AHA Link-2024-2 July-August - Flipbook - Page 2
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As we approach our 2025 ceremony, we would like to say
a special thank you to our sponsors.
If you would like to take a table at the Awards ceremony, or just a few places to support
your colleagues and fellow professionals, contact; ellie@chamberdunn.co.uk.
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In some years it has been hard to attract entries
from the creative therapies, but they are
definitely making a good showing this time.
• Entries from healthcare scientists are
particularly strong this time with them,
unusually, making up most of this year’s Rising
Stars. We have a healthcare scientist associate
specialising in ophthalmic imaging, Biomedical
Science Day in the campaigning award, and two
finalists in the workforce development category
as well as some outstanding finalists in the
healthcare science categories.
• We have no award specifically labelled public
health but many finalists are banging the
public health drum. For the Welsh government
award, finalists include weight management
for children and young people, safety at home,
and a living well initiative. In the support
worker award, we have a support worker in the
Northern Ireland dysphagia project. In other
categories we have mental health in rough
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sleepers, pre-birth communication, pre-school
vision screening and cancer prehabilitation
and rehabilitation. This fits so well with recent
AHP initiatives to boost public health in all four
countries.
• Finally, a distinct characteristic of this year’s
Awards is the range of partnerships with
NHS organisations working with charities,
universities, voluntary services and the
commercial world. Our best collaboration
across clinical, academia and industry award,
supported by the Health Innovation Network
is specifically designed to recognise such
partnerships. Many other finalists, however,
also proudly display their partnership working.
The Scottish entry on pre-birth communication,
for example, brings together the University of
Dundee, NHS Tayside, Dundee Contemporary
Arts, Dundee City Council.
Introducing our host
Bridgitte Tetteh will host this year’s Advancing
Healthcare Awards on 23 May at the Royal Garden
Hotel, London. She is a BBC Radio Berkshire and
BBC Radio Oxford afternoon show presenter, and a
BBC Radio 4 documentary maker and presenter.
Bridgitte brilliantly hosted the staff recognition
awards for Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
which Chamberlain Dunn organised last September.
Her mother worked as a midwife and Bridgitte’s
broadcasting career started in hospital radio as a
child.
