2021 WINNERS
What makes a winner?
Theresa Maunganidze – West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust
BAME Nurse of the Year
Theresa went beyond her duty during the pandemic and raised awareness of the mental health strain felt by BAME workers as they watched friends, family, and colleagues suffer from COVID-19.
José Ariel Lañada – Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
BAME Nurse of the Year
During COVID-19, Jose led the way in teamwork to ensure staff felt supported, including delivering groceries to his Filipino colleagues at home when a number tested positive for the virus.
Angelina Ankomah – West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust
BAME Midwife of the Year
Angelina is a believer in mentorship in the NHS workforce, where she acts as a mentor to less experienced BAME staff and has a mentor herself to help her on her career journey.
Robert Goddard – Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Compassionate and Inclusive Leader – Initiative
Robert believes in allyship to achieve equality and has suggested that BAME staff should be included on recruitment panels in his trust to encourage a greater hiring cohort of diverse staff.
Kulvant Sandhu – Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Compassionate and Inclusive Leader – Role Model
Kulvant has been improving her trust’s BAME network by establishing a talent management action plan with colleagues, making the trust one of the most inclusive employers this year.
Francis Fernando – Filipino Nurses Association UK
Compassionate and Inclusive Leader – Initiative
Francis helped set up the Filipino Nurses Association UK to amplify the voices of Filipino workers, who were working on the frontline and losing family and colleagues to the virus.
Daisy Peets – West Hertfordshire Hospital NHS Trust
Compassionate and Inclusive Leader – Network
Daisy helped set up her trust’s BAME network at a time when there wasn’t much support available for BAME workers. Today, the network acts as a “listening ear” for BAME staff.
The Filipino Nurses Association UK
Community Initiative of the Year
The Association was founded to represent the interests of Filipino healthcare workers during the pandemic and has been vital in giving this community access to networking opportunities and general support.
Akin Falayajo – United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Emergency and Critical Care Healthcare Professional
Akin is reducing inequalities in-patient care by enhancing the patient experience in ambulatory medicine via his involvement in all aspects of service design to ensure safer and more effective care.
Anna Awoliyi – Kettering General Hospital
Digital Champion of the Year
Anna has improved the visiting experiences for patients and families by implementing virtual visiting technology, which provides 1:1 video calls to improve the patient experience in the long term.
Mehvish Shaffi-Ajibola – Whittington Health NHS Trust
Inspiring Diversity and Inclusion Lead of the Year – Initiative
Mehvish has a clear and visible leadership style which helped give her organisation’s BAME colleagues a voice, while her engagement with key stakeholders was instrumental in driving organisational change.
Louis Palmer – Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
Ground Breaking Researcher of the Year
With a grandparent who worked for the NHS, Louis understands the contributions BAME staff have made to healthcare. His work follows this legacy by encouraging BAME communities to participate in research.
Mohammedabbas Abbas Khaki – Royal College of General Practitioners
Mental Health Initiative of the Year
By creating a tech-based platform, Mohammedabbas and his team were able to access a large proportion of the BAME population and provide a database of alternative food choices to improve health.
Estwar Sanichar – Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Inspiring Diversity and Inclusion Lead of the Year– Role model
Estwar discovered his passion for care in the church and has become a role model for BAME leadership in UK healthcare, working with stakeholders to improve the lives of BAME colleagues.
Priyanika Jesrani – DynamicHealth Musculoskeletal and Specialist Physiotherapy (part of Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust).
Outstanding Achievement of the Year
Priyanika is improving healthcare for women from the South-Asian community, one of the most marginalised groups in her area. Sessions conducted in South-Asian languages made patients feel part of a community.
Aarthi Rajendran – Hull University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
Outstanding Corporate Achievement of the Year
Aarthi is eliminating injustices across health groups, despite only moving to the UK fifteen years ago with no knowledge of how the NHS operated, making her a true BAME healthcare role model.
Hala Kandil and Rama Vancheeswaran – West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Clinical Champion of the Year
The winners have been implementing and improving diagnostic and clinical services for their BAME patients and supporting their BAME colleagues as they work to provide the best standard of care.
Jody Bell – Oxford Brookes University
Outstanding Contribution to Social Care
Jody has used education to enlighten students and her faculty colleagues at her university about anti-racist processes, where she is committed to decolonising the course curriculum.
Akinola and Olubukola Adewunmi – Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Health and Wellbeing Advocate
Akinola and his wife Olubukola are encouraging more people from their local BAME community to give blood and are collaborating with religious and community organisations to raise awareness.
Nour Moteirek and Hafsa Atique-Ur-Rehman – Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Workforce Innovator of the Year
The winners made a concerted effort to educate their workforce about the Black Lives Matter movement, including a “check your privilege quiz” and examples of books and films to watch.