The Link May 2026 - Book - Page 7
Award for new ways of working
Award for excellence in rehabilitation
Podiatry Transforming Vascular Services in Hywel Dda UHB
Katie Evans-Bundy, Head of Podiatry & Orthotics, Christian
Newman, Deputy Head Value-Based Healthcare and National
Clinical Lead Value-Based Healthcare and the team at Hywel
Dda University Health Board
Care closer to home: transforming liver disease
rehabilitation through home-based nasogastric feeding
and reconditioning
Amelia Rowlands, Gastroenterology Lead Dietitian and Rhian
Booth, Clinical Lead Dietitian and the team at Cardiff and
Vale University Health Board
Bridging the interdisciplinary gap to get patients on the
right pathway
Daniel Rothwell, National Research and Innovation Specialist
and Clinical Scientist, Joanne Brown, National
Lymphoedema and Cellulitis Clinical Lead and Paramedic,
and Melanie Thomas, Clinical Director and Physiotherapist,
Lymphoedema Wales Clinical Network
Transforming Outcomes through Integrated Psychiatric
Genomics in Wales
Donna Duffin, Principal Genetic Counsellor and the team at
All Wales Medical Genomics Service
Human platelet lysate
Michael Cahillane, Senior Research Scientist, Welsh Blood
Service and the collaborative research team
Sponsored by the Allied Health Professions
Federation Cymru
Award for developing the
AHP and healthcare science
professions workforce
Sponsored by Health Education and Improvement Wales
Introducing Powys to POCT:
Transforming Point of Care Testing in Powys
Melanie Prince, Point of Care Testing Co-ordinator, Powys
Teaching Health Board
From pressure to potential:
a new dysphagia workforce model
Laura Banci, Professional Lead Speech and Language
Therapist Acute & Secondary Care, Anthony Sueref,
Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist and
Julie-Anne Channing, Speech & Language Therapy Assistant,
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Delivering lean innovation for safer, faster, fairer patient care
Caroline Kirwan, Lead Consultant Genetic Counsellor and
Charlotte Jaggard, Principal Genetic Counsellor and the
team at All Wales Medical Genomics Service
Limited scope reporting Biomedical Scientist
(bowel screening) training pilot
Alan Deacon, National Pathology Programme Lead, NHS
Wales Performance and Improvement
Innovative Interprofessional Simulation and Hackathon
Learning to Develop the Future Workforce
Kirsty Thomas, Occupational Therapy Lecturer, and the
Nursing and occupational therapy team, Swansea University,
Janine Evans, Advanced Practitioner Occupational Therapist,
Swansea University Health Board
The Neuro Recovery College - The Neurostute
Emma Louise Sinnott, Speech and Language Therapist and
Linda Tremain, Physiotherapist & Development Lead for the
Neurostute Recovery College, Aneurin Bevan University
Health Board
Steps to wellbeing
Wendy Bromham-Davies, Occupational Therapist, Swansea
Bay University Health Board
Transforming end of life care through specialist
community rehabilitation physiotherapy
Nicola Perkins, Team Lead Specialist Palliative Care
Physiotherapist, Specialist Palliative Care Physiotherapy
Team, Swansea Bay University Health Board
Rising star award
Sophie Cagodan – Senior Renal Technologist (Annex 21 Trainee), Swansea Bay University Health Board
Scott Leonard – Trainee Advanced Paramedic Practitioner,
Welsh Ambulance Service University NHS Trust
Sophie Arnold – Specialist Occupational Therapist, Older
Adult Mental Health Team, Powys Teaching Health Board
Victoria Illsley – Audiologist, Aneurin Bevan University
Health Board
Holly Gibbs – Physiotherapist (Falls Prevention),
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Sophie Reynolds – Occupational Therapy Assistant,
Swansea Bay University Health Board
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