Rewards for top quality nursing care

The Woods Awards, run by South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Warwick Hospital, give staff the opportunity to vote for their nursing colleagues who they believe have made a positive difference to a patient’s experience or introduced procedures that benefit the trust.

In joint first place were Tamara Harries, ward manager on the Guy Ward at Warwick Hospital, and Maggie Murray, community matron for the ‘virtual ward’ - which provides care outside the hospital - in Leamington and Warwick.

The Nursing Team of the Year award went to Parkinsons disease nurses Anna Blog and Anita Hallett, while runners up were the Leamington and Warwick virtual ward team and Warwick Hospital’s Guy Ward nurses.