St. Mark’s stoma/pouch team nominated for Nursing Times awards.

The St Mark’s Hospital stoma and pouchcare team has been shortlisted in four categories for the Nursing Times Awards.

Updated 28 November 2022

The awards ceremony has now taken place. Although St. Mark’s did not bring home the awards, it was a great honour for them to be nominated and we at Red lion Group and on behalf of our members are very proud of them.

St. Mark’s Hospital Trust had a total of four nominations for the Nursing Times Awards, split over two separate events.

The first two nominations for the Nursing Times awards on 26^th October 2022 were for the book “Stoma care – A Guide for Patients” Written by Rali Marinova, Petya Marinova and Zarah Perry-Woodford, which was nominated in the Patient Self Care Category, and for the Surgical and theatre nursing category.

The other two nominations were for the Nursing Times Workforce Summit & Awards, which was held on 22^nd November. These are more management, workforce and service development-oriented awards that the Nursing Times holds annually. St. Mark’s had a nomination for Nurse Manager of the Year for Zarah Perry-Woodford, and Best use of technology for the Pouch/Stoma care department for digitalisation of services.

And in October St. Mark’s Stoma/Pouch Nurse team won second place in the Association of Stoma Nurses UK Award, for successfully maintaining services during the covid pandemic, producing patient self-care stoma handbook and digitalisation of it’s service.

For information how to contact the St. Mark’s Stoma/Pouchcare team see https://pouchsupport.org/contacting-the-pouch-team-at-st-marks-hospital/

The St Mark’s Hospital stoma and pouchcare team has been shortlisted in four categories for the Nursing Times Awards.

These are an important source of recognition as the Nursing Times, like the British Medical Journal, is one of the leading magazines in the medical and health sectors.

The awards ceremony will be held at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel on two dates.

The first two nominations are for the Nursing Times awards on 26^th October 2022 when the St Mark’s team has been nominated for its book “Stoma care – a guide for patients” in the ‘Promoting Patient Self-management’ and also in the ‘Theatre and Surgical Nursing” category.

The second two nominations are for the Nursing Times Workforce Summit & Awards, which is on 22^nd November when the team has been nominated for Best Use of Workplace Technology – Digitalisation of Stoma and Pouch Care Services and finally, Zarah Perry-Woodford has been nominated in the category Nurse Manager of the Year !

So let’s send the team our very best wishes – they certainly deserve to win!