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The winner for January 2012:

Deborah Elliot, Head and Neck/Thyroid Specialist Nurse

Deborah is a head and neck/thyroid specialist nurse, supporting patients on both the wards and in the outpatient department.  Working alongside the consultants, she keeps in regular contact with her patients offering further support and advice at home.  Debbie is a consistent support to the nursing staff on the wards and is always available to offer them guidance.

This comment was made about Deborah in the nominations, by a member of staff.  Judges picked this comment out from over thirty nominations.

• Debbie has worked really hard to develop an electronic data collection tool for use by the entire Nurse Specialist team. This will help the team to identify our working patterns, and will lead to service development and improving patient care. She's also been able to do this at no added cost to the Trust.

The winner for December 2011: 

Helen Mitchell, Nurse Clinician

Helen is nurse clinician within the medical oncology breast team. She also manages the breast clinical nurse specialist team.

This comment was made about Helen in the nominations, by a member of staff.  Judges picked this comment out from over thirty nominations.

• Helen is both an excellent nurse and manager. She manages the breast care
  nurses and is extremely supportive.
• Helen has been managing the herceptin service as the sole nurse clinician over the last few months single handedly and always manages to offer an excellent service both in terms of its quality and efficiency.
• Helen is most definitely a worthy candidate for employee of the month.

The winner of the November 2011 Employee of the Month was:-

Hilary Oldham lead clinical technician;

Hilary is the lead clinical technician; her role is assisting the pharmacists on the wards with clinical duties and leading the clinical technician team. She is heavily involved in providing clinical pharmacy services to patients on the wards which includes medication history taking ensuring patients have adequate supply of medication both as an in patients and when discharged from the hospital. She is involved in patient medication counseling.

The winner of the September 2011 Employee of the Month was:-

Ann Buchan, Inpatient Chemotherapy Co-ordinator

Ann works as Inpatient Chemotherapy Coordinator in the patient treatment centre.

Ann has been nominated by members of the public/patients and colleagues for her hard work and has been selected by our judges following so many positive comments.

The winner of the August  2011 Employee of the Month was:

Nelia Collins, Domestic Assistance, Support Services

Nelia works as a Domestic Assistant on the YOU.

Nelia has been nominated by members of the public/patients for her efforts and has been selected by our judges for working in line with one of our Christie values 'Clean, tidy and safe environment'.

Not only does Nelia clean the YOU to a high standard she has been complimented on her disposition how personable she is with patients.

The winner of the July 2011 Employee of the Month was:-

Linda Davies, Ward Administrator

Linda works as a Ward Administrator. She is managed by the Health Records Team but is based on ward 11. She meets and greets the patients and ensures that they have all the appointments for treatment and clinics. Linda also arranges transport for patients, handles a lot of telephone queries and undertakes all filing of medical notes.

The winner of the June Employee of the Month was:-

Charlotte Finchett, Linac Support Worker

Charlotte works as a Linac support worker. Her role is to work on the Linac reception and she deals with most of the clerical work for the Linacs that she is working for.  She meets and greets the patients and ensures that they have all the appointments for treatment and clinics. She will also ensure that the patients have the correct information and support by liaising with the radiographers.

The winner of the May 2011 Employee of the Month was:-

David Pickersgill, Ward 4 manager

David is always professional, well presented and considers no duty too small to ensure patients receive high quality care in a safe environment, and has continually supported his staff through education, encouragement and compassion.

The winner of the April 2011 Employee of the Month was:-

Katy Burns, Senior Clinical Trials Administrator

Katy is based on the research annex and works closely with the lung and melanoma team. Katy is very hard working, enthusiastic, professional and a pleasure to work with. She maintains a high level of work for all our trials and has coped so well due to poor staffing levels on the team.  She has single handed maintained the data collection responsibilities of the Lung and Melanoma team running smoothly during extreme staff shortages. 

The winner of the March 2011 Employee of the Month was:-

Anita Igoe, Health Care Assistant

Anita is based mainly on ward 4 and also works for a few evenings on the chemo suite. She is excellent with patients and has a helpful and cheery disposition. She also brings in sweets for her colleagues!

The winner of the February Employee of the Month was:-

Eamonn Pyke, Health Care Assistant

Eamonn got two very touching nominations.  Although one is from a colleague and the other from a patient, they both say the same thing but from a different angle; that Eamonn is a good and caring person.  This is the essence of what makes staff at The Christie so special

The winner of the January 2011 Employee of the Month was:-

Liz Alflatt, Senior Learning Administrator

Liz has been very involved in the move of the L&D department and the Maguire Unit and you can see from the comments made about her just how much her hard work and willing attitude were appreciated by her colleagues.  Everyone comments on what a fantastic job she's done and how organised she has been.  

The winner for February 2012:

 Carol McDonald

Carol McDonald is a senior Radiographer in the Radiotherapy department.  She joined the Christie August 2009 after completing her undergraduate degree at Cardiff University.  As a student Carol won the Society of Radiographers national award for student of the year (2009).