Nominate the borough’s best health talent

Local residents have the opportunity to nominate GPs and GP practice staff who go the extra mile to provide high quality patient care.

The STAR Awards aim to celebrate and recognise staff for the excellent work they do.

The People’s STAR (Nancy Fallon Memorial Award) is voted for by the public and patients and will go to a GP, practice manager, practice nurse, GP receptionist or healthcare worker who is deserving of special recognition for their high quality, compassionate and individualised patient care.

Five other awards are nominated by staff internally within the health service for special achievements. For the second year, the Sustainable STAR will reward and promote environmental best practice among GP practices in Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale. The other four awards are:

• Silent STAR - For a person or team that consistently supports colleagues, makes a real contribution to the Rochdale borough or just makes people smile – the little things matter.
• Innovation STAR - For a person, team or project that has contributed to improving patient care in the Rochdale borough through innovation or service improvement.
• Shining STAR - For a person or team’s extraordinary work or achievements to support the work of NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Clinical Commissioning Group.
• STAR team - For a team that works together to demonstrate excellence in its work towards improving the health of local people in the Rochdale borough. 

Dr Chris Duffy, Chairman of organisers HMR CCG, said:: “Our People’s STAR award is a great opportunity for patients and local people to celebrate and publicly recognise the excellent work that GP practice staff do in Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale.

"If you've been impressed with the care you've received or the way you've been treated by your GP or someone at your GP practice, this is your chance to say ‘thank you’ by nominating them.”

How to nominate:

To help with shortlisting and the final selection of winners, you should give as much detail as possible about the person or team you are nominating within the word limit. This could be about their achievements; approach to colleagues, patients, work, change or challenges; reasons why they are a great example for others and employees of which the NHS can be proud; or what they've done to provide excellent customer service.

Be clear about why you think the person or team you are nominating is a HMR STAR. Say why, in up to 200 words, you feel they deserve an award.

Complete a nomination form below and post it to:

HMR Star Awards
Freepost RTGA-LJBY-SYAB
NHS HMR Clinical Commissioning Group
PO Box 100
Rochdale
OL16 9NP

Nominations will close on 31 March and the winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on Thursday 29 June.

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