Shortlist announcement: 2025 UHN Excellence Awards sponsored by SmartCo Future Health

We are delighted to share the shortlisted nominees for the 2025 UHN Excellence Awards sponsored by SmartCo Future Health!

It's a huge achievement for our colleagues and teams to have been nominated and then shortlisted as a finalist. It is also a reflection of their care and commitment to their work at UHN that someone has taken the time to nominate your team for this award. This year we received over 450 nominations across all award categories, so being shortlisted is something we hope you our 50 shortlisted nominees will be proud of.

Those shortlisted have been invited to the awards evening on Wednesday 26 November 2025 at the Mercure Hotel, Northampton. 

If you have not received an invitation and think you should have done, please email  ngh-tr.communications@nhs.net 

We will soon be sharing out the nominations in full to everyone shortlisted and nominated. For the first time, to help to celebrate as many colleagues as possible we will also be inviting some of those colleagues who were nominated to attend the awards as guests. Keep an eye on our internal communications for more details soon.

Please note we do not share details of who made the nomination.

UHN Compassionate Colleague Award 2025

• Asmaa Abdul Hameed 

• Emma Murray

• Samantha Musgrove

• Sharron Matthews

• Victoria Oxby

UHN Shining Star (Non-Clinical individual) Award 2025 sponsored by Mercure Northampton

• Andre Gore

• Craig Kidd

• Farhana Ahemadabadi- Patel

• Mia Tysoe

• Rowan Clark

UHN Star Volunteer of the Year 2025

• Denise Jackson

• Gail Gee

• Joyce Crowther

• Michael Leonard

• Sandra Geppert

UHN Non-Clinical Stars Team Award 2025 sponsored by Smart Co Future Health

• Adult Bereavement Team NGH

• Electronic Patient Record team NGH

• Pharmacy's Dispensary Team NGH

• Resuscitation and Simulation Team NGH

• UHN Volunteer Services Team.  

UHN Clinical Stars Team Award 2025

• Elderly Care Therapy Team NGH

• Pneumonia Team KGH

• Maternity Immunisation Team KGH

• Paediatric Oncology team NGH

• Recovery Team - Day Surgery Unit-Area K NGH

UHN Shining Star (Clinical individual) Award 2025

• Elizabeth Lomax-Enfield

• Katy McCrossan

• Mary Buist

• Mr Chandran Tanabalan

• Tina Taylor and Michelle Nichol

Northamptonshire Health Charity Fundraiser of the Year Award 2025

• Bayleigh Layram-Smith

• Bereavement Midwives team at NGH - Daisy Fundraising Ball

• Jackie Callow

• Ken Westall

• Melissa Gurr

UHN Research, Innovation, and Improvement Award 2025 sponsored by Multiverse

• Hasan Alsararatee

• ICU Research Team KGH

• QI Mouth Care Improvement Project KGH

• Mandy Guerin and Glenn Lennie

• Tobi Meshioye

UHN Patient Choice Award 2025 (One winner from NGH and one winner from KGH)

NGH:

• Bereavement Midwives and Support Workers team, NGH

• Critical Care Unit, NGH

• Chevaun Mandizha, NGH

• Rachael Moss, Jane Reader, Madison Purr and Rachel Surl

• Radiotherapy Team in the TR1 Department

KGH:

• Dr Ayman Ramadan

• Dr Tishelle Boodoo

• Kathleen Phelan

• Lucy Baseley

• Raji Rajan Joseph