Nominate your hospital hero!

The Oldham Care Organisation is asking the public to nominate hospital staff and teams for the ‘Patients’ Choice Award’ category

The Royal Oldham Hospital is asking the public to nominate their NHS heroes as part of its annual staff awards event.

If you or a relative have had amazing treatment at The Royal Oldham Hospital, or if you or your family want to thank a particular doctor, nurse, support worker, or ward that did their best to treat and look after you, then this is your chance.

The Oldham Care Organisation, which is run as part of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group (Salford Royal and Pennine Acute Trusts), is asking the public to nominate hospital staff and teams for the ‘Patients’ Choice Award’ category.

The Patients’ Choice Award gives the general public the opportunity to say ‘thank you’ and publicly recognise the outstanding care and treatment given to either them, a relative or close friend.

The Care Organisation executive team will select four finalists and it will then be over to members of the public to choose the overall winner via an online vote.

Sir David Dalton, Chief Executive of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group, said: “This award is chosen by the public, which makes it extra special. Nothing is more rewarding than a doctor, nurse, porter, healthcare assistant, physio or receptionist being told they are doing a great job by the people they look after.

"It’s great the public can recognise staff that go the extra mile, provide exceptionally high quality healthcare and great patient experience.

"If you know somebody who works at The Royal Oldham Hospital who has done a great job then tell us all about it, we would love to hear from you.”

If you have been a patient or visitor at The Royal Oldham Hospital, you can nominate a staff member, clinical or non-clinical, by submitting an online nomination form via: www.pat.nhs.uk or call Josie Neil on 0161 627 8703.

The closing date for nominations is midnight Thursday, September 20.

The winner of the Patients’ Choice Award will be announced at the Northern Care Alliance Staff Awards evening on November 16 at the Sheridan Suite, Manchester.

The awards will be hosted by the Chief Executive Sir David Dalton and Chairman Jim Potter.

The Northern Care Alliance brings together five hospitals, 2000 beds, specialist and acute services, a range of associated community services, and over 17,000 staff across Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.  

The Alliance oversees four Care Organisations for Salford, Oldham, Bury/Rochdale, and North Manchester which are responsible for providing hospital and community healthcare services to over 1m people across our local communities.

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