A huge congratulations goes out to all teams and individuals who were nominated for this year’s awards; the Trust is incredibly proud of you. All nominations were of an exceptionally high standard.
The finalists for this year’s awards are as follows:
Delivering Exceptional Care Award
Awarded to a team or individual who has delivered exceptional care.
- Intermediate care – Multiple teams including Community Therapy, Flow team, Community Inpatients, Community Nursing
- Lisa Armstrong
- Saskia Bauweraerts
Excellence in Enabling Services Award
This award recognises the work undertaken by our enabling services to support the Trust to make a difference and build compassionate care and wellbeing for all.
- Darryl Brewin
- Jeff Hardy
- Carolyn Willows
Excellence in Leadership Award
This award recognises exemplary inclusive, compassionate leadership that demonstrates a positive and sustained impact on staff, volunteers, patients and service users.
- Hannah Blackwell
- Saskya Falope
- Ed Trimbee
Excellence in Patient or Service User Involvement Award
This award recognises teams, patient and staff collaborations or projects that have used innovative or outstanding practice to involve patients, service users or carers in continuously improving their services.
- Co Production Working Group
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Digital Development Team
- Raj Gill-Harrison
Excellence in Quality Improvement and Innovation Award
This award recognises an outstanding commitment to quality improvement and innovation, that has resulted in measurable benefits for LPT’s patients, service users and/or staff.
- Combined Annual Health Check Pilot Team
- Louise Martin and Claire Hubbard
- Karen Pardoe
Excellence in Research Award
This award recognises individuals who have driven the use of research for improvements, undertaken exemplary research or exceeded expectations around involving patients, services users and/or staff in research studies.
- Community Integrated Neurology and Stroke Service and Acquired Brain Injury
- Gemma Phillips
- Mental Health Support Team in Schools
Group Excellence Award
This award is to celebrate teams, projects or initiatives working together across the Leicestershire Partnership and Northamptonshire Healthcare Associate University Group.
- Quality, Compliance and Regulation Team
- WeImproveQ Team
Making a Difference Together – Social Value Awards
This new award for 2026 recognises partnership work to develop integrated, person-centred initiatives – through multi-agency working/partnership arrangements with local agencies, voluntary organisations and community groups.
- Maternal Mental Health Service
- Acquired Brain Injury Case Management Service
- Clinical Academic Team
Rising Star Award
This new award for 2026 recognises staff in the early stages of their career or role who have shown exceptional promise, passion, and dedication to improving care and services.
- Umaymah Dakri
- Lauren Bland
- Kelly Barber
Special Recognition – CEO/Chair Award
Selected by the Chair and Chief Executive of the Trust, this award recognises an individual for their exceptional practice or contribution to LPT.
- Paula Walton
- Claire Armitage
- Saskya Falope
Team of the Year Award
This award recognises teams who work flexibly and collaboratively, with a ‘can do’ approach to overcoming barriers, delivering continuous improvements for patients, service users and/ or staff.
- HR Resourcing Team
- Children’s Physiotherapy Team
- Clare Pope and the Agnes Unit
Valuing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award
This award recognises those who demonstrate an outstanding commitment to valuing and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion for service users and/or staff.
- Mark Farmer, Raj Gill Harrison, Robin Cafferata, Sam Leak – Spectrum community
- Judy Eggett
- Jenny Roberts and Siouxie Nelson
Valuing our People – Champion of the Year Award
This new award for 2026 recognises individuals who have gone above and beyond their usual roles to continuously commit to improving staff experience and culture at LPT; helping us to become a great place to work and deliver care.
- Azar Richardson
- Gemma Barfoot
- Fatima Mohammed
Volunteer(s) of the Year Award
Awarded to an individual volunteer or team of volunteers who volunteer for LPT and have made an outstanding contribution to helping LPT go above and beyond.
- LPT Infant feeding Team
- Rachel Tasker
- Alix Glazier
Well done to everyone nominated and everyone who has been shortlisted as finalists!
The winners will be revealed from each of these finalists on the night of the awards ceremony on Thursday 1 October. A huge thank you to our headline sponsor Tilbury Douglas for making the event possible.
