Trust celebrates excellence with Quality Awards
Coventry’s Sexual Health Team are one of the ‘winners’ celebrating excellence in key local health services with Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust, by receiving a Quality Award.
Staff and volunteers, individuals and teams, were nominated and judged by users of local services, carers and other staff, including: members of our assembly group and governors. Individuals and teams were recognised for their excellent work, under various categories relating to the Trust’s values: Working Together, Compassion in Action, Respect for Everyone, and Seeking Excellence.
For a nominee to qualify for a Q Award, the nominator has to satisfy the judging panel that they have met the following Quality Standards:
• Provided high quality services during the past 12 months
• Shown excellence in delivering the Trust’s vision and values
• Achieved above and beyond the ‘way we usually do things’
• Has achieved exceptional benefits for people’s experience of our services.
Jagtar Singh, Trust Chairman, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust, said: “Our Quality Awards are one of the main ways we celebrate achievements in the Trust each year.
“We received more than 230 nominations for this year’s awards and selecting the winners was a very difficult task for the panel of judges. So, I want to add my hearty congratulations to all those who were nominated, shortlisted, as well as all of the winners.”
Presentations were made to the winners at an annual Q Awards event in Coventry, where each team or individual received a trophy, a framed certificate and a letter of appreciation from the Trust Board Chair.
The winners include:
The Trust’s Sexual Health Outreach Team, who run outreach clinics across Coventry to promote and boost take up of this important service.
Ellie Brown, an activity worker and Deborah Sumal, day treatment service manager were also winners, both based at the Caludon Centre in Coventry.
The city’s Community Dental Team were also winners, along with Marie Nicholls, the Trust’s lead for preventing suicide among patients, many of whom have a mental illness.
The Chair’s Award went to the HIV lead nurse, Alison Blair, who works with people diagnosed with HIV in the city, and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services nurse Hanna Pyburn received the Chief Executive Award.