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The 2024 Above & Beyond Awards

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

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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

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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

Q&P team

The Quality & Performance Team 

The Excellence Award

Winner: Dr Nadia Saeed – Regional Medical Director

Highly Commended: The Digital Central Team

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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

Streatham PCN team

The Above & Beyond Award

Winner: Dr Lucy Goodeve-Docker – Senior Regional Medical Director – London

Highly Commended: Amy Matthews – Practice Nurse, Silverlock Medical Centre

London leaders

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 

Samantha Kane, CEO addresses Operose Health colleagues at the ABAs

We already can't wait for the 2025 awards! 

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