Publish date: 26 October 2026
Outstanding dedication, service and care at local NHS services in both Tameside and Stockport were celebrated at the CARE awards at the Midland Hotel in Manchester on Friday 23rd October.
These were the first joint staff and volunteer awards for the South East Sector Health Care Partnership between both Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust and Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, running both hospital and community services in these areas.
The name of the CARE awards reflects the trusts’ shared values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Bringing colleagues together for a shared staff awards ceremony reflects the growing collaboration between the two trusts.
They recognised the fantastic care and commitment across the hugely diverse array of staff groups and disciplines which make up local NHS services serving the people of Stockport, Tameside, Glossop, the High Peak and beyond.
The awards were nominated by both colleagues within the services.
Hosted by Greatest Hits Radio presenter Andy Crane in the grand surroundings of the Midland, they included a celebration dinner and disco for everyone shortlisted, a fun ‘Traitors’ themed game as prelude, and fundraising was held for the trust’s respective charities too.
Funding for the evening came from Tameside NHS Charity, Stockport NHS Charity, , and local sponsors. The evening’s main sponsors were In Health, Weightmans, Clinysis and Ottobock. Secondary sponsors were SF Taylor, Bates Business Productivity Services, SoftCat, Liaison Group, Medica, Canon, Copeland Group, RPG Medical, Meel Group, Ralph Livesey Ltd, Paul Bentley Wholesale, QuidelOrtho, Consort Healthcare, Ricoh, Atlas Logistics and Spark TSL.
The awards were presented by South East Sector Health Care Partnership Chair David Wakefield and Chief Executive Karen James OBE, together with representatives of the sponsors.
Karen James said: “It was fantastic to have a joint awards ceremony for both Stockport and Tameside and Glossop NHS colleagues for the first time, representing the strong and effective partnership between us. There were so many different examples of compassion and dedication on display from both individuals and teams here at the CARE awards, all of which makes us so proud to be part of our local NHS. And it was great to see everyone shortlisted enjoying themselves so much too.
"I’d like to thank Andy Crane for being a great presenter, and to Tameside NHS Charity, Stockport NHS Charity and all our sponsors for making the evening possible.”
The evening’s winners were:
Clinical Team of the Year – Stockport
Winner: Jasmine Ward
Runners up: MDT Bluebell Ward, Discharge Writing Pharmacists
Clinical Team of the Year – Tameside
Winner: Critical Care Outreach Team
Runners up: Children's Unit, Acute Oncology
Non-Clinical Team of the Year – Stockport
Winner: Women & Children's Medical Secretaries
Runners up: Finance & Procurement team, Community Admin team
Non-Clinical Team of the Year – Tameside
Winner: Systems Development
Runners up: Healthy Child Programme, Quality and Patient Experience
Collaborative Working
Winner: People and Organisational Development
Runners up: Children with Abdominal Pain Pathway (Stockport), Gynaecology Oncology (Stockport)
Volunteers
Winner: Harry Knight (Tameside)
Runners up: Heather Jones (Tameside), Breastfeeding support (Stockport), Volunteer Team (Stockport)
Inspirational Leader
Winner: Roshen Sebastian (Stockport)
Runners up: Alex Tempowski (Stockport), Anouska Borowiak(Tameside), Stephanie Lomas (Tameside)
Rising Star
Joint winners: Karina Khader (Tameside), Izzy Kieran (Stockport), Emma West (Stockport), Mia Sutton (Tameside)
Unsung Hero
Winner: Dipika Patel (Tameside)
Runners up: Dawn Bennet-Painter (Tameside), Craig Howe (Stockport)
Service Improvement
Winner: Paediatric Asthma Project (Tameside)
Runners up: Community Services waiting list (Stockport), Sally Lewcock (Tameside)
Great Patient Experience
Winner: Paediatric Continence Team (Stockport)
Runners up: Amy Graham (Tameside), Laura Lane (Tameside)
Education and Learning
Winners: Stroke multi-disciplinary team (Stockport)
Runners up: Education simulation team (Tameside), Outpatient Department (Tameside)
