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NORTHERN IRELAND
Michelle Tennyson, Minister Nesbitt
and Professor Ian Young
Celebrating AHPs and
healthcare scientists in
Northern Ireland
This year’s Advancing Healthcare Awards
ceremony was attended by over 300 guests at the
Stormont Hotel in Belfast. Our guest of honour was
the Lord Lieutenant Dame Fionnuala Jay-O’Boyle
and the guest speaker was Minister of Health, Mike
Nesbit.
Full details of the finalists and how to contact them
will be published shortly in the Winners’ Guide, but
meanwhile here are some highlights.
Paramedics celebrate success
Winning in the FAST lane
It was the Year of the Paramedics – no fewer than
five winners, a Rising Star and one finalist.
And they were there in force to celebrate.
They won the Award for Partnership Working in
Public Health for their High Intensity User Project
with the British Red Cross which is likely to save
nearly £2 million a year.
The FAST team with IPEM’s Adam Hounsell and host Ann Keen
This year’s overall winner was the FAST clinic team
at the Northern Ireland Cancer Care Centre.
The judges chose this because of the dramatic
impact it has had on service delivery. It means
patients can have advanced image guided
radiotherapy techniques through prostate cancer
clinical trials, reducing radiotherapy from 39
treatments to five, saving 134 hours of radiotherapy
and enabling more patients to be treated faster.
As Adam Hounsell, from the Institute of Physics and
Engineering in Medicine who sponsored the Award,
put it: ‘Looking for impact? This innovative clinic
has it. It shows collaboration at its most powerful
to completely transform the patient experience
and enabling far more patients to be treated much
faster.’
And they had the cleverest mnemonic of the year:
ADVOCATE - ADVancing radiOtherapy teChniques as
A TEam for Prostate Patients.
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Paul Corns, NIAS, won the Award for Creative and
Innovation with their reimagined master class to
increase confidence in CPR performance to save
more lives.
Jamie Scott, Primary Care Paramedic, GP Federation
of NI and Lecturer of Paramedic Science, Ulster
University won the Award for those working outside
the NHS for his work in expanding patients access to
care
Reservist of the Year, sponsored by 38 Irish Brigade,
was won by Cpl Scott Mawhinney, NIAS paramedic –
see opposite for more details.
Paramedic Undergraduate of the Year, sponsored by
Ulster University, was won by Courtney McCaughley
Rising star Emma McCorkell is NIAS’s first research
paramedic.
Finalist in the service improvement category,
sponsored by the Clinical Education Centre, is Karl
Bloomer, consultant paramedic, for the integrated
clinical hub which directs 999 callers to the most
appropriate care.
