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<\/p>\nA nursing lecturer who has Harry Potter characters named after her has won the lifetime achievement award at this year\u2019s Nursing Times Awards.<\/p>\n
Professor Tonks Fawcett took home the coveted Chief Nursing Officers\u2019 Award for Lifetime Achievement during the ceremony tonight held in London.<\/p>\n
\u201cNurses and other clinicians continue to rise to the many challenges\u201d<\/p>\n
Steve Ford<\/p>\n
Alongside her many academic achievements, Professor Fawcett inspired the characters Nymphadora Tonks and S. Fawcett in the Harry Potter series.<\/p>\n
Qualifying as an adult nurse in 1976, Professor Fawcett has spent most of her career at the University of Edinburgh, progressing from clinical tutor to professor over four decades.<\/p>\n
She was among 26 award winners celebrated tonight at the Nursing Times Awards 2026.<\/p>\n
Susie Lagrata, advanced headache nurse practitioner and lead nurse from University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, was named Nurse of the Year.<\/p>\n
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Susie Lagrata<\/p>\n
Judges described her as an inspirational nursing leader who has transformed her specialist area locally, nationally and internationally through pioneering nurse-led services, workforce development and clinical innovation.<\/p>\n
Team of the Year went to Barts Health\u00a0NHS Trust\u2019s adult critical care transfer service, whose work impressed the judges so much that they wanted to see it expanded nationally.<\/p>\n
Other winners included Nikola Szymanska, a nurse at social care provider HC-One, who received the Ann Shuttleworth Rising Star Award.<\/p>\n
Qualifying in 2022, Ms Szymanska is already innovating and has developed new pathways to boost residents\u2019 nutrition and hydration in a personalised way.<\/p>\n
Judges said Ms Szymanska was a powerful advocate for the value of nursing in social care.<\/p>\n
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Barts Health\u00a0NHS Trust adult critical care transfer service team<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a project that combined nursing and the arts won James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust the award for Clinical Research Nursing.<\/p>\n
Claire Whitehouse, senior nurse for nursing research at the trust, led a project that saw the trust partner with a circus centre to engage groups including people with special education needs and refugees in health research.<\/p>\n
Nursing Times editor Steve Ford said: \u201cCongratulations to all our winners at the 2026 Nursing Times Awards.<\/p>\n
\u201cEach year our judges are impressed, inspired and heartened by the great work being led by nurses and their teams around the UK, and this year is no exception.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe health and social care system is under pressure like never before, but nurses and other clinicians continue to rise to the many challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n
The full list of winners from the Nursing Times Awards 2026 <\/p>\n
Ann Shuttleworth Rising Star Award: Nikola Szymanska \u2014 HC-One
\nCare of Older People: DHU Healthcare \u2014 Community Virtual Ward
\nChildren\u2019s Services: Humber\u00a0Teaching\u00a0NHS Foundation Trust \u2014 Core Needs
\nClinical Research Nursing: James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust \u2014 The Circus Project
\nContinence Promotion and Care: King\u2019s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust \u2014 From Retention to Recovery: A nurse-led continence pathway transforming post-operative spinal care
\nCritical and Emergency Care Nursing: East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust \u2014 The Eco Bed-Space
\nDame Elizabeth Anionwu Award for Inclusivity in Nursing and Midwifery: Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust \u2014 Integrated diabetes and advanced chronic kidney disease clinical and research programme
\nInfection Prevention and Control: South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust \u2014 A-Z app
\nIngrid Fuchs Cancer Nursing Award: South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust \u2014 Nothing About Us Without Us: Co-producing a new model of care for people living with cancer
\nLearning Disabilities Nursing: North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust \u2014 Building the registered nurse for learning disabilities workforce \u2013 T-level student placement initiative
\nMidwife of the Year: Sabrina Fogg \u2014 Liverpool Women\u2019s NHS Foundation Trust
\nNurse Leader of the Year: Sherwin Criseno \u2014 University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
\nNurse of the Year: Susie Lagrata \u2014 University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
\nNursing in Mental Health: Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust \u2014 Efficient perinatal mental health \u2013 a nurse prescriber model
\nNursing in Primary Care: Staffordshire Training Hub \u2014 General practice nurse foundation school
\nNursing in Social Care: NeuroResponse \u2014 Personalised UTI digital care pathway
\nNursing in the Community: Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, University of Bradford and West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board \u2014 Community nursing student-supported service placement
\nPatient Safety Improvement: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust \u2014 Improving patient safety through a trust-wide safeguarding duty hub
\nPublic Health Nursing: Institute of Health Visiting \u2014 Bringing fathers\u2019 mental health into focus
\nSustainability in Nursing and Midwifery: South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust \u2014 Shared wound care \u2013 delivering sustainable, low\u2011carbon wound management
\nTeam of the Year: Barts Health\u00a0NHS Trust \u2014 Adult critical care transfer service
\nTechnology and Data in Nursing: Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust \u2014 The Comfort Tracker
\nThe King\u2019s Award for Integrated Approaches to Care: King\u2019s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust \u2014 Helping hands sensory blood test clinic
\nTheatre and Surgical Nursing: King\u2019s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust \u2014 Enhanced recovery after surgery for neurosurgery
\nChief Nursing Officers\u2019 Award for Lifetime Achievement: Professor Tonks Fawcett \u2014 University of Edinburgh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A nursing lecturer who has Harry Potter characters named after her has won the lifetime achievement award at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-820450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}