Windrush 70 awards – nominate your BME colleagues

March 27, 2018

Two weeks before the NHS was launched on 22 June 1948, the former German cruise liner Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury docks carrying 492 passengers from the West Indies, with some of the passengers being the first people to work for the NHS.

In the years that have followed many more people from around the world have come to work in the NHS and as of today people of black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds make up a fifth of the NHS workforce.

Our Trust is taking part in Windrush 70 activities locally and supporting events across Birmingham and The West Midlands.

To celebrate our diverse workforce, NHS England have launched the Windrush 70 awards which will take place on Tuesday 12 June in Manchester and nominations are now open.

The 11 categories listed below will recognise a range of achievements, breakthroughs as well as recognise unsung heroes who under normal circumstances could have been overlooked.

• Clinical excellence for medics
• Clinical excellence for nursing
• Operational service excellence
• Clinical excellence for allied health professionals
• Contribution towards improving health inequalities
• Research & policy development
• Unsung hero
• Rising stars innovation
• BME inspirational leader
• NHS lifetime achievement award
• Top leadership

Nominations can be made by anyone working in the NHS as well as patients, service users and the public.

To register your vote visit the Windrush website.

The closing date for submitting nominations is Friday 13 April.