Shortlists announced for National Portering & Healthcare Cleaning Awards

The shortlists for both The National MyPorter Awards and The National MyCleaning Awards have today been announced, featuring 3 candidates for each of the twelve award categories across the two awards events – with this year seeing the awards in greater collaboration with NHS England. With just shy of 200 entries, this years’ awards are the biggest and most competitive yet in a celebration of those within Clinical Support Services – particularly Portering and Healthcare Cleaning. Live awards ceremonies in February taking place in central London across two days will see unsung heroes within healthcare have a spotlight shone on the great work they do. The first, The National MyPorter Awards, honouring the best in Portering for all the fantastic hard work and commitment they show, and then the second will see a day of celebrating the Healthcare Cleaners, Domestic teams and Auditors – for the fantastic work they do keeping patients safe by ensuring infections are kept to a minimum. Alongside the awards dinner, the first day will start with a live conference, with talks from NHS England and various Trust’s across the country, covering subjects such as Portering Standards and lobbies for recognised Portering Training and Qualifications. These will then followed up by a dedicated discussion panel with the floor. The next day will see talks NHS England Estates & Facilities’ Director & Head of Profession – Simon Corben, alongside other discussions by NHS England and AHCP-associated guests on the National Standard of Healthcare Cleanliness and Healthcare Cleaning training. A panel will then take questions from the floor. The shortlist for the six National MyPorter Awards categories are as follows – in no particular order: Newcomer of The Year Award – shortlist: Thanujan Theivanthiran - London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust Jack Teague - Royal Surrey County Hospital Deepak Depala - Chase Farm Hospital (Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust)

Leadership of The Year Award – shortlist: Zaheer Iqbal - Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust Ryan Lindsay - Barnet Hospital (Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust) Sue Bolt – Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Outstanding Contribution to Patient Experience Award – shortlist: Cameron Quinlan - Darent Valley Hospital (Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust) Joshua Hawkins - Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Daniel Wheeler - City Hospitals Sunderland Commercial Enterprises Ltd (CHoICE) Portering Team of The Year Award – shortlist:

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Darent Valley Hospital (Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust) Jemma and Danny Roscoe - Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Dennis Southern Lifetime Achievement Award – shortlist: Paul MacKay – University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust Robbie Graham - Southport & Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust Denise Starr - Stockport NHS Foundation Trust MyPorter Porter of The Year Award – shortlist: Brendon Bielby - Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Victor Adeji - Chase Farm Hospital (Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust) Seamus McMahon - St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust The shortlist for the six National MyCleaning Awards categories are as follows – in no particular order: Newcomer of The Year Award – shortlist: Callum Lane - Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust Lisa Harry - Somerset NHS Foundation Trust Evelyn Barkley - Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Leadership of The Year Award – shortlist: Matthew Taylor - Somerset NHS Foundation Trust Carol Birch - County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust Rachael Hutchinson - City Hospitals Sunderland Commercial Enterprises Ltd (CHoICE) MyAudit Auditor of The Year Award – shortlist: Elizabeth Sanders - St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Tracy Boswell - Stockport NHS Foundation Trust Amanda Grundy - East Cheshire NHS Trust Healthcare Cleaning Team of The Year Award, sponsored by GT Cleaning Machines – shortlist:

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust Somerset Community – Somerset NHS Foundation Trust Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored by Numatic – shortlist: Susan Robason - City Hospitals Sunderland Commercial Enterprises Ltd (CHoICE) Sue Benstead - Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Doris Robinson - North Tyneside General Hospital – Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust MyCleaning Domestic of The Year Award – shortlist: John Waites - County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust Geraldine Needham - Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Micheal Mantle - Stockport NHS Foundation Trust Congratulations to all those who have been shortlisted – Good Luck at the live finals. For any questions or queries relating to The National MyPorter Awards or The National MyCleaning Awards, please contact:

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MyPorter Awards - Winners

Doctors and nurses quite rightly receive all the plaudits for the amazing work they do within hospitals up and down the country, but on February 24th a live awards ceremony took place to celebrate the unsung heroes of the NHS – the hospital porters.

