Chairman's Award for Leadership

This award is for an inspirational individual who has shown exceptional leadership qualities which have enabled his/her team or department to improve their service and enable the Trust to provide better patient care.

This is award is sponsored by Jane and Martin Bovey.

Winner - Annette Mason, ward sister, infectious diseases unit

Annette implemented initiatives and led her ward with exceptional results. She has trained and upskilled ward nurses to carry out activities previously performed by cystic fibrosis specialist nurses. Exceptionally low levels of agency usage by flexible and innovative approaches to ensure safe staffing. All staff are encouraged to be involved in monitoring quality and to consider cost and financial implications when delivering care. Annette covers for the matrons one day a week and helps ensure that IDU is a productive, calm and well run ward. She has introduced a nurse in charge round during every shift with the advantages of a more proactive handover and this gives patients regular contact with a senior nurse. Her ward has very low agency usage.

Runner-up - Marion Bettey, inflammatory bowel disease specialist nurse

During an 18 month period, Marion was flexible enough to transfer her leadership and management skills to three separate departments during a secondment. In managed care she organised the booking system to enable increased patient throughput to the treatment bay of the department and successfully led the implementation of nurse facilitated discharge. She took on supporting the respiratory centre at very short notice when the core team was hit by illness. Her next role in endoscopy she successfully supported and led the staff to ensure that they clearly understood their individual responsibility in fulfilling Trust objectives and expectations.  

Also nominated

• Lorraine Clapham, consultant physiotherapist and neuro therapy manager, therapy department
• Jo Horne, advanced practitioner histopathology, department of cellular pathology