Hurry, make sure your nominations are in for our Annual Awards. It’s that time of year again when we celebrate the incredible people and teams who make a real difference across our trust.
Nominations for the 2026 Annual Awards close at 5pm on Friday 7 August, so don’t miss your chance to recognise someone deserving.
Whether it’s a member of our staff, volunteer, peer support worker or team, now is the time to shine a light on those who go above and beyond. From achieving something outstanding and improving patient care to supporting colleagues or introducing innovative ideas, help us celebrate the people making a positive impact every day.
Patients and the public can nominate a member of our staff, volunteer, peer support worker, or team in our Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) Annual Awards 2026.
These awards celebrate and recognise the exceptional care and compassion shown to patients by our colleagues, and the commitment of volunteers and peer support workers who give their time to benefit our patients.
Toby Lewis, Chief Executive, said:
“These awards give us a chance to say thank you to our volunteers, peer support workers and colleagues for providing the very best care to our patients and their families. We want to recognise their efforts and invite you to nominate someone who deserves to be celebrated.”
You can enter any of our staff, volunteers, peer support workers or teams, who have made a real difference to the care and services of the trust in the following categories:
We have 4 awards are for a member of staff, team, project, or idea which has made an incredible contribution to the trust’s work:
- Quality and safety award
- Equity and inclusion award
- Learning and education award
- Research and innovation award
There are 5 awards for a member of staff, volunteer, peer support worker or team which exemplify the trust’s values of passionate, reliable, caring and safe, supportive, open, and progressive:
- Living our values award
- Nurturing the power in our communities’ exemplar award
- Equality diversity and inclusion champion award
- Volunteer of the year award
- Peer support worker of the year award
And we have 5 awards are for a member of staff or team which has made a big difference in 2025 and 2026:
- Colleague of the year clinical award
- Colleague of the year backbone award
- Leader of the year award
- Backbone team of the year award
- Team of the year adult clinical care award
- Team of the year children’s clinical care award
Backbone services are what we call our corporate services and include information technology (IT), human resources (HR) and finance.
Paper copy nomination forms are also available by phoning the Communications team on 03000 212 100.
The closing date for nominations is Friday 7 August at 5pm.
The lucky winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Friday 20 November at Doncaster Racecourse.
Published: July 23, 2026
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