
Awards
We are proud of local, regional and national awards won. Here's some of our recent awards and successes.

Awards
2024 Awards
0-19 Public Health Integrated Nursing Service Win Team of the Year at the Unite-CPHVA 2024 Excellence Awards
The 0-19 Public Health Integrated Nursing Service won Team of the Year at the Unite-CPHVA Annual Professional Conference for their work and support whilst offering holistic learning opportunity for undergraduate nursing students accessing their clinical environment as a placement.
Patient Experience Network National Awards
The Home First project led by Team Leeds (Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and Leeds City Council) were shortlisted for the PENNA Awards. The project involves work reducing the length of stay in an acute hospital and impr.
Helen Heer and Rebecca Kelly Awarded NIHR/HEE Internship
Helen Heer, Speech and Language Therapist and Rebecca Kelly, Specialist Physiotherapist in the LCH Community Neurological Rehabilitation Team have been awarded an internship as part of the Integrated Clinical Academic (ICA) Programme. The ICA programme is funded by Health Education England (HEE) and run by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
Victoria Carruthers Awarded Pre-Doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship
Victoria Carruthers, Specialist Occupational Therapist in the LCH Community Neurological Discharge Team was awarded the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)-funded Pre-doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship.
Paul Brown and Krystal Tang Awarded Masters in Research (NIHR INSIGHTS Programme)
LCH Musculoskeletal Service’s Physiotherapists, Paul Brown and Krystal Tang have been awarded Masters in Research as part of Health and Care Research (NIHR)’s INSIGHTS Programme.
Anna Crowle Awarded NIHR Clinician Researcher Credentials Framework Funding
Anna Crowle, Physiotherapist in the LCH Integrated Children’s Additional Needs Service (ICAN) Service has been awarded Health and Care Research (NIHR) Clinician Researcher Credentials Framework funding for an MSc in Health and Clinical Research Delivery.
Nursing Times Awards 2024
‘Love to Learn’ was shortlisted in the Technology and Data category at this year’s Nursing Times Awards. Love to Learn aims to bring every aspect of learning and development into one place for all staff in the Trust can use.
NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board and West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board were shortlisted in two categories for ‘Creating and sustaining nurse/carer partnerships’: the HRH The Prince of Wales Award for Integrated Approaches to Care and the Nursing in the Community Award. This citywide work in Leeds was facilitated in Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust by Hayley Ingleson, Senior Practice Learning Facilitator, Emma Jackson, Patient Engagement, Experience and Participation Officer and John Walsh, Organisational Development Lead and Freedom To Speak Up Guardian.
The ‘Collaboration safety improvements between A&E and police custody detainees’ was shortlisted in the Dame Elizabeth Anionwu Award for Inclusivity in Nursing and Midwifery category at the Nursing Times Awards 2024. New pathways, paperwork, improved standards, and training improved and allowed for a more effective and quicker discharge process.
Craig Russo Receives Medallist of the Order of the British Empire
Craig Russo, Clinical Operational Manager for Humberside Police Custody at Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust received the Medallist of the Order of the British Empire for services to Mental Health Nursing in the 2024 King’s Birthday Honours.
Ruth Burnett Awarded Senior Fellowship of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management
Ruth Burnett, Executive Medical Director was awarded the Senior Fellowship of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management at the FMLM Conference. FMLM Fellows include a broad range of clinical leaders who have been recognised for their leadership experience, skills, and contribution to healthcare.
Craig Russo Highly Commended in the UK Parliament Week
Craig Russo, Operational Lead for Humberside Police Custody received a Highly Commended Champion of the Year Award in the UK Parliament Week Awards. The award is in recognition of his voluntary work and the work for Leeds Community Healthcare in Police Custody Humberside in patient safety improvement and leading new pathways.
ICAN Improvement Project Shortlisted for National SEND Award
The Integrated Children’s Additional Needs Service (ICAN) was shortlisted as a finalist for the Health Innovation Award at the National SEND Awards for their innovation project. It involves making reasonable adjustments in bloods clinics for children and young people with additional needs to create a bespoke and individually tailored experience.
2023 Awards
Noor Wins International Community Nurse of the Year
Noor Ul Haq, Registered Nurse and Pastoral Support Lead was awarded the International Community Nurse of the Year at the Queen’s Nursing Institute Ceremony.
HR Excellence Awards 2023
LCH won ‘Best Recruitment and Workforce Planning Strategy’ at The 2023 HR Excellence Awards.
Nursing Times Awards
Hayley Ingleson (LCH and Leeds Primary Care Practice Learning Facilitator- Nursing) was up for educator of the year at the Nursing Times Awards 2023.
Royal College of Podiatry Academic Award
Dr Jill Halstead-Rastrick Podiatrist, Clinical Head of Service for Podiatry & Clinical lead for research at LCH was presented at an event held at the House of Lords by the Royal college of Podiatry for an Academic award.
Finance Team of the Year Award
The LCH Finance Team name Finance Team of the Year at the Healthcare Financial Management Association Awards.
William Rathbone X Annual Award
Steph Lawrence MBE, Executive Director of Nursing and Allied Health Professionals was highly commended in the inaugural William Rathbone X Annual Award.
