Silver - Alison Pottle, Consultant Nurse in Cardiology, Harefield Hospital

Bronze - Sue Armstrong, Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Arrhythmia and Devices, Glenfield Hospital

Chronic Oedema Nurse of the Year

Winner: Margaret Anne Garner, Lymphoedema Specialist, Strathcarron Hospice - NHS Forth Valley

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Silver - Joanne Dodd-Stokes and Lymphcare UK team, Lymphcare UK

Bronze - Rachel Mayall, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Lymphoedema Service, Rochdale Care Organisation

Continence Nurse of the Year

Winner: The RIISE Project


Silver - Newcastle Specialist Continence Service

Bronze - Arlene Dillon, Community Bladder and Bowel Nurse Specialist, Strathbrock Health Centre

Diabetes Nurse of Year

Winner: Nuru Clark, Diabetes Specialist Nurse, Barts Health NHS Trust

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Silver - Erwin Castro, Nurse consultant, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Bronze (joint) -  Maggie Shepherd, Lead Nurse for Research, and Honorary Clinical Professor of Monogenic Diabetes.

Bronze (joint)  - Monika Sciog, Diabetes Specialist Nurse Educator, Walton hospital

Gastrointestinal / IBD Nurse of the Year

Winner: Alcohol and Drug Liaison Service Royal Free Hospital


Silver - Elizabeth Burge and Rebecca Robbins, Senior Hepatology Specialist Nurses, Southampton General Hospital and Drug Services

Bronze - Shellie Radford, IBD Nurse Lead, Nottingham University Hospital

Infection Prevention Nurse of the Year

Winner: Eugenia Moyo and Beth Crossland, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Central and Northwest London NHS Foundation Trust


Silver - Catherine Wagland, Infection Control Matron, Moorfields Eye Hospital

Bronze - Pasqua Fitzgibbon & Amy Griffiths, IPC Harm Free Care Nurse Specialists, Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust

Innovation Award

Winner: Affinity Care Young Person Contact Team


Silver - Junior Carers, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Patient Experience Team

Bronze - Social Prescribing - Health in Justice, West Midlands Prisons

Lifetime Achievement Award

Winner: Dr Gail Adams OBE Head of Professional Services UNISON


Mental Health Nurse of the Year

Winner: Recovery Riders - Nursing Team Male PICU Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust


Silver - Jodie Kirby-Owens, Lead Nurse For Mental Health, Walsall Healthcare Trust working in collaboration with The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Bronze - Bespoke/Specialist Placement CLDT Southern Health and Social Care Trust

Nurse of the Year

Winner: Zarah Perry-Woodford, Consultant Nurse, St Mark’s Hospital

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Silver - Jackie Munro, Chief Nurse and Deputy CEO, Solent NHS Trust     

Bronze - Kerry Messam, Deputy Lead Nurse for Specialist Palliative and End of Life Care, Northampton General Hospital

Nutrition Nurse of the Year

Winner: Charlotte Rubio, Clinical & Speciality Lead Nutrition Nutrition Specialist, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

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Silver - Rosie Romeril, Nutrition Nurse Specialist, Bromley Healthcare

Bronze - Deborah Shrubsole, Clinical Nutrition Nurse Specialist, Isle of Wight NHS Trust - Community Division

Oncology Nurse of the Year

Winner: Samantha Westbrook, Peritoneal Mesothelioma Clinical Nurse Specialist, Peritoneal Malignancy Institute, Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital


Silver - Caroline Tweedie, Specialist Breast Care Nurse, Gateshead Health Foundation Trust

Bronze - Head & Neck Clinical Nurse Specialist Team, Southern Health and Social Care Trust

Public Health Nurse of the Year

Winner: Rukeya Miah, Associate Deputy Director of Nursing, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS FT


Silver - Nicola Dyke, Health Visitor, Rotherham Doncaster & South Humber NHS Trust

Bronze - Sara Jackson, Start Well Team Lead, Brinnington Start Well Centre
                            

Renal Nurse of the Year

Winner: Eduardo Lee, Renal Genomics Clinical Nurse Specialist, South East Genomic Medicine Service Alliance, Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital

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Silver - Zanab Bi, Renal Ward, Bradford Royal Infirmary


Bronze - Nicola Geraghty, Lead AKI/Renal Clinical Nurse Specialist, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Respiratory Nurse of the Year

Winner: Paediatric Respiratory and Allergy Nurse Consultant, Hillingdon Children's Asthma Team


Silver - Sarah Hennessey, Clinical Nurse Specialist - Chronic cough, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust        
   
Bronze - Debbie Roots, Cardiorespiratory Nurse Consultant

Stoma Care Nurse of the Year

Winner: Stoma Nursing Service, WHSCT, Shantallow Health Centre

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Silver - Stoma & Pouch Care Team, St Marks Hospital

