North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust starred in the NAHS (National Association for Healthcare Security) awards night that rounded off the membership body’s gathering at the University of Birmingham.
The Edmonton, London-based trust won in the innovation category (pictured), while Alexander Kuye was highly commended in the manager category; and North Middlesex was also highly commended in the ‘violence prevention and reduction’ category. The other winners were: in the security officer category, highly commended, Amelia Payet, of Royal Sussex County Hospital, in Brighton; and winner, Leston Scafe, of Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust. Winner of the manager category was Yameen Choudhry, of Carlisle Support Services. Carlisle also won in the team category – for Lister Hospital, Stevenage; highly commended was the team at Kettering General Hospital. Highly commended in the innovation category was XTAG Medical for their baby tagging product. Winner for violence prevention was Northumbria Healthcare Facilities Management. Lorena Migdan of South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust was named ‘women role model’, and Kim Hudson of University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust was highly commended.
NAHS chairman Roger Ringham announced that the nominations for the 2025 awards were open: visit www.nahs.org.uk/nahs-awards. He wound up the night with his chairman’s award, that went to the association’s longest-serving executive, who stood down earlier this year; Diane Lee. Sponsor of the awards was the workplace violence reduction training company Maybo, one of the event exhibitors; Simon Whitehorn of Maybo did the presenting.
Compere for the awards was one of the judges, the former senior counter-terror cop now consultant Nick Aldworth, who told the black-tie event it had been ‘really hard’ to select winners and runners-up. He added: “Every one is clearly a person or a team at the tip of their game, and delivering amazing service inside part of this amazing organisation that is the National Health Service.”
Nominees were (by category): officer, Valentine Adjetey, Mahmud Mahamed and Adbulfatah Ali, and Nana Adu, and Eric Busia, Oyetunde Oyewole and Chabane Nekili, North Middlesex; Ryan Ashton, Barnsley; Idid Barry, and Irina Ostafi, Guy’s and St Thomas’s; Carl Beresford, Equans; Antero Fernandes, GSTS; Harry Fitzwilliams, Great Western; Younes Ghouloul, Medirest Compass Group (UK and Ireland); and Luca Jones, University Hospital of Leicester. Manager: Fahad Amir, and Mobeen Hussain, Carlisle Support Services; Alvin Bowyer, Secro Health; Lisa Corbridge, Barnsley. Team: Alder Hey, East and North Herts, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and Walsall Manor – each Carlisle Support Services; Great Western, Serco Health; Homerton, north London, and Kingston upon Thames, ISS Security; Peterborough City Hospital, Compass Group; North Middlesex, Nottingham University Hospital, Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital; and University Hospitals Leicester. Innovation: WatchWay – Barnsley; and Guy’s and St Thomas’s. Violence reduction: Barnsley. Women role model: Charlotte Davison, GSTS; and Michelle Thiel, North Middlesex.
Among those attending were one of the judges, Ollie Curran of University College London (UCL), in the final months of his two-year term as chair of the university security managers’ association Aucso; and Martyn’s Law campaigners Figen and Stuart Murray.
More in the January edition of Professional Security Magazine.
