Northumbria Primary Care – Staff Celebration Event 2023

This week, our teams came together to celebrate their hard work and quality improvement (QI) projects over the past twelve months.

To open the event, colleagues from across the organisation presented posters highlighting QI projects they had implemented over the past year. QI is an important part of what our teams do and we encourage colleagues at all levels to develop initiatives that improve patient outcomes and create a better patient experience.

We then moved into the staff celebration portion of the event, opened by Northumbria Healthcare CEO Sir Jim Mackey. NPC’s Managing Director David Hedgcock handed out honours to some of our colleagues and teams who have gone above and beyond over the last year. The shortlisting process was incredibly difficult with a huge number of fantastic nominations. Congratulations to everyone who won an award, was shortlisted and received a nomination.

See below for the full list of all the winners:

Outstanding Clinical Team – Spring Terrace Health Centre

Outstanding Non-clinical Team – Nelson Medical Group

Outstanding Team Member – Kaye Williams

The Chairman’s Award for Everyday Excellence – Charlotte Burn, presented by Northumbria Healthcare Chair Sir Paul Ennals CBE

Outstanding QI – Sandy Wakenshaw, accepted by Dr Kathleen Mackie

Outstanding Leadership – Laurie Hornby

Non-clinical Newcomer of the Year – Heather McAthey

Clinical Newcomer of the Year – Dr Adeelah Phul accepted by Dr Ruth Chalton

The Georgina Morgan ‘Making a Difference’ Award – Lisa Hutchinson

For more photos of the event, click through the gallery below.