Urology Nurse of the Year

Winner: Angharad Milosevic, Urology Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Urology Outpatients Churchill Hospital Oxford

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Silver - Jennifer Arnold, Prostate Cancer Nurse, Luton and Dunstable hospital

Bronze - Leann Mclaughlin, Uro-Oncology CNS, Inverclyde Royal Hospital

Vascular Access Nurse of the Year Award

Winner: Nicola York, Clinical Nurse Educator Vascular Access, pfm medical


Silver - Sue Rowlands, IV Resource Team Lead, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Bronze - Romeo Valeza, Apheresis Charge Nurse, Hammersmith Hospital under Imperial College Healthcare Trust

Wound Care Nurse of the Year

Winner: Tissue Viability Team NHS Lothian

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Silver - Pressure Ulcer Improvement Facilitators, East London NHS Foundation Trust

Bronze - Dawn Douglas, Community Matron, Berwick-upon-Tweed District Nursing Team

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Cardiovascular Nurse of the Year

Winner: Dr Iain Armstrong, Consultant Nurse, Sheffield Pulmonary Vascular Disease Unit, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust


Highly commended: Silver - Carys Barton, Heart Failure Nurse Consultant, Imperial College Healthcare Trust

Bronze - Dorota Wojcik, Senior Catheter Cath Lab Nurse, The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Chronic Oedema Nurse of the Year

Winner: Sylvia Marshall, Lymphoedema Nurse Specialist, NHS Dumfries & Galloway


Highly commended: Silver - Misako Dai, Professor, Ishikawa Prefectural Nursing University 

Bronze - Stacy Pugh, Clinical Nurse Manager, LymphVision

Continence Nurse of the Year

Winner: June Rogers MBE, Down Syndrome UK and Davina Richardson, Bladder & Bowel UK, The Toilet Training Team

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Highly commended: Silver - Stoma & Pouch Nursing Team, St Mark's Hospital

Bronze - Victoria Brown, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust - Bladder, bowel and pelvic health Team

Diabetes Nurse of Year

Winner: Paula Johnston, Lead Diabetes Inpatient Specialist Nurse, University Hospital Southampton

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Silver - Jane Rowney, Diabetes Nurse Consultant, Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

Bronze - Laura Gilligan, Community Diabetes Nurse Specialist, Ipswich and East Suffolk Community Diabetes Service

Gastrointestinal Nurse of the Year

Winner: Barbara Ashall, Lead Upper GI Nurse Specialist, Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals


Highly commended: Silver - East Lancashire Hospital Trust Hepatology Team: Helen Stubbs, Loretta Grant, Anita Carter, Chloe Taylor, Sharon Frayne, Christine Barnes-Clark and Roisin Howells

Bronze - Pouch Nursing Team, St Mark's Hospital

Infection Prevention Nurse of the Year

Winner: Danel Meno Garcia, Infection Prevention Control - Education Lead Nurse, Whittington Health NHS Trust


Highly commended: Silver - Deanne Burch, Hep C U Later Programme Lead, Inclusion, Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Bronze - Rashmi Anu Thannikkal, Infection Prevention and Control Clinical Nurse Specialist, King's College Hospital

Mental Health Nurse of the Year

Winner: Carly Lynch, Consultant Mental Health Nurse, London Ambulance Service


Highly commended: Silver - Gaynor Halsey, Senior In-Reach Nurse Practitioner, Wigan & Bolton Children's Eating Disorder Service/Wigan CAMHS

Bronze - Claire Hickman, Deputy Manager Specialist Nurse, Children and Young People's Community Team

Nurse of the Year

Winner: Morisenuola (Mo) Ladele, Chief Nurse Fellow (BAME), Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC)


Highly commended: Silver - Dr Iain Armstrong, Consultant Nurse, Sheffield Pulmonary Vascular Disease Unit, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Bronze - Wilfredo Vitao Jr., Practice Education and Development Facilitator, George Eliot Hospital

Nutrition Nurse of the Year

Winner: Sophie Stenson, Clinical Practice Manager, Nutricia


Highly commended: Silver - Hayley Leyland, Lead Home Parenteral Nutrition Nurse Specialist, Freeman Hospital

Bronze - Esther Munthali, Lead Practice Development Nurse, Nutrition and Dietetic Department Swansea Bay University Healthboard

Oncology Nurse of the Year

Winner: Claire Cadwallader, Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care, The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust


Highly commended: Silver - Amy Byfield, Breast Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist, Sunrise Centre, RCHT, Truro

Bronze - Jo Bird, Nurse Consultant (Melanoma & Immunotherapy Late Effects), Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust