Rochdale NHS staff recognised at annual Northern Care Alliance awards

Date published: 17 December 2021

Local NHS staff including a team who supported dying patients and their families throughout the Covid-19 pandemic have been named Northern Care Alliance NHS (NCA) Foundation Trust Staff Award 2021 winners.

Ten overall winners were announced by the alliance on Friday 3 December, with awards handed out to individuals and teams across the NCA, which provides hospital and community healthcare services in Rochdale, Oldham, Bury and Salford.

Winners were also announced for each care organisation, with unsuspecting workers from Rochdale Care Organisation joined by a range of NCA directors in their workplace who paid tribute to their amazing contribution to the organisation over a difficult year.

Recognised for their work in the borough, Rochdale Care Organisation winners included:

• Customer Experience Award - Children’s Single Point of Access Team

• Quality and Safety Award - Home in a Day Team

• Research, Innovation and Education Award - Community Stroke Team

• Team of the Year Award - Theatre Team

• Individual of the Year Award - Marie Kissack, Heart Failure Service

• Social Value Award - Jody Cockroft, Wolstenholme Unit

• Leadership Award - Melinda Taylor, Clinical Assessment Unit
• Volunteer of the Year Award - Rochdale Volunteer Team

All winners were selected from a pool of over 600 nominations, which were made by NCA staff members.

NCA Chairman Professor Luger said: “Our Staff Award winners are representative of our fantastic workforce who for almost two years now have pulled out all the stops under the most difficult of circumstances. Choosing winners was the hard part but reading all the nominations to get us to this point was a joy.

“Not that we needed reminding, but it was clear to us that despite the challenges of Covid-19 our staff members have still achieved some amazing things for our patients, service users and each other.

“Via the Staff Awards, we’ve shone a light on a group of individuals and teams across the organisation, but we are in no doubt that our winners represent a 20,000-strong group of stars.”