Stars of Herts annual awards 2023

Congratulations to our superstar finalists and winners from our Stars of Herts Awards night. Your 2023 winners are featured below!

The Stars of Herts Awards are our chance to celebrate the ingenuity, innovation and outstanding performance of our teams and individuals who provide excellent care and support across all our services.

Thank you to everyone who attended this year’s award ceremony.

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Winners

Excellence for care

Care of the Elderly specialist Nursing Team

Care of the elderly team. Medicine.

Outstanding demonstration of compassion and kindness

Marian Parker. Team administrator for dietetics

Outstanding demonstration of quality and safety

Emergency department. Emergency medicine.

Creating a positive environment to support diversity and inclusion

Letchmore ward. Surgery.

Making a difference - Going the extra mile

Lyn O'Donnell. Senior site manager

People's Choice - Unsung heroes award

Phyl O'Garro. Undergraduate coordinator and Medical Education Centre supervisor.

Outstanding contribution to volunteering

Rosie Alexander.

Outstanding demonstration of innovation and development

Safeguarding team. Corporate nursing.

Outstanding contribution to staff engagement and collaboration

Joel Kent. Advanced theatre practitioner.

Research excellence award

Xiao Bei Zhao. Senior research nurse.

Outstanding contribution to teaching and education

Anne Holmes. Senior training grade coordinator

Outstanding contribution to staff wellbeing

Sam Whittaker. Occupational therapist.

Chairman's award: Inspirational colleague

Gam Cooray. Consultant geriatrician and clinical lead for dementia, delirium and frailty.

Chairman's award: Inspirational team

Care of the elderly team. Corporate nursing.

Partnership awards

Every year we recognise our amazing partners who continue to help us to achieve our ambitions to provide the best care for our local communities. In light of our teaching hospital status we have worked much more closely with our partners in education in 2022/23. We therefore feel that our main local partners should be recognised for their contribution and their support. What they do in supporting education helps our communities and staff realise their ambitions and creates amazing career opportunities at West Herts. Many thanks to the following partners for their amazing efforts in collaborating with us: