The 2024 NHS Parliamentary Awards 2024 are now open for nominations across the region. This is where MPs get to recognise staff who go above and beyond to deliver excellence in healthcare.

This year we’ve seen significant demand across North East and Yorkshire’s NHS services. Despite these pressures, staff across the country have continued to provide excellent care and have found innovative ways to meet these challenges and improve patients’ experiences.

Now more than ever, it’s crucial to highlight the achievements of those working in the NHS. MPs across the region can now nominate individuals and teams in their local area who’ve gone above and beyond in their roles.

As the NHS launches the prestigious awards, we look back at our previous winners. Last year the North East and Yorkshire region won one award and were highly commended in another.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust won The Future NHS Award for their work on developing an artificial intelligence cardiac diagnostic tool and The NHS Practitioner Health Team were highly commended for the confidential mental health service they provide for NHS staff in England and Scotland.

This year there are 10 award categories, including the new Excellence in Education and Training Award, which recognises a team or individual that is leading the way in supporting the delivery of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan through innovative approaches to education. This could be through things like using virtual and augmented reality to help train clinicians or championing new approaches to education which attract new staff from diverse backgrounds, such as through apprenticeships.

After nominations have closed on Friday 19 April, all of those shortlisted by the national judging panel will be invited to the awards ceremony in Westminster on Monday 1 July, to celebrate their fantastic achievements alongside the MPs who nominated them.

Richard Barker, Regional Director at NHS England – North East and Yorkshire, said:

“The 2024 NHS Parliamentary Awards provide an opportunity for our regional MPs to celebrate our hardworking NHS staff in what has been a challenging year but one of steady improvement in our post pandemic recovery journey.

“We have some of the most deserving healthcare professionals, NHS services and NHS organisations here in the North East and Yorkshire, and it would be fantastic to see them receive recognition for their work by receiving a Parliamentary Award Nomination from our regional MPs.

“Last year we received over 100 nominations regionally, all demonstrating exceptional work going on across our local NHS providers. It was great that we had one regional winner alongside a highly commended nomination.

“I am looking forward to receiving lots of nominations this year and hearing about all the fantastic work our NHS colleagues have been doing.”

For more information on how to nominate and the criteria for each category, visit www.nhsparliamentaryawards.co.uk