Here's our Freedom to Speak Up Guardian, Andrea Gillespie. She's just one of our finalists in this year's CHuFT Awards, and will be celebrating with colleagues and Golden Ticket winners on Thursday, 2nd November.

It was a mammoth judging process for our shortlisting teams to complete. They had a record-breaking 339 nominations to judge in total. But they got through it, and our finalists were revealed exclusively on last week's CHFT Live. You can see them below.

Next steps for our finalists and Golden Ticket winners

• Finalists - please check your inboxes for an email from Stevie Cheesman. It includes information about photography drop-in sessions today and on Wednesday at Old Acre Mills, with guidance on sending your own image, too
• Invites will be with you soon. Please make your food choices as soon as you can
• For individual finalists, we’d prefer your plus one to be a colleague if at all possible so they can soak up the atmosphere, but if you have any questions please email engagementteam@cht.nhs.uk
• Sadly we don't have enough room for a plus one for Golden Ticket winners

Huge congratulations to all our nominees - celebrating the work we all do is as important as any of our Must Dos.

Category: Driving Digital Innovation and Change (new for 2023)

• Endoscopy Team
• Radiology AI Team
• eCDR Project Team
• Oliver Hutchinson
• ePMA Team

Category: Go See

• Clinical Site Team - Patient Flow
• AHP Workforce & Education Team
• Jennifer Clark
• Karen Farrar
• Operating Services Transformation and Modernisation Team

Category: Must Dos

• Asif Ahmed
• Surgical Assessment Unit
• Arley Byrne
• Critical Care Team
• Thomas Whittle

Category: One Culture of Care

• Rapid Diagnostic (non-site specific team)
• Andrea Marren
• Stevie O'Connell
• Lindsay Short
• Rosaleen Sunderland

Category: Putting People First

• Mohammed Allah-Ditta
• Victoria Evans
• Andrea Gillespie
• Maternity Health Advisor Team
• Pauline North

Category: Rising Apprentice

• Katie Collins
• Harley Ingham
• Megan Regan
• Rachel Stirk
• Phoebe Wells

Category: Work Together Get Results

• Andrea Jimenez
• Patient Cancer Pathway Team
• ED Transition Team
• The Pre-Child Bereavement Project
• Cancer Nurse Specialist Team