2026 Winners

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WINNER: Madeleine Lee, Lead Nutrition Nurse Specialist Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust

SILVER: Nutrition Nurse Team, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

BRONZE: Birmingham Community Nutrition Nurses - Adults, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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WINNER: Continence Team, Crann Centre, Cork

SILVER: Joana Turner, Senior Pelvic Floor Clinical Nurse Specialist / Functional Bowel Lead, The Royal London Hospital

BRONZE: Abigail Knight, Harm Free Care Lead for Tissue Viability, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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WINNER: Tiverton Endoscopy Project Team & Engagement Team, Royal Devon University Healthcare Trust 

SILVER: Emily Shuttleworth, Hepatology Clinical Nurse Specialist, Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Hospital

BRONZE: Katie Ballesteros, Hepatology Clinical Nurse Specialist, Royal London Hospital

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WINNER: Kerry Anderson and Scott Taylor, Co-Chairs of the Scottish Learning Disability Lead Nurse Group, NHS Grampian and NHS Lothian

SILVER: Esther Smith, Advance Clinical Practitioner - Learning Disability Service, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust 

BRONZE: Claire Smith, Clinical Lead, North Nursing Team, Worcestershire Learning Disability Service

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WINNER: Melville Jimmy Garber II, Practice Development Nurse,  West London NHS Trust

SILVER: Katherine Matthews, Registered Manager, Perry Manor Care Home

BRONZE: Ndukwe Walter Ugwuocha, Senior Nurse Researcher, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust 

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WINNER: Hannah Rahmani, Head of Nursing - Primary Care, Primary Care 24

SILVER: Innovation & Research Team, Institute of Health Visiting

BRONZE: Lincoln Gombedza, Practice Education Facilitator and Registered Learning Disability Nurse, North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust

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WINNER: Christine Maville, Nurse Consultant NRCTC, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne

SILVER: Joana Teles, Clinical Nurse Specialist CKD, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust  

BRONZE: Sarah Milne, Kidney Nurse Consultant, Royal Free Hospital London  

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WINNER: Hannah Doyle, Clinical Nurse Specialist, The Royal Marsden

SILVER: Kathryn Chatterton, Bladder Cancer Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust  

BRONZE: Claire Evans, Community Urology Lead Nurse Specialist, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust 

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WINNER: Abigail Knight, Harm Free Care Lead for Tissue Viability, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

SILVER: Leg Ulcer Service, BCUHB, North Wales

BRONZE: Ross Joannides, Deputy Director of Nursing, Barchester Healthcare

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WINNER: Gabrielle Parham, Senior Matron Community Nursing, Oxford Health Foundation Trust

SILVER: Erika Taparan, Catheter Lead Nurse, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust 

BRONZE: Pip Noble & Heather Simpson, Lead Maternal Medicine Midwife, / Lead Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nurse Specialist (now retired), Norfolk and Norwich Maternal Medicine Centre / Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals

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WINNER: NPT Insulin Pump Team, Swansea bay NHS (Neath Port Talbot)

SILVER: Lisa Watson, Inpatient Senior Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist, Royal Liverpool Hospital

BRONZE: Rachel Hulmes, Senior Practice Nurse, Springfield Medical Practice, Eccles

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WINNER: Claire Brown, Head of Infection Prevention and Control,  London Ambulance Service NHS Trust

SILVER: Norman Lobino Jr.,  Infection Prevention and Control Nurse Manager, St John and St Elizabeth Hospital  

BRONZE: Helen McLaren, Infection Prevention and Control Matron, Liverpool Women's Hospital

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WINNER: Dr Garry Cooper, Lymphoedema, Research and Innovation Specialist,  Swansea Bay University Health Board

SILVER: Lymph and Learn Tissue Viability and Lymphoedema Service, Cantley Health Centre, Doncaster

BRONZE: Fiona Kent, Lymphoedema Nurse Clinical Lead, West Pottergate GP Surgery, Norwich 

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WINNER: Dominic Simpson,  Assistant Professor,  Northumbria University

SILVER: Peter Sandy, Associate Professor in Mental Health Nursing, University of West London

BRONZE: Miriam Collett,  Lecturer in Children and Young People Nursing, University of Salford

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WINNER: Right by You Wessex, Wessex Cancer Alliance

SILVER: Gini Melesi,  Head of Clinical Programmes,  East of England Cancer Alliance

BRONZE: Emma Davey, Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care / HIV Oncology, The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre

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WINNER: Anna Brewer, Lead Stoma Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

SILVER: Margaret Northover, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Stoma Care, Guy’s and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust  

BRONZE: Kelly Chegwidden, Lead Stoma Care Clinical Nurse Specialist, North Middlesex Hospital  

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WINNER: Andrew Barton, Nurse Consultant, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

SILVER: Princell Regis, Vascular Access Clinical Nurse Specialist / SACT Nurse Team Leader, Mount Vernon Cancer Center (East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust)

BRONZE: Catherine Lang, Lead Vascular Access Nurse, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust 

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