Taking place in central London, the MyPorter Awards saw six awards presented to the finalists from across the country who made the judges shortlist, having been placed on it during a rigorous process which saw over 100 nominations whittled down by guest judges Emma Brookes, Head of Soft FM Strategy and Operation and Philip Shelley, Senior Operational & Policy Manager Soft FM at NHS England & Improvements.

The broad range of entries showed just why the NHS porters deserve to be honoured and praised, just like the Doctors and Nurses they work with. Nominations such as that for eventual winner of the MyPorter – Porter of The Year award: Matthew Wood at Tunbridge Wells Hospital. A kind and courageous 21-year old who, despite losing both his grandparents over the last 12 months, carried on full-time at university to complete his degree – graduating with a First, while coming home on weekends to work at his local hospital as a porter; of which he does to also to help his mum with her rent. His role throughout the pandemic has seen him constantly working for the hospital even when Covid cases were at their peak; sadly his grandparents also passed away at this time within the same hospital, showing maturity beyond his years and fully deserving of his award.

Another winner at the awards is Keith Bellfield who has worked as a Porter since 1987 and known by his NHS Trust in Sunderland as “a walking encyclopedia of Portering”. Sadly, in recent years’ Keith’s wife passed away and saw him need to take on extra caring responsibilities for their son – unable to remain a full-time porter, Keith, instead of leaving, asked for alternative work which has seen him become a Waste Porter, which he has adapted to like the true professional he is. Keith wins the Dennis Southern Award – For Endeavour, a lifetime achievement award named in the honour of Keith’s fellow North-East native, Dennis, who sadly passed away just two weeks before being nominated for last years’ awards.

John Roe is another who is a true NHS Hero; working with profound physical disabilities - delivering vital (often life-changing) equipment to children. He has the job of collecting the equipment from the families of deceased children and always ensures he takes time to spend with the parents and siblings of these children, regardless of how busy he is. He is a hardworking member of the portering team who delivers meals to poorly children in the respite centre, always greeting everyone with a smile. The Radiology Porter Team at South Tees was nominated after losing their colleague Mark Lowe who sadly passed away due to Covid – not only did the band together to support each other at such a difficult time, they also took it upon themselves to care for Mark’s wife and son. The Portering team at East and North Hertfordshire are another great asset to the NHS, who recently helped their Mortuary & Bereavement Team with a logistical nightmare when the mortuary needed essential cleaning and repairs, which resulted in the porters moving over 300 bodies, many worked unsociable hours to ensure the moves of the bodies were completed swiftly, but with care and dignity – this resulted in them winner the ‘Portering Team of The Year Award’.

There are many stories which have come in through the awards nominations which showcase the humble and loveable nature porters show to patients at a time which can be worrying for them – take Ian Butler at Milton Keynes Endoscopy Unit, known for serenading patients, others make patients smile, laugh or become a shoulder to cry on – creating special bonds with patients and their families in the process. Nigel Close, who has been a porter since 1987 and still to this day stays on when staffing levels are low and thinks nothing to taking on an urgent task, even if his shift is due to finish. Darren Davies at University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire who is the winner of the ‘Outstanding Contribution to Patient Experience Award’, came across an extremely distressed and aggressive patient who needed an emergency CT Scan – the patient even attempted to harm the nurses dealing with him. Darren, realising how important the scan was for the patient, approached him, talked him down, took him for a walk around the hospital to calm him down further and was able to get him to agree to attend his CT scan – Darren showed true compassion to ensure the patient received the care they urgently needed despite the potential dangers toward himself. Other winners included Mark Turner from CHoICE – Sunderland, who won Leadership of The Year and Kevin Smith – Addenbrookes, who won the Newcomer of The Year.

The Finalists attended a live conference during the day which saw them hear guest speakers talk to them about mental health and wellbeing, team work and portering peers who talked best practice. Guests then dined on a three-course meal before the live awards ceremony celebrated the great work done by these unsung heroes of the NHS.

Simon Corben, Director & Head of Profession at NHS Estates said at the event: “These kind of events are really important – it’s important that we recognise the Estates and Facilities profession and celebrating the great work porters do is a part of that. Porters play an intrinsic part in the whole flow of the hospital – without porters we simply cannot operate”.

