The annual Kent Healthwatch and Medway Healthwatch Recognition Awards celebrate the people who work hard to improve their health and care services by listening to the people who use them. Here is a list of award winners in 2024 who work for NHS Kent and Medway and the health and care partnerships.
Recognition for excellence in involving people in commissioning and delivery of services
- Co-design of Medway and Swale Children and Young People Asthma Programme (Medway and Swale Health and Care Partnership Team).
- Crisis Peer Alternative Service (NHS Kent and Medway).
Recognition for excellence in enabling local people to monitor standards and make improvements
- Making every adult matter (Medway and Swale Health and Care Partnership Team).
Recognition for excellence in listening to people’s views and thoughts about services
- Women’s health and wellbeing (Shelley Whittaker, Deputy Director of Communications and Engagement, NHS Kent and Medway).
Recognition for excellence in consultation and scrutiny
- Maternity Community Connectors - engaging with vulnerable communities to tackle inequalities in maternity and neonatal care in Kent (Trish Mugwangi, LMNS Equity and Equality Lead and Bobbie Walkem-Smith, Communications and Engagement Manager, NHS Kent and Medway).
- Medway and Swale Health Catalyst Programme (Medway and Swale Health and Care Partnership Team).
Recognition for excellence in influence beyond our borders
- Kent and Medway Young Adults’ Mental Health and Wellbeing Conference 2023 (NHS Kent and Medway).
Recognition for excellence in collaboration
- Health Equalities Programme (East Kent Health and Care Partnership).
- Pathway Project (East Kent Health and Care Partnership).
- Mental Health Multi-disciplinary Team Service (West Kent Health and Care Partnership).
- Pharmacy First: Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (NHS Kent and Medway).
- Winter Well Events (East Kent Health and Care Partnership).
- An Inspector Calls: Guidance for GP practices preparing for CQC inspection (NHS Kent and Medway).
Recognition for excellence in inspiring individuals
- For harnessing their lived experience to facilitate a collaborative approach to the creation of a lived experience engagement and employment framework – Tamsyn Philips (Lived Experience Lead for Young Adults, NHS Kent and Medway).
- For inspirational leadership and drive to embed a population health management approach changing the culture and ways of cross sector working, creating a shared vision for changing the lives of the most disadvantaged communities (Nikki Teesdale, Director of Health and Care Integration and Improvement, Medway and Swale Health and Care Partnership).
Read about all the winning projects and how they involved patients and the public in the Healthwatch Recognition Awards winners brochure.