Team Orkney Awards 2025 – Shortlist 2025

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Clinical Team of the Year

  • Dialysis
  • Day Unit
  • Podiatry Team

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 Services Team
  • Sarah Lyon –  Reporting Radiographer/General Lead 
  • Zoe Page – Midwife and Midwife Sonographer 

Open and Honest

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

Respect – sponsored by UNISON

  • Elizabeth 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
  • Lily Corse – Medical Laboratory Assistant & Biomedical Sciences Student 
  • Lou Brewer – Infant Feeding Improvement Specialist & Health Visitor 
  • Dr Rita Mildner – Geriatrician Consultant
  • Hoy First Responders