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Another award for the St. Mark’s Hospital Pouch nurse…

Another award for the St. Mark’s Hospital Pouch nurse team!

We are delighted to announce that Petya Marinova – Lead Nurse Pouch and Stoma Care, was presented with the Healthcare Honours, New Talent Award, 2023. The awards ceremony was held at the Houses of Parliament on Thursday evening, 23^rd November, showcasing NHS leadership and management roles.

The New Talent award shortlisted individuals with up to 5 years of experience in a leadership or managerial position who had shown remarkable potential as a leader and made outstanding contributions to their organisation, either on their own projects or in support of colleagues and/or more senior leaders. The nominee could be in a clinical or non-clinical leadership role, which provided some stiff competition but Petya claimed the prize for us all. We are so proud of her.

The Stoma/Pouch Management Team – Zarah Perry-Woodford and Petya Marinova were also shortlisted and Highly Commended for the Improving Outcomes: Management Team Award which highlighted an NHS management team, from any specialism or area, that made active improvements with a demonstrable impact on outcomes within (or even beyond) their area of responsibility.

They were also shortlisted for the Nursing Times Workforce Summit 2023, Best Use of Workplace Technology but sadly we didn’t get gold this time!

Left to right – Zarah Perry-Woodford, Rali Marinova, Petya Marinova and Athira Kunnumpurathu

For further information about British Journal of healthcare Honours see https://www.healthcarehonours.com/

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Gold and silver for St Mark’s pioneering pouch care…

Gold and silver for St Mark’s pioneering pouch care team

Well, well, well! They’ve done it again! The much-admired pouch and stoma care nursing team at St Mark’s Hospital have won yet more accolades for their caring skills.

The source of their latest triumph was the 2023 BJN Awards run by the British Journal of Nursing. St Mark’s Consultant Nurse Zarah Perry-Woodford was named Nurse of the Year in the BJN awards – a mere six months after she was nominated as Nursing Times Nurse Manager of the Year (See the Winter 2022-2023 Roar!).

To add even greater lustre to her win, the members of Zarah’s team, lead nurse Petya Marinova and pouch/stoma nurse Rali Marinova, won silver in the BJN awards Stoma Nurse of the Year category. This follows the team’s four nominations and a “highly commended” in the Nursing Times and Association of Stoma Care Nurses awards last October.

Commented Petya: “This is a joint team silver – or runners-up medal – for the stoma and pouch nursing team. We are very proud of this achievement and hope to continue doing amazing nursing work for all our patients.

The St. Mark’s Stoma and Pouch care team

“The award is for successfully delivering uninterrupted services throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, digitalising our services and publishing a stoma patient guide handbook – “Stoma Care – A Guide for Patients” – empowering patients to self-care throughout the pandemic and beyond.”

Jason Bacon, CEO of the St Mark’s Hospital Foundation, said: “The St Mark’s Foundation, members of the hospital trust and the staff of St Mark’s send a huge message of congratulations to Zarah and the whole team of remarkable nurses. We are delighted that Zarah Perry-Woodford has been awarded “Nurse of the Year” and the St Mark’s stoma and pouchcare nursing team won the silver medal for the BJN Stoma Care Team of the Year.”

Jason Bacon – CEO of St. Mark’s Foundation

Added Petya: “We are all extremely proud of Zarah Perry-Woodford’s well-deserved achievement, as it is testament to the amazing work she has done over the last 20-plus years, and especially the last couple of years, leading the pouch and stoma care team through the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond, ensuring services are maintained in a safe and effective way, and going above and beyond in order to ensure the safety of the team, and guaranteeing that patients are well supported with uninterrupted service throughout the pandemic and beyond.”

Christopher Browne
Trustee and ROAR! editor

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

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!