CARE Awards 2026

This year, we launched our new CARE Awards, a joint annual celebration recognising the achievements of colleagues across both Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.

Our inaugural winners were announced on Friday 23 October at the prestigious Midland Hotel in central Manchester.  

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)

Volunteer of the Year

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), Diane Tully (Stockport), Craig Howe (Stockport)

Service Improvement

Winner: Paediatric Asthma Project (Tameside)

Runners up: Community Services waiting list (Stockport), Sally Lewcocck (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)

Explore the previous winners of Tameside & Glossop's Everyone Matters Awards:

Winners in bold. Highly commended starred*.

Great Patient Experience Award

  • Patient safety team
  • Fatima Salik
  • Jo Britner

Everyone Matters Compassion and Care Award

  • James Westmerland
  • Gemma Cope
  • Mel Dadkhah-Taeidy
  • Nicola Hopkins
  • Stephanie Carney

Clinical Team of the Year

  • Urgent crisis response team

  • Cancer specialist nurse team*

  • Health visiting team

Support Team of the Year

  • Medical records
  • Cared for children's admin team
  • Portering and drivers
  • ICT services

Service Improvement Award

  • Pelvic health service
  • Rainbow clinic
  • Critical care research team
  • Children's occupational therapy

Volunteers' Award

  • Tameside and Glossop NHS Charity brass band
  • Mary Quayson
  • Mike Ramsden
  • Caitlin Atherton

Leading and Inspiring Others Award

  • Caroline Calderwood
  • Rachel Alexander-Patton
  • Michelle Cunningham
  • Jayne Cross
  • Christina Rapuano

Our Heroes Award

  • Mary Hughes
  • Andy Kenyon-Betts
  • Al-Tahoor Butt
  • Janet Williams
  • Leen Selfo
  • Amy Gould

Education and Learning Award

  • Emily Havelock
  • Tissue viability service
  • ITS development team

Partnership and Collaborative Working Award

  • Community diagnostic centre programme
  • Children's speech and language therapy and health visiting
  • School nursing team

Sustainability and Efficiency Award

  • Materials management team
  • Estates team
  • Laura Swann*

Winners in bold

 

Volunteer of the Year

  • Ken Buckley
  • Ingrid Titchem
  • Diane Carter & Pearl the Dog
  • Bill Walker

 

Service Improvement of the Year

  • Community Deteriorating Patient Steering Group
  • Maternity Tobacco Advisory Team
  • Adult Speech and Language Therapy Team

 

Leading and Inspiring Others

  • Sharon Bradshaw
  • Julie Horrocks
  • Sherrilee Jones
  • Nicholas Scattergood

 

Partnership and Collaborative Working

  • Community District Nurses and Adult Social Care
  • Internship Programme
  • Tameside Macmillan Information and Support Team

 

Everyone Matters Care and Compassion

  • PALS and Complaints Team
  • Tracy Fawcett
  • Courtney Churm
  • Claire Harvey
  • Lauren Procter

 

Education and Learning

  • Specialist Palliative Care Team
  • Fabiane Norris
  • Sepsis Simulations Team

 

Our Heroes

  • Dr Thomas Lee
  • Adam Hussain
  • Nicola Schofield
  • Samir Parmar
  • Paul Gill
  • Mike Ramsden

 

Support Team of the Year

  • Catering and Retail Team
  • Payroll Team

 

Clinical Team of the Year

  • Same Day Emergency Care
  • Day Surgery
  • Stroke Service, comprising of Ward 45, The Community Neuro Rehab Team and the Stroke Rehab Unit Therapy Teams

 

Great Patient Experience

  • Advanced Cancer Nurses
  • Respiratory Physiotherapy
  • Mina Warden

 

Sustainability and Efficiency

  • Critical Care
  • Chris Huckaby and Jason Newton

The Volunteers’ Award

Winner:

  • Pat and the volunteers from the League of Friends café

Highly commended:

  • Nick Lees

Education and Learning Award

  • The Dementia Team and Clinical Training Team

Sustainability and Efficiency Award

  • The Procurement Team

Leading and Inspiring Others Award

  • Dan White
  • Dr Anand Kulkarni
  • Natalie Van Weerdenburg
  • Melanie Wildman
  • Tom Riddeough

Partnership and Collaborative Working Award

  • Booking & Scheduling and Central Booking Office

Service Improvement Award

Winner:

  • NGPod Implementation Team

Highly Commended 

  • Integrated Service for Children with Additional Needs (ISCAN)

Our Heroes Award

  • Melissa Schofield
  • Janine Hadfield
  • Gillian Walsh
  • Jakki Minton
  • Caroline Sorriento
  • Gill Hilton
  • Dr Dipak Roy

Everyone Matters Compassion and Care

  • Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit Team

Great Patient Experience Award

  • Janet Cordwell-Harmer and Kerry Goodson

Support Team of the Year

  • Domestic Team

Clinical Team of the Year

  • Integrated Surgical Gynae Unit (ISGU)

 

 

 

Great Patient Experience Award

  • Cared for Children’s Team
  • MDT led Post Covid and Post Covid Syndrome Clinics and the Covid Team - winner
  • Adult Speech and Language Team
  • Patient Experience Team

Everyone Matters Compassion and Care Award

  • Christina Rapuano
  • Janet Shaw and Lina Pancaro
  • The Mortuary Team - winner
  • The Stroke Unit Therapy Team

Clinical Team of the Year

  • Integrated Services for Children with Additional Needs (ISCAN) - winner
  • Integrated Urgent Care Team (IUCT)
  • Respiratory Physiotherapy Team

Support Team of the Year

  • Corporate Information Team
  • Endoscopy Booking and Scheduling Team  -winner
  • Medical Staffing Team

Service Improvement Award

  • Cardio Respiratory Investigations Unit
  • Claire Harvey
  • Farrah Amjad and Denton, Audenshaw and Droylsden (DAD) District Nurses - winner
  • Stamford Satellite Pharmacy Team

Volunteers Award

  • John Bell
  • Pat Brookes
  • Arthur Egan - winner

Leading and Inspiring Others Award (all awarded)

  • Dawn Bennett Painter
  • Michael Boylan
  • Michelle Cunningham
  • Alison Goodall
  • Stacy Starr
  • Michelle Taylor
  • Miranda Woodhead

Our Heroes Award (all awarded)

  • Richard Ball
  • Freda Brereton
  • Paula Headen
  • Cliff Ibbertson
  • Azmat Nawaz
  • Jill Sutcliffe
  • Marta Wisniewska

Education and Learning Award

  • Medical Education Department
  • Keiron Sidebottom - winner

Partnership and Collaborative Working Award

  • GM Mass Vaccination Workforce Team - winner
  • Community Neurological Rehabilitation Team
  • Health Care Cadet Scheme
  • Research and Development Team
  • School Nursing and Immunisation Team

Sustainability Award

  • Medical Equipment and Devices Team
  • Uniform Swap Team - winner
  • Waste Porters