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Looking after our community and providing excellent care

Team Orkney Awards 2025 - Shortlist 2025

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Clinical Team of the Year

  • Dialysis 
  • Podiatry 
  • Day Unit 

Non-Clinical Team of the Year

  • Central Decontamination Unit 
  • Domestic Team 
  • Improvement Hub 

Providing Excellent Care

  • Emma Sutherland and Theresa Ritch – Specialist Midwives in Fertility  
  • Stuart Drummond – Physiotherapy Assistant  
  • Ultrasound Team 

Leader of the Year

  • Carl Savage – IT Service Desk Lead  
  • Louise Willis - Service Manager - Children’s Health Services 
  • Sarah Campbell - Facilities Business Support Officer 

Learner of the Year

  • Hannah Leslie – Trainee School Nurse  
  • Laura van Schayk – Biomedical Scientist  
  • Louise Moar – Dialysis Nurse  

Special Recognition

  • Dr Kevin Fox - Consultant Physician/Cardiologist 
  • Nikki Coghill - Radiography Assistant Practitioner 
  • Moira Sinclair – Clinical Nurse Manager  

Continuous Improvement

  • Digital Service Team 
  • Sarah Lyon - Reporting Radiographer/General Lead 
  • Zoe Page – Midwife and Midwife Sonographer 

Open and Honest

  • Ian Coghill - Health Intelligence Senior Analyst 
  • Joy Tait and Karen Barnett – Cancer Audit and Cancer Waiting Times Co-ordinators 
  • Sharon Keyes – Head of Facilities and NPD Contracts  

Respect– sponsored by UNISON

  • Lizzie Saunders – Radiology Administrator  
  • Kyran Taylor – Project Support Officer  
  • Merrick Welbon – Senior Health Care Support Worker  

Kindness

  • Belinda Richards – Bank Health Care Support Worker  
  • Jenny Wilson – Senior Theatre Nurse  
  • Kim Hamilton – Ward Clerk 

Excellence in the Community

  • John Macdonald - Advanced Nurse Practitioner for Rousay, Egilsay, Wyre and Gairsay 
  • Kate Shiner - Specialist Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist
  • Louise Smith and Lorna Drever – Relief Community Nurses 

Star of the Future

  • Chloe Crawford - NPD Contract Business Support Officer
  • Fiona Learmonth – Clinical Teaching Fellow
  • Nikki Coghill - Radiography Assistant Practitioner 

People’s Choice Award - In partnership with The Orcadian

  • Donald McLean – Specialist Neurological Physiotherapist  
  • Emergency Department  
  • Hoy First Responders  
  • Lily Corse - Medical Laboratory Assistant & Biomedical Sciences Student 
  • Louise Brewer - Infant Feeding Improvement Specialist & Health Visitor 
  • Dr Rita Mildner – Geriatrician Consultant
Getting in touch

We shall be delighted to hear from you, so here are the various ways of contacting us:

The Balfour

By telephone to:
01856 888100
(during office hours)

01856 888000
(out of hours)

By e-mail to:
ORK.feedback@nhs.scot

By letter to the address below:

Foreland Road
Kirkwall
Orkney
KW15 1NZ