The Winners

The winners were announced at our IN PERSON ceremony on the 16th March 2024

All of the nominees and shortlisted candidates are AMAZING, but there can only be 1 winner per category.

Well done to everyone, and thank you for a fantastic PAFTAs

Junior Hero Award

Paediatric Speciality Trainees ST1-4 and other junior doctors at SHO/Tier 1 level

Dr Bridget Kemball

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The Kate Westwood Memorial Senior Hero Award

Paediatric Trainees/SAS/Speciality/Staff Grade and other doctors at registrar level

Dr Jane Baker

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Educational Supervisor Of The Year

Dr Jim Hart

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Junior Nurse

Nursing staff qualified less than 2 years

Courtney Webber

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Nursing Role Model

Becca Laverick

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Nursing Lifetime Achievement Award

Nursing staff who have made truly exceptional contributions througout their careers

Donna Sparkes

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Consultant Hero


Dr Esther Morris

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Non Clinical Staff of the Year


Sarah Tickle

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Healthcare & Nursing Assistant of the Year Award

Sarah Parkes

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The Debbie Eadie Award for Advance Nurse Practice

Sadie Harrison

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MDT Hero Award

Tanya Martin

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Teams of the year

CYPEDS (Cornwall)– Smaller Team
Neonatal Unit (Exeter) – Bigger team

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We are proud of all the nominations we received this year and the winners are just one aspect of the PAFTAs.

When picking the shortlist and winners our committee tries hard to represent and celebrate each unit whilst also being as impartial as possible. We can only base our decisions on the nomination text that was submitted, not the other information we may or may not know about the nominees.

Some hospitals cast far more nominations than others and it impossible for us to fully mitigate the impact of this in our judging process. We are a group of volunteers who are try our best to encourage all hospitals to take part and submit many nominations. We always aim to have representation from multiple professions and hospitals on our panel.


If you feel your hospital wasn’t represented as much this year we warmly invite and urge you to join our committee and help boost the publicity around nominations in your units next year and be involved in the judging process.