Winners:

MyPorter Award - Porter of The Year Award

Matthew Wood, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

Dennis Southern - For Endeavour Award

Keith Bellfield, CHoICE, Sunderland Royal Hospital

Portering Team of The Year Award

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust Portering Team

Outstanding Contribution to Patient Experience Award

Darren Davies, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

Leadership of The Year Award

Mark Turner, CHoICE, Sunderland Royal Hospital

Newcomer of The Year Award

Kevin Smith, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Highlights from the MyPorter Awards

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MyPorter Awards - shortlist announced

The shortlist for the MyPorter Awards has been announced, featuring a list of 4 candidates for each of the six award categories, after a judging panel met on Tuesday 18th January to discuss each nomination, its merits and reasons why they should be shortlisted to win. With over 100 entries, this years’ MyPorter Awards has seen it grow vastly from its humble beginnings last year, which saw the single category of awarding the MyPorter Award 2020, which was later won by Claire Blackhall – Chargehand Porter at Wansbeck General Hospital. A live awards ceremony taking place in London, where Claire herself will be there to hand out one of the awards, will see six awards presented to their worthy winners, along with a 3-course meal, and will start the day with a live portering conference. The MyPorter Awards Portering Conference will see guest speakers talking all things portering best practice, team work and wellbeing, with talks from portering peers, mental health experts and from NHSI’s Emma Brookes, Head of Soft FM Strategy and Operation and Philip Shelley, Senior Operational & Policy Manager Soft FM, both of whom were part of the judging panel for the awards, alongside GV Healthcare’s CEO Matt Wright and GV Healthcare (and former Porter Manager at HUTH NHS Trust) Business Development Manager Mark Edwards. The shortlist for the six categories are as follows: Newcomer of The Year Award – shortlist: Kenneth Mcintyre - Royal Berkshire – nominated by Steve SellwoodKevin Smith - Cambridge University Hospitals (Addenbrookes) – nominated by Phil Butters Tracy Banford – Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust – nominated by Mark Stankovich Thomas Foulkes – University Hospital of the North Midlands – nominated by Diane Clarke

Leadership of The Year Award – shortlist: Alison Carter – Stoke Mandeville - Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust – nominated by Alex Gallo Mark Turner – CHoICE (Sunderland) – nominated by Claire Dodds Joseph Ryan – Stepping Hill Hospital - Stockport NHS Foundation Trust – nominated by Steve Whitehead Zaheer Iqbal – Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust – nominated by Mark Stankovich Outstanding Contribution to Patient Experience Award – shortlist: Ian Butler – Milton Keynes University Hospital – nominated by Hannah Burnett Trevor Knight – William Harvey Hospital – nominated by Leanne Knight Radiology Ultrasound Porters Team Addenbrookes Hospital – nominated by Jasanthy Bell Darren Davies – University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire – nominated by Sarah Haynes Portering Team of The Year Award – shortlist:

The Radiology Porter Team at The James Cook University Hospital (South Tees) – nominated by Paula Taggart Alan Shepherd & team – Royal Berkshire – nominated by Steve Sellwood Portering Team at East and North Herts NHS Trust – nominated by Nikki Lane L2 DSU Portering Team – Cambridge University Hospitals – nominated by Graham Johnston Dennis Southern Award – For Endeavour – shortlist: Ken Grant – Cambridge University Hospitals (Addenbrookes) – nominated by Lucy Jobson Nigel Close – University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire – nominated by Sarah Haynes Keith Bellfield – CHoICE (Sunderland) – nominated by Claire Dodds John Shaw – Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals NHS Trust – nominated by Terry Kelly MyPorter Award 2021 – shortlist: Naga Vejandla – East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust – nominated by Nikki Lane John Roe – Sheffield Children’s Hospital – nominated by Kate Mackintosh Leon Hill – Gloucestershire Royal Hospital – nominated by Michelle Morgan Matthew Wood – Tunbridge Wells Hospital – nominated by Alexandra Bolou Congratulations to all those who have been shortlisted – Good Luck in the MyPorter Awards live final. For any questions or queries relating to the MyPorter Awards, please contact:

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