West Lothian’s healthcare heroes have been awarded for his or her laborious work and dedication.
The native staff have been honoured on the annual Celebrating Success Awards 2022, after being nominated by workers, sufferers and households.
Selecting up the Group of the 12 months award had been workers from Ward 1, Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit (IPCU), Multidisciplinary Group at St John’s Hospital.
The workforce gained the award for a lot of causes together with their distinctive affected person care, welcoming workforce tradition and proactive strategy.
Dr David Carmichael, scientific psychologist for IPCU mentioned: “It’s a beautiful increase for the workforce to win this award because the work we do may be fairly difficult. Regardless of the pandemic, we did various work to enhance our service during the last two and a half years and it’s superb for that to be recognised.”
Louise Mowatt, scientific director for psychiatry, St John’s Hospital gained the Management Excellence Award.
During the last 18 months Louise has considerably improved the expertise of Junior Docs coaching inside West Lothian Psychological Well being Providers. Her management has been described as exemplary, constructing an atmosphere the place trainees are heard, valued and empowered to make adjustments.
Louise mentioned: “It’s very nice to be recognised for all of the laborious work that you simply put in, and I can’t thank my nominator sufficient. It meant a lot simply to be shortlisted however to win is unbelievable. I’m actually proud.”
Frances Aitken, lead dementia nurse for stress and misery at St John’s Hospital, made it a hat-trick of awards for West Lothian by selecting up the Lynn Jackson ‘Nurse of the 12 months’ Award. The award is in reminiscence of Lynn Jackson, former chief nurse for Edinburgh Most cancers Centre.
Frances gained the award for considerably altering the supply of take care of sufferers presenting with stress and misery, enhancing the affected person expertise and enhancing workers wellbeing.
Frances mentioned: “It feels completely superb. I’m fully overwhelmed. I’m simply completely delighted.”
The awards are sponsored by NHS Lothian Charity and this yr, workers had been excited to have the ability to decide up their awards in individual at a particular ceremony in Edinburgh. Final yr the awards had been held just about because of Covid-19.
Calum Campbell, chief government, NHS Lothian, mentioned: “It's incredible seeing workers with the ability to come collectively once more and have fun in individual.
“Although we nonetheless face important pressures throughout NHS Lothian, I proceed to take satisfaction within the work that our workers do 12 months a yr. I need to prolong my heat congratulations to all of this yr’s finalists for his or her achievements.”
Professor John Connaghan CBE, chair of NHS Lothian Board added: “The resilience and dedication of workers over the course of final yr and because the begin of the pandemic has been exceptional. They've supplied top quality care beneath the best stress.
“It's testomony to the dedication of our workers that they constantly innovate within the supply of care to our sufferers.”
“I’d prefer to say nicely accomplished to all of our finalists as we have fun success.”
For the complete checklist of award winners, together with a brief movie of The Group of the 12 months go to the NHS Lothian Celebrating Success Winners web page.
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