The 2024 Above & Beyond Awards
And the winners are...
On Thursday 7th November 2024, Operose Health brought together 100 colleagues from across our organisation, and the country, for a night of celebration and recognition for the 2024 Above & Beyond Awards.
Our Above & Beyond Awards, or ABAs, are designed to recognise our colleagues who consistently go ‘above and beyond’ for our patients, communities and teams. The Above & Beyond Awards have six categories are and centred around Operose Health’s values:
- The Caring Award
- The Ambitious Award
- The Resourceful Award
- The Excellence Award
- The Team of the Year Award
- The Above & Beyond Award
Colleagues and teams are nominated by their peers for the awards, and from the over 140 nominations we received, those who were shortlisted for the awards were then invited to our awards ceremony held in Ansty Hall, Coventry.
What an evening it was!
We are delighted to announce that the winners of the 2024 ABAs are...
The Caring Award
Winner: Patricia Cyprien – Receptionist, Queens Road Surgery
Highly Commended: Wendy Muhly - Practice Manager, John Smiths Medical Centre and Loxford Practice
Patricia comes on stage to accept her award
The Ambitious Award
Winner: Ferdous Ahmed – Administrator, Lucas Avenue Practice
Highly Commended: Rebecca Cullum– PCN Manager, CGH Partnership
Becky Cullum and her CGH Partnership colleague, Hannah (Reception Manager)
The Resourceful Award
Winner: The Quality and Performance Team – Support Services
Highly Commended: Claire Osborne – Regional Operations Manager
The Quality & Performance Team
The Excellence Award
Winner: Dr Nadia Saeed – Regional Medical Director
Highly Commended: The Digital Central Team
Dr Nadia Saeed
The Team of the Year Award
Winner: Streatham PCN team – South East London
Highly Commended:
Kinghurst Medical Practice – Birmingham
Shakespeare Medical Practice – Leeds
Silverlock Medical Centre – London
The Above & Beyond Award
Winner: Dr Lucy Goodeve-Docker – Senior Regional Medical Director – London
Highly Commended: Amy Matthews – Practice Nurse, Silverlock Medical Centre
Dr Lucy Goodeve-Docker with her fellow Senior Leaders
“The best night of the year”
It truly was an honour to be able to bring so many of our colleagues together on this special night. In a time where demands on primary care have never been greater, our teams continue to show extraordinary resilience, adaptability and such commitment to our patients – and to each other.
Addressing our colleagues at the awards, CEO Samantha Kane said:
“As we’ve been learning more about our colleagues this evening and listening to the incredible work that they do, I can’t begin to tell you how proud and privileged I am to lead this organisation.
Standing here today is hugely special for me as your CEO, and for us as your Executive Team. My goodness how exciting is our future together? I hope you all are as proud of yourselves and your colleagues, as I am. On behalf of myself and the rest of the Executive Team, thank you”.
Samantha Kane
Operose Health CEO
We already can't wait for the 2025 awards!
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