Congratulations go to our Adult Diabetes and Community Hospital Pharmacy teams who picked up top prizes at the Scottish Healthcare Awards at Glasgow’s Crowne Plaza hotel in November.
The Diabetes Team was recognised in the Diabetes Project of the Year category for a project to change diabetes practice and ensure all patients have the opportunity to receive the essential nine processes of care every year with the overall aim of reducing diabetes complications in the future.
Dr Hannah Macpherson, Consultant Physician for Diabetes and Endocrinology, said: “It is wonderful to have our brilliant team and their innovative ideas and hard work recognised with this national award.”
Dr Macpherson attended the gala dinner and awards ceremony with team members Dr Louise Osbourne, Clinical Lead for Diabetes, Margaret Brown and Margaret Allan, Diabetes Screeners and Carolyn Kiddell, Lead Diabetes Specialist Nurse.
The Community Hospital Pharmacy Team – comprised of Hollie Houghton, Pauline Morrison, Cheryl More, Leanne Ross, Tracey Main, Callum Watson, Caroline Hudson and Kirstin Cassells – won the ‘Hospital Pharmacy Team of the Year’ award for helping to improve and enhance pharmaceutical care, leading to positive outcomes for local patients, reduced costs and greater collaboration with pharmacy colleagues from other hospitals.
Clare Colligan, NHS Forth Valley Associate Director of Pharmacy for Primary and Community Care Services, said: “I am thrilled that the hard work and commitment the Pharmacy Team shows every day to patients within the community hospitals has been recognised. They are passionate about ensuring the patients are not on medicines which they no longer benefit from, or are causing adverse effects, through a ‘what matters to me’ approach, which includes patients in the decision-making process.
“I am so proud of all they have achieved by utilising the small resource they have and working innovatively to maximise the benefits to patients. “
Laura Byrne, NHS Forth Valley Director of Pharmacy, added: “I’m absolutely delighted that the Community Hospital Pharmacy Team has won the award for Scottish Hospital Pharmacy Team of 2024. This massive achievement demonstrates the hard work, commitment and difference that the team make every day to patients residing within our community hospitals.
“I’d also like to mention the FV Acute Pharmacy team who were also finalists, who did not win this year. The fact that we had two hospital pharmacy teams from Forth Valley in the Scottish Healthcare Awards is amazing. Both teams are winners in my eyes. Well done to everyone involved.”
