Making a Difference Awards 2025
On Friday 19 September 2025, UHDB held its Annual Making a Difference Awards ceremony, funded by the Dery & Burton Hospitals Charity at Hilton St George's Park, with 270 colleagues joining in an evening of recognising achievements from across the Trust.
Each year, we recognise and celebrate our people across UHDB through the annual Making a Difference Awards.
Teams and colleagues across UHDB demonstrate how they are working towards delivering Exceptional Care Together, whether directly or indirectly. This may be through improvements to quality and safety, supporting colleagues, or driving forward digital improvement, innovations or research, making positive changes across our sites, the local NHS system or even nationally.
The annual Making a Difference Awards is an opportunity to recognise an individual or team and thank them for their contributions and achievements in the past year by nominating them in one of the 10 categories.
Thank you to patients, relatives and colleagues who took the time to nominate a member of staff. This year we received over 1,600 nominations sharing how #TeamUHDB have demonstrated our Trust values of excellence, compassion and openness.
Congratulations to all those shortlisted:
Shortlist 2025
Behind the Scenes Hero Award
Winner
- James Howe, Royal Derby Hospital
Shortlisted nominees
- Andy Muggleton, Trustwide
- EPR Programme team, Trustwide
- Intelligent Automation team, Trustwide
Education and Learning Award
Winner
- Candy Collyer, Queen's Hospital Burton
Shortlisted nominees
- Apprenticeships Careers and Events team, Trustwide
- Dayana El Nsouli, Royal Derby Hospital
- Dr Aklak Choudhury, Trustwide
Patient Hero Award
Winner
- Home Haemodialysis team, Royal Derby Hospital
Shortlisted nominees
- Joanne York and Clare Crampton, Royal Derby Hospital
- Secondary Breast Cancer Support Group, Royal Derby Hospital and Queen's Hospital Burton
- Vikki Shanks and Jade Taylor, Trustwide
People Experience Award
Winner
- Amy Reaney, Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital
Shortlisted nominees
- Ellie Gompertz, Royal Derby Hospital
- HR Analytics, Trustwide
- Ward 209, Royal Derby Hospital
Value and Sustainability Award
Winner
- Nitrous Oxide Reduction Multidisciplinary team, Trustwide
Shortlisted nominees
- Catering team, Queen's Hospital Burton, Sir Robert Peel, Samuel Johnson and Florence Nightingale Community Hospitals
- Courier Services, Trustwide
- Natasha Lucas, Royal Derby Hospital
Quality and Safety Award
Winner
- Pulvertaft Hand Therapy team, Royal Derby Hospital
Shortlisted nominees
- Emergency Department Pharmacy Project team, Royal Derby Hospital
- Emma Ramsey, Royal Derby Hospital and Queen's Hospital Burton
- Transnasal Endoscopy team, Queen's Hospital Burton, Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital and Royal Derby Hospital
Research and Innovation Award
Winner
- Sam Hussain, Florence Nightingale Community Hospital and Royal Derby Hospital
Shortlisted nominees
- Anticoagulation team, Trustwide
- Dr Ben Smith, Trustwide
- S.P.A.R.K. team, Royal Derby Hospital
Communities and Partnerships Award
Winner
- Cardiometabolic Service team, Royal Derby Hospital
Shortlisted nominees
- CT Imaging Management team, Trustwide
- Dr Ruth Aldridge, Trustwide
- Orthopaedic Assessment Unit, Royal Derby Hospital
Championing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for our People and Communities Award
Winner
- South Derbyshire Bowel Cancer Screening team, Trustwide
Shortlisted nominees
- Chris Upton, Trustwide
- Dr Anna Selby, Royal Derby Hospital
- Jorden Gerring, Trustwide
Chair's Team of the Year Award
Winner
- UHDB Paediatric Diabetes Service, Trustwide
Shortlisted nominees
- Antimicrobial Stewardship team, Trustwide
- Cardiology Virtual Ward, Royal Derby Hospital
- Derby Parkinson's team, Royal Derby Hospital, Florence Nightingale Community Hospital and Queen's Hospital Burton
The type of information collected
For the awards we process the following information:
- Personal identifiers, contacts and characteristics (for example, name and contact details).
- Information relating to the care you, or someone close to you received at UHDB.
It is helpful to know who, when and where the nomination relates to, so that we can identify the area or staff member who is being nominated. However, if you prefer, you can make an anonymous entry.
How we get your personal information and why we have it
The information we process is provided to us directly by you to enable us to nominate our staff for a Patient Hero Award.
We share information that you have given with staff at UHDB who provided your care, in addition to our Communications team, to nominate them to receive an award at UHDB. We may share this information internally with staff at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton, and share externally on our website and social media to celebrate the winner and shortlisted staff for the awards.
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information is:
- Legitimate interests.
How we store your personal information
Your information is securely stored on Trust systems.
We keep the information you have provided up until our Making a Difference Awards have been presented (September 2025). All the information you have provided will then be deleted from our systems.
Contacting us and further information
If you have any questions about how information is used for the awards please contact us at uhdb.employeeawards@nhs.net. Further information on privacy at UHDB, and how we keep your data safe > is available on our website.
