Skye’s Helen receives Queen’s Nurse Award

Members Highland Council’s Health, Social Care and Wellbeing Committee have congratulated the lead nurse for

Care Experienced Children and Young People, Helen Gilpin, right, who was presented with the Queen’s Nurse Award.

Ms Gilpin spent nine months working towards the prestigious accolade.

Based on Skye, she is an experienced specialist nurse and active member of her local community. Her award project focused on the health needs of care experienced children and young people culminating in the presentation in November.

The award is presented to of very few nurses each year and is given in recognition of outstanding qualities, skills, learning and endeavour. The Queen’s Nursing Institute is the most prestigious nursing institute in the UK and was established by Queen Victoria in the late 1800s. Chairperson of the local authority’s Health, Social Care and Wellbeing Committee Councillor Linda Munro said: ‘On behalf of the committee, we offer Helen our sincere congratulations. Such an achievement is testament to Helen’s unwavering commitment to her work along with the care-experienced children and young people living here in Highland.’