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Advancing Healthcare Awards UK 2025:
our finalists
1) The NHS England Chief Scientific
Officer’s award for the Outstanding
Healthcare Science Service of the year
Presented by Professor Dame Sue Hill DBE,
chief scientific officer, NHS England
The point of care testing service
Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services, Frimley Health
NHS Foundation Trust, Ashford & St Peter’s NHS
Foundation Trust, Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust,
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and Surrey and
Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
The MRI physics team
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Aintree Sleep Service
NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group
Doing Things Differently: using a neuro-affirming
approach to see beyond the label
Sarah McElholm, specialist speech and language
therapist and service lead, Charlene McLaughlin,
psychologist, Clare Wilson, specialist speech and
language therapist, and Siobhan Martin, specialist
occupational therapist Children & Young People’s Autism
Early Intervention Service, Western Health and Social
Care Trust
Missingness Project, podiatry team
Davina Hughes, podiatry professional lead, South Eastern
Health and Social Care Trust
4) The Lightbulb Moment:
driving forward patient safety
Sponsored by the Academy for Healthcare Science
Presented by AHCS chair, John Stevens
2) Award for campaigning
with power and impact
Supported by PH Affairs
Presented by Paul Wright, CEO, PH Affairs
#InvestInSLT campaign
Peter Just, head of external affairs and influencing, Royal
College of Speech and Language Therapists
Biomedical Science Day: a national campaign celebrating
healthcare science and empowering public engagement
Dan Nimmo, head of communications, and the
communications team at the Institute of Biomedical
Science
See4School – NHS Scotland pre-school vision screening
Lee Pentland, orthoptist, NHS Tayside
Point of care testing team (POCT) delivering patientcentred rapid diagnostic solutions
Gareth John, point of care testing manager, and
Angelina Jean-Francois, director of operations,
North West London Pathology
A non-invasive approach to paediatric facial prosthetics:
innovation in patient-centred care
Taran Malhotra, lead clinical scientist in reconstructive
science & specialist maxillofacial prosthetist,
Liverpool Head and Neck Centre, NHS University Hospitals
of Liverpool Group
Medical device safety
Nana Odom, head of clinical engineering,
Cleveland Clinic, London
5) Rising Stars
3) Northern Ireland Government’s
award for clinical impact to
address healthcare inequalities
Presented by Professor Michelle Tennyson, chief AHP
officer, Department of Health, Northern Ireland
Addressing skin tone inequities in management during
radiotherapy - reforming education and practice in
therapeutic radiography
Naman Julka-Anderson, research therapeutic
radiographer and AHP clinical advisor, The Royal Marsden
and Macmillan Cancer Support
Presented by Steve Jamieson, CEO, Royal College of
Speech and Language Therapists
Amit Nautiyal
Clinical scientist, University Hospital Southampton
NHS Foundation Trust
Jane Blackbourn
Echocardiographer, Royal United Hospital
NHS Foundation Trust, Bath
Michela Clarke
Senior occupational therapist, Hertfordshire Partnership
University NHS Foundation Trust
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