Your Nominations
Nominee | Nominator | Reason
Anne is a nurse at Frimley Park hospital. She is a post operative care nurse now looking after Covid-19 patients.
Sophie is a medical student at Manchester medical school. She is home now in Hampshire and working at the local care home in Hindhead, Surrey.
Kathryn Mary is a dedicated NHS frontline worker. She is currently an advanced practitioner at the North East Ambulance Service and prior to that she worked in the A & E department at the University Hospital of North Durham and also as an advanced practitioner at a local doctor’s surgery.
She is married and has two children. Kathryn is at the forefront in the care and transportation of very sick people to their local hospitals. She is calm in the face of adversity, she is very caring and patients put their trust in her to help them. Kathryn is truly dedicated and always works over and above her normal hours to help patients and colleagues alike. After finishing her shifts in A & E she would go up to the wards to make sure the patients she had looked after in A & E were ok. At the present time she is first to the patients home to tend to them and assess their situation, and although she has said, herself and colleagues do not have enough of the vital safety equipment, this does not stop them dealing with patients who have Covid 19. Staying with them in the home, until they can be safely transported to hospital.
Kathryn’s present job means that she does not know what she is going to be faced with at each call, this can be violent people, life or death situations, treating a child just like her own at home which really hits home, an elderly person just like her own mother. Kathryn’s motto is treat people as if they are your own family showing compassion, bravery and dignity to the patient.
Even though she is tired both physically and emotionally after every shift, she does not let her children see this and she ensures once she is at home, she is Mum. Before the social distancing, she would take her son every weekend to swimming galas around the north east and also take her daughter to dance and drama lessons as well as helping out at the dance group.
Kathryn has a good sense of humour and this helps her survive in this tough profession. She really is an asset and a gem in the NHS and I would love her to gain the recognition she deserves for putting her on life at risk each and every day
Alan has continued his role as caretaker of a block of flats which houses the elderly. He has worked all weekends and days to ensure that the flats remain clean, tidy and in use. He has completed all this without questioning and as part of doing so has had to isolate himself from his family.