Honours make NHS North West proud

Professor Jacky Hayden CBE

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NHS North West is adding its congratulations to two members of staff after they both received honours form the Queen in the New Year’s honours List.

The two, Professor Jacky Hayden (CBE) Shahnaz Ali (OBE), both hold executive jobs within the strategic health authority and have made dramatic impacts in to the way their areas of expertise have developed over the years. Their work and dedication has been recognised as they are awarded a CBE and OBE respectively. The Authority is congratulating them adding: “This is well deserved and a testimony to the commitment of the NHS to provide the highest quality service.”

Professor Jacky Hayden, Dean of Postgraduate Medical Studies for the North Western Deanery NHS North and Manchester and Lancaster Universities has been awarded the CBE for services to medical education. Jacky has held senior offices in the North Western Deanery for twenty-two years, in 1997 she was the first general practitioner in England to be appointed to the position of postgraduate dean. Jacky leads the development and quality management of postgraduate education for the 4,500 doctors and dentists in training who work across the North West. She has established systematic processes to ensure that doctors and dentists completing training in the North West learn to provide the highest possible patient care. She has a particular interest in ensuring that future doctors and dentists are able to provide compassionate, patient-focused leadership in the NHS.

Jacky has also led the development of medical education nationally. In 2012, she completed four years as the Chair of the Committee of English Deans; she was an inaugural member of Medical Education England and an active participant in the Medical Programme Board, including leading work on quality metrics for medical education. She has taken an active role in the Royal College of General Practitioners, serving for twenty-seven years on the Council and contributing to the development of standards for general practice.

Responding to the news of the award she said, “I am absolutely thrilled to be awarded the CBE, I am delighted that the work of the North Western Deanery has been recognised, they are a brilliant team. I believe it is so important that, as well as providing high quality care for our current patients, our NHS provides the highest quality education and training for our future practitioners.”

Shahnaz Ali, NHS North West’s Director for Equality, Inclusion and Human Rights has been given an OBE for services to Equality and Diversity. She is one of the NHS’s leading champions for Equality, Inclusion and Human Rights. She has promoted an ambitious but successful programme of quality transformation, influencing the way equality and inclusion is addressed in the North West region’s 63 NHS organisations. In 2009 she pioneered a process to accurately measure the performance of NHS organisations across a range of key areas essential to equal outcomes for all. This innovation was subsequently developed into the national Equality Delivery System.

Responding to the announcement of her award, Shahnaz said: “I am genuinely delighted to receive such a prestigious award. It underlines how important this work is. What we do helps to ensure that everyone in our society receives the same high quality of care when they use NHS services, and that the service recruits and retains the very best talents, regardless of personal characteristics such as their gender, race, disabilities, age, religion or sexual orientation. This is not just fair; it also helps improve the quality of NHS outcomes.”