National BAME Health & Care Awards 2023 | National BAME Health and Care Awards | 3 March 2023 | TBA

The National BAME Health & Care Awards celebrate BAME staff and networks across British health and social care who are making significant improvements in BAME career development support and forging better healthcare initiatives for their communities.

Awards Categories
• Compassionate and Inclusive Leader
• Ground-breaking Researcher
• Inspiring Diversity and Inclusion Lead
• Clinical AHP Champion
• Clinician of the Year
• Outstanding Contribution to Social Care
• Health and Wellbeing Advocate
• Junior Doctor of the Year
• BAME Nurse of the Year
• BAME Midwife of the Year
• Emergency and Critical Care Healthcare Professional
• Outstanding Achievement of the Year
• Outstanding Corporate Achievement of the Year
• Mental Health Initiative
• Outstanding Technology Contribution
• Community Initiative of the Year
• Lifetime Achievement Award

2022 Winners

BAME Midwife of the Year, sponsored by the Nursing and Midwifery Council
• Rukeya Miah – Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Champion of the Year
• Shumel Rahman – North East Ambulance Service

Inspiring Diversity and Inclusion Lead of the Year
• Sam Ogunkoya – East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT)

Ground-breaking Researcher of the Year
• Benash Nazmeen – Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

Community Initiative of the Year
• Positive Action Project – Northeast Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Mental Health Initiative of the Year
• Dr Akhtar Khan – Hywel Dda University Health Board, Wales

Outstanding Contribution to Social Care
• Sherifat Muhammad-Kamal – Muslimah Education Centre

Workforce Innovator of the Year
• Bisi Soledolu – The Shuri Network

Outstanding Corporate Achievement of the Year
• Jennifer Pearson, Miriam Coffie and Tom Warner – University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, NHS England & NHS Improvement Midlands

Outstanding Achievement of the Year
• See ME First Team – Whittington Health NHS Trust

BAME Nurse of the Year
• Jennifer Pearson – University Hospitals Birmingham

Digital Champion of the Year
• Engagement Diversity and inclusion Team – North East Ambulance Service

Compassionate and Inclusive Leader of the Year
• Marsha Jones – Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Emergency and Critical Healthcare Professional of the Year
• Dr Nida Suri – West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Community Initiative of the Year
• Community Development Outreach Team – Hywel Dda University Health Board Wales

Health and Wellbeing Advocate of the Year
• Dr Ugonna Chukwumaife – NHS & Rehoboth for Families

Outstanding Technology Contribution of the Year
• Maaha Suleiman – CareAlgo

Workforce Innovator of the Year
• Dr Na’eem Ahmed – ChelWest NHS Trust

Outstanding Corporate Achievement of the Year
• Cheryl Samuels – NHS England and NHS Improvement