Christine Comer Highly Commended for the Research Allied Health Professional of the Year award
Christine Comer, Head of Musculoskeletal Service was recognised as Highly commended at the Yorkshire and Humber Clinical Research Network Research Awards in the Research Allied Health Professional of the Year category.
NHS Pastoral Care Quality Award
The Trust was awarded the NHS Pastoral Care Quality Award to recognise our work in international recruitment and our commitment to providing high-quality pastoral care to internationally educated nurses and midwives during recruitment processes and their employment.
Tissue Viability Shortlisted for Journal of Wound Care Award
The Tissue Viability Service were shortlisted for a Journal of Wound Care (JWC) award, Antimicrobial Stewardship for the Leeds Community Healthcare Wound Infection Framework.
2022 Awards
Rachael Pegler Receives Award for the Philip Goodeve-Docker Memorial Prize.
Rachael Pegler, Newly Qualified District Nurse from Seacroft Neighbourhood Team was recently awarded the Philip Goodeve-Docker Memorial Prize. This was awarded by the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) following a nomination by Leeds Beckett University.
Leeds Long COVID Community Rehabilitation Service Shortlisted for Medipex Award
The Long COVID holistic virtual rehabilitation programme was selected as a finalist at the Medipex Awards for the Improved treatments, therapies, and rehabilitation award.
Maxine Emmonds Won the Cavell Star Award
Maxine Emmonds, Integrated Children’s Additional Needs Service (ICAN) – South hub healthcare support worker received the Cavell Star Award for going above and beyond for patients.
LCH Staff Wellbeing Facebook Group Shortlisted for HSJ Award
The LCH Your Health and Wellbeing – Caring for Each Other Facebook group were shortlisted for the Staff Wellbeing Award, recognising outstanding contribution to healthcare.
2021 Awards
Special Award won at the Leeds City Council Awards
Teams from Leeds City Council and our Infection Prevention Team won the Leeds City Council Special Award. They won the award for their work on the Covid outbreak. They worked to limit the spread of the virus and provided help to many services.
Teams shortlisted at Leeds City Council Awards
The Infection Prevention Team were shortlisted for the Partner of the Year Award.
The Homeless and Health Inclusion Team were also shortlisted for the award for their work to help rough sleepers during the pandemic.
Team of the Year at the Nursing Times Awards
The team of staff from five partners was awarded Team of the Year for their work to improve access to end of life care for homeless people in Leeds.
Marcel wins the Finance Student of the Year Award
Marcel joined us in October 2020. During this time, he has become an important part of the team and has made a great impact on the services provided.
Rachel Tarrant and Jenny Davison Win Award
Rachel Tarrant and Jenny Davison, the joint leaders of the Leeds Long Covid Service, won a Collaboration Award.
Leeds Long Covid Service wins Leadership Team of the Year Award
The Leeds Long Covid Service won a Clinical Leadership Team award.
Nina Davies wins Diamond Award
Nina Davies was awarded a Diamond Award at the House of Lords. Some of Nina’s input into the field of podiatry includes research and work as a lecturer.
The Leeds Long Covid Service wins Innovation Award
The Leeds Long Covid Service were joint winners at the Innovation Awards 2021.
Leeds Virtual Ward shortlisted in Patient Safety Award
Our Leeds Virtual Frailty Ward was shortlisted at the Patient Safety Awards 2021.
The service provides quick and effective care to people with an urgent medical need who can be safely cared for in their own home.
Kulvant Wins the Inclusive Leader Award
Kulvant Sandhu won the Inclusive Leader award for the difference made to Race Equality Network recruitment, selection, and staff development.
Organisation of the Year
Our Freedom to Speak Up Team were praised for their work.
Work by the team continued to develop during the pandemic. This included eleven new champions to support colleagues. Support has also been offered to staff who have been shielding.
Shortlisted for Carers Award
We were shortlisted for the work that we do with Carers Leeds.
2020 Awards
Ranked at Number 21 on The Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers List
This is our second year ranking in the top 25.
Beverley Calvert Won the You’re Simply Marvellous Award
The award highlights the value professionals bring to the treatment of heart failure. Beverly was nominated by a local patient and was one of only five chosen.
Our Infection Prevention Team won an Outstanding Achievement Award
The award was given on behalf of all partners across the city for the work the team did in Leeds during the pandemic.
Commitment to Carers
We were awarded a certificate for our commitment to carers during 2020.
Award wins at Advancing Healthcare Awards
Gemma Hawtin was praised as the Overall Winner at a ceremony held in London.
Gemma and her colleague Michelle Lyons also picked up the award for Outstanding Achievement in praise of their Wheelchair Skills Programme.
Chat Health won the Nursing in Mental Health Award
Our 0-19 team offer Chat Health which means young people can text a nurse for private health support and advice.
LCH Library Services Receive Praise
Helen Swales won the Head of Library and Knowledge Services North Award. The whole library team also won a bronze Library Superstar Award at the same event for the trust book club.
Nurses receive Queen’s Nurse Title
Liz Grogan and Jo Reynard were given the Queen’s Nurse title by the Queen’s Nursing Institute.