Our BHRUT marketplaces, which we launched to support staff during the cost of living crisis, are up for a Nursing Times Workforce Award.

They have been shortlisted in the Best Social Responsibility Programme category. The marketplaces, run in partnership with the charity SMILE London and Essex, started out with free school uniforms and have grown to offer much more to those in need.

Our Chief Nurse Fellows programme, which invites staff from a range of teams to shadow our Chief Nurse, Kathryn Halford, helping to enhance their leadership and innovation skills, has also been recognised in the Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff category.

Winners will be announced following an awards ceremony in London on Thursday 28 November.

Our teams have also been recognised in the annual Nursing Times Awards.

Our Enhanced Supportive Care team (pictured below) has been shortlisted for the Ingrid Fuchs Cancer Nursing Award. The team, which has already won an award for going above and beyond for their patients, offers palliative care expertise to patients with incurable cancer right from diagnosis.

They are the only nurse-led service of this kind in the country and aim to help patients manage their symptoms to live as well as possible, for as long as possible.

Joint team leaders Pauline Staley and Lucie Summerfield said:

It feels amazing to be nominated, especially in cancer nursing, as it shows how embedded within our Oncology team we are.

We’ve also been shortlisted for the HRH The Prince of Wales Award for Integrated Approaches to Care after working with Barts Health to roll out Patients Know Best, which gives patients access to their health records via an online portal, to renal patients.

We used a patient’s positive experience as a case study to look at what worked well and roll it out to more patients. A crucial part of the success was clinical staff working closely with technical colleagues. Ours is the only project team which has a clinical informatics lead, and clinical lead.

Winners will be announced on Wednesday 23 October.

And our Neonatal team has been shortlisted for Outstanding team in the British Association of Perinatal Medicine (BAPM) Gopi Menon Awards.

It recognises their work to achieve full accreditation of the Unicef UK Baby Friendly Initiative in April this year. The initiative aims to ensure babies born at our hospital have the best start in life.

The winning team will be announced on Wednesday 11 September.