Welcome to the 2010 RCM Annual Midwifery Awards Programme. 
Our awards celebrate the excellence, innovation and impact of
midwifery practice in the UK
 

Click here to view a low resolution copy of the compendium of winners publication.
 
Shortlisted teams  
The Children's Mutual Award for Excellence in Partnership Working

WINNER  The BOAT (Better Outcomes Achieved Together) at Tameside
Lesley Tones, Head of Midwifery and Women's Services and Emma McDonough, Health Visitor Team Leader, Tameside NHS Foundation Trust

HIGHLY COMMENDED Infant Parent Perinatal Service Partnership (IPPS)
Sian Warriner- Consultant Midwife; Gerry Byrne- Consultant Psychiatric Nurse + Child Physiotherapist, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust


Bump to Baby- Reaching Out to Women
Tracey Cooper, Consultant Midwife; Anthea Griffiths- Childrens centre midwife/ Lactation consultant, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust


Pampers Award for Team of the Year 

WINNER ALERT: Adverse Labour Event Review Team
Margaret Rogan- Practice Educator; Nuala Sherry- Risk Co-ordinator, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

Leighton Hospital's Home Birth Team

Janet Millar- Midwife; Bev Jervis- Midwife, Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Teenage Pregnancy Team
Susan Sasse- Midwife; Colleen Robinson- Midwife, Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust


Pregnacare Award for Research into Practice
WINNER Getting it right at the very beginning - Care Bundle for the latent phase of labour
Elizabeth Davies- Consultant Midwife; Liz Rees- Birth Centre Midwife, ABM University Health Board

Biological nurturing: how we are transforming theory in practice
Sarah Gregson - Consultant Midwife; Jean Meadows- Lead Operational Midwife, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust


Recognition and treatment of acute life threatening events in obstetric emergencies
Mary Coakley- Clinical Midwifery Manager; Jane Gray- Midwifery Clinial Teacher, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
   
Johnson's Baby Award for Excellence in Midwifery Education   

WINNER Interactive puzzles for clinical midwifery education
Lyndsay Durkin- Clinical Lead for Normality, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Integrating real time obstetric emergencies in a Univeristy environment

Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent- Head of Midwifery Education; Sheila Baldwin- Lecturer Practitioner, London South Bank University

Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers: innovative, interactive midwifery education using an online learning package
Alison Taylor- Senior lecturer in Midwifery; Andy Pulman- Web Team Leader, Bournemouth University

 
   
Philips Avent Award for Innovation in Midwifery   
WINNER Feeding Matters Educating for Informed choice, nurturing and inclusion
Michelle Davidson- Parent Education Coordinator; Carolyn Worlock- Infant Feeding Advisor, NHS Lothian

The Maternity Digipen

Jayne Jempson- Deputy Head of Midwifery; James Barkshire- ICT Blackbery Specialist, Portsmouth Hospitlas NHS Trust

Maternity Care Assistants: The potential to develop a new role to support and enhance midwifery care especially within the community setting
Gail Bell- Department Manager/Senior Midwife; Phyllis Aitken- Maternity Care Assistant, NHS Forth Valley

 
   
Bounty Award for Promoting Normal Birth   

WINNER Back to Basics
Claire Allan- Team Leader Labour Ward/Project Lead; Alison Talbot- Marton Project Lead, NHS West Midlands

Pathway for Normal Maternity Care in Scotland - development and implementation
Fiona Dagge-Bell- Professional Practice Development Officer/ Maternal & Child Health; Lucy Powls- Project Lead, NHS Quality Improvement Scotland

Birth at Home in Glasgow
Sheona Brown - Consultant Midwife; Dorothy Finlay - Consultant Midwife, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

 
   
National Maternity Support Foundation Award for Bereavement Care   

WINNER Care of the Bereaved Family
Jayne Welch- Senior Midwife; Barbara Hanson- Midwife/Bereavement Counsellor, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Creating the new role of Bereavement Midwife

Julia Lidderdale- Bereavement Midwife; Jacqui Nash- Labour Ward Co-ordinator/Supervisor of Midwives, West Middlesex Hospital NHS Trust

Leighton Maternity Bereavement Support Service
Fiona Twist- Midwife; Gill Blackhurst- Midwife, Mid Cheshire Hospital Trust

 
   
National Childbirth Trust Award for Development of Services Addressing Inequalities in Health   
WINNER Reaching the seldom heard women of Newham
Fiona Laird- Maternity Modernisation Commissioner; Tracy Beeching- Maternity Project Manager, NHS Newham

Working Together to Improve Perinatal Mental Wellbeing

Bernie Stokes- Lead Midwife (Substance Misuse); Mary Brennan- Lead Midwife (Mental Health), Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Homerton Maternity Helpline
Philippa Cox- Consultant midwife; Alison Russell- Helpline Co-ordinator, Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust
 
   
Department of Health Award for Implementing Government Policy    

WINNER Responding to Government policy and reducing failure to recognise
Kathryn Murphy- HOM/ADNS/Lecturer; Helen Hindle- Senior Midwife/ Lecturer, Salford Royal Hospital/Salford University/Pennine Acute Trust


Towards a positive future: Addressing inequalities in health and service provision for young parents and parents to be
Lyn Spencer- Midwife; Alison Langdale- Midwife, York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Selby Area Children's Centre, Mums2B York & Selby

 
   
NHS Employers Award for Excellence in Recruitment and Retention    

WINNER 'what we do best' - An innovative approach to recruitment and retention in midwifery
Hilary Thomas- New hospital development project manager; Sarah Gregson- Consultant Midwife, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust


Supporting Midwives: A Proceptorship Programme

Lola Brigid- Midwife; Caroline Broome- Midwife, East Lancashire NHS Hospitals


A portfolio based preceptor programme
Krystyna Grey- Supervisor Of Midwives; Linda Matthews- Senior Midwife Practice Development, Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

 
   
Johnson's Baby Mum's Midwife of the Year   

Overall Winner
Midlands & South West Winner 
Hayley Darby, Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley

Scotland
, Marion Campbell, Carmondean Health Centre, Livingston, West Lothian

 

London & South East, Gill Dawson, Southend University Hospital

 

Wales, Judith Gibby, Llandough Hospital, Cardiff

 

Northern Ireland, Heidi McKillen, Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital, Belfast

 

North East, Sally Wilson, Barnsley NHS Foundation trust

 

 

 

 
   

Thompsons' Members' Champion Award for RCM Workplace Representative

 

WINNER Barbara Curtis, Hull and East Yorks NHS Trust

Sue Ng, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust


Claudette Reid, London Ambulance Service

 
 
Pampers Student Vision Award   

Pampers Student Vision Award: Midwifery Study Tour to South India
Debra Flynn- Student Midwife; Gemma Slator- Student Midwife, Thames Valley University

Are you a star of your profession?
Shelley Lacey- Student Midwife; Sarah Powell- Student Midwife, University of Leeds


Elective placement to Ketchene Clinic, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Charlotte Monnelly- Student Midwife, University of Glamorgan

 

Awards administration: Chamberlain Dunn