UK Awards for Excellence in Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation

The 2021 Excellence Awards in Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation took place on Wednesday 24th February at the joint NHSBT and British Transplant Society Congress. The congress brings together experts in the fields of donation and transplantation to meet, share knowledge, innovation and celebrate success. 

The awards celebrate excellence in all areas of donation and transplantation, this year there were over 150 nominations celebrating the success of colleagues up and down the country from both inside and outside of NHSBT.

Winners

The 2021 winners in each category were as follows:

• Exceptional Organ Donation Services Team - London Organ Donation Services Team 
• Excellence in Organ Retrieval - Great Ormond Street Hospital Cardiac Transplant Team and Royal Papworth Hospital NORS Team
• Excellence in Transplantation - Matthew Cramp
• Excellence in Delivering Patient Care - Atul Bagul
• Excellence in Innovation or Research - Lisa Mumford
• Excellence in Education - Jennifer Hobbs
• Exceptional Clinical Lead for Organ Donation - Claire Tordoff
• Exceptional Volunteer - Sarah Jones
• Special Award for an exceptional individual during the COVID Pandemic - Ines Ushiro-Lumb

Those highly commended in each category were as follows:

• Exceptional Organ Donation Services Team - Legislation Change Programme Team / Scotland Organ Donation Services Team / NHSBT Statistics Team
• Excellence in Organ Retrieval - Samuel Gallagher / Ahmed Sherif
• Excellence in Transplantation - Northern Ireland Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics Lab Team & Belfast City Hospital Renal Transplant Team / Ann Ramsey
• Excellence in Delivering Patient Care - West of Scotland Transplant Nursing Team / UHB Renal Transplant Nurse Specialists, Co-ordinators, and Pharmacist / Richard Quigley
• Excellence in Innovation or Research - David Briggs / Simon Knight / The Joint Innovation Fund Implementation Board (DCD) Heart
• Excellence in Education - Sanjay Sinha / Cathy Miller / Eddie Davies
• Exceptional Clinical Lead for Organ Donation - Angus (Gus) Vincent / Simon Flood
• Exceptional Volunteer - Hilaria Asumu / Mahmud Nawaz / Alan Hyde
• Special Award for an exceptional individual during the COVID Pandemic - Sarah Crosby / Sarah Lundie

Judging panel

Nominations for the award were judged by a panel of clinicians, donor family, patient and lay representatives:

• John Forsythe: NHS Blood and Transplant Medical Director for Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation
• Lisa Burnapp: British Transplantation Society Vice President
• Stephen Webb: Intensive Care Society President Elect
• Karen Piotr: Donor Family Advisory Group
• Dela Idowu: Patient representative
• Michelle Hemmings: Patient representative
• Craig Jones: Lay member
• Gurch Randhawa: Professor of Diversity in Public Health & Director, Institute for Health Research