We’ve had a fantastic response to our 2025 Pennine Care People Awards, with 516 submissions received. We’re pleased to announce our finalists below.
This year’s submissions were exceptionally strong, demonstrating the breadth of remarkable work taking place across our organisation. Together our amazing #PennineCarePeople are making a huge difference to the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in our communities.
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Finalists:
- British Transport joint response service
- Cloughside College
- New starters project team
Runners up:
- Bury living well team
- Family intervention and therapy service
Shortlisted:
- Beech Ward therapy team
- Bury parent infant mental health service and Bury local authority early years service
- CONNECT STUDY TEAM Manchester University
- Criminal justice mental health team / police partnership / probation / mentally vulnerable offender panel / multi-agency public protection arrangements
- Nicola Lamb, mental health employment worker, Tameside and Glossop early intervention team
- Stockport EPMA (electronic prescribing and medicines sdministration) pilot ward managers
- Tameside and Glossop SCM (structured clinical managament) older adult team and working age team
Finalists:
- Abhinav Kokilagadda, specialist physiotherapist for Stockport learning disability service, physiotherapy clinical lead, and team manager
- David Hill, peer support worker, community rehabilitation team
- Pat Humphries, care co-ordinator, Stockport home treatment team
Runners up:
- Cambeck Close
- Tameside and Glossop home intervention team
Shortlisted:
- Abida Akther, high intensity cognitive behavioural therapist, NHS Oldham talking therapies.
- Alison Worsley and the Tameside and Glossop older people's community mental health team
- Joanne Gisbourne, high intensity therapist, NHS Bury talking therapies
- Dr Sarmad Nadeem, consultant psychiatrist, associate medical director-north network and clinical lead for community transformation
Finalists:
- Dr Jon Ford, doctor at The Meadows, Stockport
- Emma Cooper, physiotherapy assistant, Stockport learning disability service
- Lisa Walmsley, deputy ward manager, Summers ward, Tameside
Runners up:
- Dr. Kay Harvey, CAMHS consultant psychiatrist
- Sarah Martin, communications officer, communications and design team
Shortlisted:
- Coleen Kirby, mental health skills facilitator, education and workforce development team
- Cyrlene Harewood, nursing assistant, Rowan ward
- Denise Wild, receptionist and house keeper, Trust HQ
- Donna Edgely, senior manager Bury community mental health services, senior and strategic operational lead for Bury
- Ian Duncan, team leader, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale mental health support team
- Matt Meredith, discharge co-ordinator, Tameside patient flow team
- Zoe Hesketh, link worker, Oldham structured clinical management team
Finalists:
- Chloe Brown, nurse and assistant ward manager, Woodbank psychiatric intensive care unit
- Living well services – Bury, Oldham, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside and Glossop
- Lucy Smith, Tameside mental health liaison team
Runners up:
- Dan Beresford and Robert Baker, Tameside involvement team
- Hayley McLellan, clinical services manager, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale
Shortlisted:
- Coleen Kirby, learning and development team
- Electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) team
- Harriet Brotherton, Bevan Place
- Holly Jones, Stockport secondary care psychological therapies service
- Matthew Hall, Bury pain psychological medicine service
- Oldham adult learning disability team
- Saira Ahmed, clinical pharmacist, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale
Finalists:
- Afolabi Ojosu, Oak ward, Oldham
- Daniel Beresford and Robert Baker, Tameside involvement team
- Farrah Atta, Romanah Beg, Penny Brand, NHS Bury talking therapies
Runners up:
- Dr Sadie Rodell, clinical psychologist, young people’s mental health research team
- Prospect Place management team
Shortlisted:
- Aine McCarron-Shipman, NHS Oldham talking therapies
- Alex Brewis, Radcliffe Place
- Beth Selway, Tameside mental health support team
- Reece Clayton, mental health liaison, Tameside
- Sharon Hardy, mental health nurse, Tameside
- Young people's mental health research centre (trustwide)
Finalists:
- Jo Jackson, manager, Tatton unit, Tameside
- Stephanie Daye, deputy manager, Stockport older people's community mental health team
- Vanessa Moreland, manager, Woodbank psychiatric intensive care unit
Runners up:
- Danielle Lord, manager of mental health response vehicle, mental health urgent triage service and British Transport Police joint response vehicle and Lisa Warrender, manager of NHS 111 mental health, helpline team and interim peripatetic crisis team
- Faye Kirk, manager, Bury mental health support team
Shortlisted:
- Dr Hossam Marey, consultant psychologist, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale
- Dr Miranda Budd, associate director of psychological therapies, Bury
- Joanne Houghton, team manager, Tameside older persons structured clinical management team
- Kelly Bowden, head of nursing
- Kerry Moyles, manager, Summers ward, Tameside
- Sam Noble, service manager, Bury
- Steven Toft, admin manager, education and workforce development
Finalists:
- Jessica Rimmer, Tameside and Glossop older people's community mental health team
- Lindsay Coupe, Rosewood ward, Stockport
- Sally Sutheran, clinical psychologist, parent infant mental health service
Runners up:
- Elizabeth Knott, Bury child and adolescent mental health service
- Olivia Hinchcliffe, Cedars ward, Oldham
Shortlisted:
- Amanda Morgan, research and innovation team
- James Burke, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale mental health support team
- Lauren Davies, mental health liaison, tameside
- Lucy Carr, research fellow, young people's mental health research centre
- Minara Shah, Cedars ward, Oldham
- Shusha Smith, executive PA
- Tahmina Akthar, Cedars ward, Oldham
Finalists
- Matthew Whitaker, programme manager, strategic delivery hub
- Olivia Greer, nurse, Hope unit
- Sarah Lomax, trainee health psychologist, psychological therapies in physical health team
Runners up:
- George Hayes, estates and facilities quality and compliance manager
- Manisha Parekh, education mental health practitioner, Bury mental health support team
Shortlisted:
- Alyssa Fortune, nursing associate, Hope unit
- Katrina Dore, nursing associate, Oldham
- Leanne Hopwood, Bury structured clinical management team manager and link worker
- Phil Nash, peer support worker, Tameside and Glossop older adult structured clinical management team
- Phoebe Hall, nursing associate, Stockport
- Stephanie Daye, deputy manager, Stockport older people's community mental health team
- Wes Hughes, digital lead technician, pharmacy electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) team
Finalists:
- Cedars ward, Oldham
- Community eating disorder team, north and south
- Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale mental health support team
Runners up:
- Rosewood Ward, Stockport
- Tameside older people’s community mental health team
Shortlisted:
- Bury home intensive treatment service
- Community rehabilitation team
- Estates and facilities teams
- Lead provider collaborative
- Rochdale early intervention team
- Tameside and Glossop older people's structured clinical management team
- Transport team