Nursing Team of the Year
RCN Scotland Nurse of the Year Awards
Across health and social care, nursing teams are working collaboratively to deliver innovation, service improvements and high-quality care.
About the award
Open to teams who can demonstrate the significance of the nursing contribution to a project’s success as well as its impact on patient care. This award aims to recognise that great nursing is often delivered in teams and in close partnership with multidisciplinary colleagues – or even patients or stakeholders.
Who can be nominated?
Nursing teams or a multidisciplinary team where the nursing role has been instrumental in the success of a project or service delivery.
Criteria:
The nomination should clearly demonstrate:
- the team’s commitment to person-centred care, innovation and delivering high-quality services that make a difference to the people receiving care
- the positive impact of the team’s work for service users, families and colleagues
- the use of a credible evidence base and/or developing an evidence base to under pin the team’s work for which they are being nominated
- how the team’s work contributes to the delivery of local and national policy and strategy within health and social care.
Sponsored by
Nominations have now closed and, following the judging process, our finalists have been chosen by our panels.
If you have any questions or queries regarding the awards, please get in touch by emailing scotlandnurseawards@rcn.org.uk
What makes a winner
ADRS Crisis Outreach Service
Glasgow City, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
Established in 2021, the ADRS Crisis Outreach Service in Glasgow City aims to reduce the increasing number of nonfatal overdoses and drug related deaths. With 12 nursing staff from across Addiction, Mental Health and Acute Adult nursing the team delivers a committed and understanding service for its patients. Tackling health inequalities, financial deprivation and stigmatisation, the team has developed a creative approach to engage this vulnerable and high-risk population through a focussed outreach approach across Glasgow city centre and its localities. In addition to supporting patients the team have provided practical and educational input with families, carers and a wide variety of support service staff to raise awareness and highlight the impact of alcohol and substance use on a person’s physical health, mental health and wider social networks. These interventions include training on recognising and managing a drug overdose, provision of naloxone including training on its use, access to recovery or support services across the city. The team’s inclusive approach has opened up opportunities to link in with a range of services to engage persons known and unknown to treatment services who have been identified as high risk or in alcohol or substance use crisis.
Sponsored by
About our sponsor
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) is the largest NHS organisation in Scotland and one of the largest in the UK.
NHSGGC delivers effective and high quality person centred health services, to act to improve the health of our population and to do everything we can to address the wider social determinants of health which cause health inequalities. It is one of the largest employers in Scotland with approximately 43,000 staff, including 13,270 qualified nurses and 4,100 medical and dental staff.
The Board provides strategic leadership and performance management for the entire local NHS system in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area and ensures that services are delivered effectively and efficiently. We are responsible for the provision and management of the whole range of health services in this area including hospitals and General Practice. We also work alongside partnership organisations including six Local Authorities and the voluntary sector.
NHSGGC:
- Serves a population of 1.3 million people
- Employs around 43,500 staff
- Has 35 hospitals of different types
- Has contracts with around 232 GP Surgeries (1300 General Practitioners)
- Has dental services in more than 279 locations
- Has almost 188 Optician practices
- Has over 50 Health Centres and Clinics
- Has more than 288 Pharmacies
- Has an annual budget of £3.3billion.
NHSGGC serves the people of:
- East Dunbartonshire
- East Renfrewshire
- Glasgow City
- Inverclyde
- Renfrewshire
- West Dunbartonshire.
Page last updated - 22/01/2024
