Stafford children’s team is nominated for inaugural Award

A Community Children’s Nursing Team (CCN), based at Stafford General Hospital, has been nominated for the Patients’ Choice – Quality and Excellence Awards, organised by South Staffordshire Primary Care Trust (PCT).

[UKPRwire, Thu Aug 27 2009] The service, which launched in 1994, consists of a team of nine children’s nurses, and has been selected for the ‘Team Award’ for the work they do in and around South Staffordshire.

Learning about the short listing this week, Kathryn Wilson, team leader for the CCN service (Stafford) said: “We are absolutely delighted to have been nominated for this award.

“The strength of our service is the team and it is great to receive recognition for all their hard work, but, we also recognise the enormous undertaking of parents and carers providing care to sick children at home.”

South Staffordshire PCT launched the Patients’ Choice – Quality and Excellence Awards in April and received nearly 100 nominations from patients and the public in South Staffordshire who had identified quality of care and sheer excellence of service and wanted to recognise this by nominating staff, carers and members of the public who have contributed to health and social care locally.

A panel of judges consisting of five independent representatives had the difficult job of selecting the shortlist within the six categories which will now go forward to the Awards ceremony in September.

The ceremony will be held on September 9 at the Staffordshire County Showground in Stafford.