NHS employees nominated

A number of employees working at NHS Tayside in Perth have been nominated for a prestigious award.

The health board announced the finalists for the 2018 STAR awards last week, after a whopping 700 nominations flooded in from colleagues and patients.

Four individuals from the Fair City will be vying for the outstanding individual (clinical) prize, including Mhairi Hepburn, a consultant psychiatrist at Murray Royal Hospital; Tara Winterton, a speech and language therapist at Perth Royal Infirmary, and two PRI senior charge nurses, Pam Lamond (MoveAhead) and Rachel Hunt (ward three).

Likewise, Shannen Stewart, an administrative assistant at PRI, will be looking to win the outstanding individual (non-clinical) award.

Both the teams at PRI’s ward six and ward eight are named as finalists in the outstanding team category. Dr Donald MacGregor, a consultant paediatric surgeon at PRI, has been nominated for inspiring educator in the STAR awards.

The Letham Steering Group is nominated for innovation in practice, and the Perth City district nursing team is shortlisted for the quality and service improvement award.

Professor John Connell, who stepped down as chairman of NHS Tayside on April 6, said last week: “We were overwhelmed by the number of nominations received and I would like to thank everyone who took the time to nominate, as well as the shortlisting and judging panels, who had the very unenviable task of narrowing down the nominations.”

The ceremony will take place in the Apex Hotel in Dundee on April 19.