Category: Awards

Four NHS Lothian nurses, along with a Lothian nursing team, have been announced as finalists in the prestigious RCN Scotland Nurse of the Year Awards 2024. The awards showcase the very best of nursing across Scotland, highlighting, and celebrating the unwavering commitment and remarkable professional care provided by nursing staff. Elaine Wilson, Community Staff Nurse,

April 12, 2024

People in Lothian are being encouraged to nominate their health heroes for NHS Lothian’s Celebrating Success Awards. NHS Lothian’s annual Celebrating Success Awards honour staff, in twelve different categories, who have gone over and above in their day-to-day job, embracing the organisation’s core values of care and compassion, dignity and respect, quality, teamwork, openness, honesty

March 28, 2024

Congratulations to NHS Lothian’s Jessica Davidson, Clinical Lead- South East Healthcare & Forensic Medical Services for People in Police Care and Nurse Lead for SARCS Network who received an MBE in the King’s New Year Honours List for services to forensic nursing and victim support in Scotland. As a trailblazer and one of the most

January 5, 2024

The policy team making history in NHS Scotland by leading the move away from harmful medical gases to more sustainable gases has won a 2023 Scottish Public Service Award.

December 13, 2023

Heather Duff, Nurse Team Leader, NHS Lothian, along with seven other Learning Disability (LD) nurses, came together to create an animation highlighting the need for improved support for individuals with learning disabilities within the justice system.

November 28, 2023

NHS Lothian has been honoured with three Mental Health Nursing Forum Awards. The ‘Earn while you Learn’ NHS Lothian and Open University pilot scheme designed to broaden access to Graduate Mental Health Nursing won the best ‘Innovations in Education’ award. It also went on to be declared the ‘Overall Winner’ of the 9 categories of

October 27, 2023

NHS Lothian’s Neonatal Unit, wider Children’s Services and Department of Clinical Neurosciences have been highly commended for their innovative partnership with digital healthcare company vCreate at the Innovate Awards. The awards, delivered in partnership between the AHSN Network and NHS Confederation, celebrate innovation in health and care. This year, they received over 190 entries from

October 10, 2023

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Staff in NHS Lothian have been recognised at two separate events for the work they’re doing to help the Health Board in its journey to Net Zero. At NHS  Lothian’s 2023 Celebrating Success staff awards a team of anaesthetists won a top honour  for their work in the Green Theatres programme to reduce the impact

September 14, 2023

The winners of our annual Celebrating Success Awards have been announced, honouring healthcare workers, support staff and volunteers across Lothian.

September 8, 2023

NHS Lothian Children’s Services is delighted to announce that the service has passed the LGBT Charter at Foundation level. The LGBT Charter is a national programme that supports organisations to continue to proactively include LGBTQ+ people in every aspect of their work, protecting their staff and providing a high-quality service. This award formally acknowledges the commitment of

June 27, 2023

NHS Lothian’s Medical Microbiology and Virology team were presented last night (22 June) with the RCPath Achievement Award. The RCPath Achievement Award exemplify excellence in pathology practice, education and training.  The winning team, who are spread over the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE), St John’s Hospital (SJH) and the Western General Hospital (WGH), were presented

June 23, 2023

Two Advanced Nurse Practitioners from NHS Lothian won prestigious awards at the RCN Scotland Nurse of the Year Awards ceremony yesterday (Wednesday 21 June 2023). Fiona Bruce, Paediatric Haematology/Oncology Advanced Nurse Practitioner, won Scotland’s People’s Choice Award and was nominated by the public for her work with children with cancer at home and in Africa. Fiona works at

June 22, 2023