Spinal injury specialists honoured with national award
A team that keeps a specialist spinal injuries unit clean has won a national, unsung hero award.
The Midlands Centre for Spinal Injury Domestic Team at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Shropshire won the ancillary staff team of the year at the inaugural unsung hero awards - which celebrated the contributions of non-clinical NHS staff and volunteers.
Carol Pugh, Marina Owen, Barbara Dwyer, Tracey Edwards, Shirley Buckley and Jane Herbert were nominated by Kate Betts, Therapy Technical Instructor.
She said: “The spinal injury patients and their friends and families are dealing with life changing devastating injuries and the domestic team can regularly be heard laughing and joking in good humour, telling the patients off for being messy. The patients have a relationship with the housekeepers, just as they do with the nurses, doctors and therapists.
“They have the amazing skill of being visible and available to help, as well as quietly going about their duties in a caring, compassionate and professional manner.
“Compliments for the Domestic Team are never far away from patients, relatives and other members of staff – they would be well-deserving winners of an Unsung Hero Award.”
The awards ceremony was held at The Principle Hotel in Manchester.
Mark Brandreth, Chief Executive, also attend the awards ceremony. He said: “We all had an absolutely brilliant evening, and it was so special to see how proud the MCSI Domestic Team were winning an award.
“Our whole Domestic Team are amazing – as proven by the most recent Adult Inpatient Survey where our Wards were rated amongst the very cleanest in the NHS."
