And the winner is the Erskine ANP team!

The Erskine Advance Nurse Practitioners, Laura MacDonald and Kim Barron, were one of the many nursing teams from around the United Kingdom nominated for an award in The Burdett Nursing Awards 2023. 

The Awards were created to reward nursing teams for their sustained commitment to providing high-quality care. 

Only a select few were shortlisted and the Erskine ANP team was amongst them.

The category in which the Erskine team was nominated was Older People Nursing Award.

The criteria for the award detailed that the winners would not only be outstanding but would be a team that had encouraged and disseminated innovative evidence-based practice impacting the health and social care outcomes for older people.  Although frailty and ageing are not necessarily synonymous, frailty is becoming more widespread within our ageing population.  Many interventions that can slow its progression and mitigate its effects are rooted in the provision of holistic, person-centred care. 

Laura and Pauline, standing in for Kim, travelled down to London to the awards ceremony, in the prestigious Waldorf Hotel.  Both Laura and Pauline were delighted to report back to Kim that the Erskine Team had been announced winners.

Erskine Director of Care Derek Barron said: “This award is testament to the hard work and dedication of Laura and Kim in developing innovative and robust practices to the benefit of those cared for at Erskine. We are also very proud that our ANP team's practices have been recognised by The Burdett Trust for Nursing Awards. The work they do supports the staff across Erskine to daily deliver excellence in care and demonstrates the dynamic environment that social care actually is."

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