A team at the Crann Centre in Ovens has received a prestigious award at the British Journal of Nursing (BJN) awards, which were held in London recently.<\/p>\n
The Crann Centre continence team was named continence nurse of the year for 2026 by the BJN.<\/p>\n
The awards, which are open to nominations across Ireland and the UK, celebrate excellence in research and practice, while recognising outstanding achievements across the nursing community.<\/p>\n
The continence team at Crann provides Ireland’s only nurse-led, community-based specialist continence clinic for children, adults, and families living with neurophysical disabilities, with a focus on neurogenic care.<\/p>\n
The team also provides dedicated training courses for healthcare professionals including public health nurses and special needs assistants in schools, covering clean intermittent catheterisation, trans-anal irrigation training and disability awareness, with more than 450 professionals trained in the last five years.<\/p>\n
Crann’s head of services, Eimear Daly, said the award’s recognition highlighted the team\u2019s commitment to supporting client families, promoting best practice, and delivering high quality continence care.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Huge congratulations to our incredible colleagues Caroline Buckley and Edel Hill \u2014 we are so proud,” she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It also speaks to Crann\u2019s dedication to providing a service to families living with neuro-physical disabilities ensuring that continence care is accessible, timely, and responsive to their needs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It also ensures that people do not face barriers that impact on their day-to-day lives and delivers improved health and wellbeing outcomes, increased participation and feelings of empowerment.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Crann Centre continues to see increasing demand, welcoming 234 additional families in 2025, a 37% growth on the previous year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Crann\u2019s story began in 2013 when its founder, Kate Jarvey, witnessed a high number of children with spina bifida who were poorly served in her local area of Cork.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This compelled her to attend hospital appointments and spend time with families to observe and listen to their experiences and challenges.<\/p>\n
Since then, Crann has supported more than 900 families living with neurophysical disabilities across Cork and the wider Munster region.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Its innovative 2Generation model of care provides whole family support, recognising that disability impacts the fabric of the family.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Through six key service themes, supported by a dedicated client liaison team, each family receives coordinated, personalised wraparound care.<\/p>\n
The BJN is the leading clinical nursing journal written by nurses for nurses from the UK and around the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A team at the Crann Centre in Ovens has received a prestigious award at the British Journal of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-355163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}