Nominate your 'shining light' at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust for Patient Choice Award

Do you know an individual or team at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust who has gone the extra mile for you or a loved one and deserves recognition?

You can now nominate your unsung hospital hero for the Bury Free Press Patient Choice Award.

It is part of the trust’s Shining Lights awards, an annual celebration of staff and volunteer excellence.

Barry Peters, Bury Free Press editor, said: “This is your chance to highlight the commitment of a staff member or team who has made or continues to make a real difference to your experience at the trust.”

Three winners will be selected from the nominations, with one receiving the overall award of excellence trophy.

The award has been running for four years and last year went to ward sisters Jo Ribero and Ana da Silva after they helped to better the life of a patient on ward G5.

Their nominator said: “They have both gone out of their way to be reassuring to me, to listen to me when I was afraid. Because of these two members of staff I have not given up.”

Also shortlisted were children’s respiratory consultant Dr Melanie Iles who was nominated by a 10-year-old patient and her family, as well as the ward F9 team.

Sheila Childerhouse, chair of the trust, said: “Shining Lights is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the very genuine care, compassion and commitment that our staff put into doing their jobs.

“These values truly embody what it means to be part of the WSFT ‘family’, and they all make a difference to our patients.”

The annual awards ceremony will be held at West Suffolk Hospital on Wednesday, May 20.

To nominate an individual or team for the Bury Free Press Patient Choice Award, visit https://www.wsh.nhs.uk/Patient-choice-award.aspx

The deadline for entries is Monday, April 6.