Our annual CHuFT Awards are back – and they’re going to be even bigger and better than last year.

It’s going to be an all-round brilliant #TeamCHFT event. We’re encouraging colleagues from right across the Trust to get their thinking caps on and nominate their colleagues and the teams they work with for the brilliant things they do for our patients and each other, every day.

We’ve even added an extra category to cover all the fantastic digital innovations that CHFT is spearheading - Driving Digital Innovation and Change.

We’ll be back at The Arches in Dean Clough, Halifax, on awards night on Thursday 2nd November, and this year we’ll be joined by former Look North presenter Tanya Arnold, insert, who will be our official compere.

This video captures all our fantastic events to celebrate One Culture of Care last year at CHFT, including the 2022 awards night. Who knows – this year you could be there, too.

Laura Jennings from the Respiratory Floor was part of a winning team last year. They won the One Culture of Care category. She said: “We couldn't believe it. We felt so proud to be among the nominees, and then to win - well it was very emotional. Our team continues to go from strength to strength, we are rebuilding after all we've been through the last few years and this award was a big part of that.”

Last year we had more nominations than ever – with almost 300 colleagues submitting a nomination. So, the pressure’s on to do even better in 2023!

Categories and how to nominate

Our categories again reflect what is important to everything we do here at CHFT: One Culture of Care, Putting People First, Work Together Get Results, Must Dos, Go See and Rising Apprentice, plus our new one - Driving Digital Innovation and Change.

Top tip: you can start your nomination and save it - in case you need to go back to it.

Our dedicated awards website is here https://chuft.cht.nhs.uk/

Watch out for all the promotional material - you can also nominate through the intranet banner at the top of the homepage.