Patients and the public are being encouraged to nominate a member of staff, volunteer, or team for our 2025 awards.
The annual awards celebrate and recognise the exceptional care and compassion shown to patients by colleagues, and the commitment of volunteers, who give their time to benefit patients.
Toby Lewis, Chief Executive, said: “These awards give us a chance to say thank you to our volunteers and colleagues for providing the best care to our patients and their families. We want to recognise their efforts and invite you to nominate a staff member, volunteer or a team for an award.”
Nominations are open until Friday 8 August. The public can enter any of our trust’s staff, volunteers or teams, which have made a real difference to the care and services of the trust in the following categories:
Four 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
Five awards for a member of staff, volunteer 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
Five awards are for a member of staff or team which has made a big difference in 2024 and 2025:
- 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 the trust’s corporate services and include information technology, human resources and finance.
Paper copy nomination forms are available by phoning the Communications team on 03000 212100.
The closing date for nominations is Friday 8 August at 5pm.
The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Friday 21 November at Doncaster Racecourse, Bawtry Road, DN2 6BB.

Published: June 25, 2025
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