In a recent on-line poll to find the  country's best healthcare modernisers at the forefront of the digital revolution, our Jackie Murphy topped the lot.

She won the Chief Nurse category in the Digital Health Awards 2018 and Mandy Griffin collected her award on her behalf as Jackie was on holiday - and handed it over atTrust HQ at HRI.

Jackie won the award for her exemplary work around our digital transformation and EPR introduction both here at CHFT and at our partner Bradford Teaching Hospitals simultaneously. 

She was nominated by Alistair Morris, our paediatrician who headed up the clinical EPR side.

She thanked  everyone at the Trust  for resilience during the tough times and especially Alistair and Mandy for their collective skills producing a winning formula.

She said: " I am thrilled to receive this award on behalf of CHFT. It reflects that the Trust has developed leaders to ensure we exemplify digital healthcare to continue to modernise and transform.  I am excited now to go beyond digitising the patients record to  help lead us to  move  towards  developing to an integrated  health and social care record.

"I’m also keen to ensure we are able  to use the system to glean meaningful insights and intelligence from data  which will ultimately improve safety, quality and experience. The CNIO role has enabled me to develop new leadership skills and enhance others that I believe only this experience would have given me .

"I have had the chance to work with partners in delivering the EPR and widened my remit beyond nursing. Everybody who knows me will tell you I’m not a technical whizz but working collaboratively  as a clinical lead with fantastic  technical support enabled  our collective success.

" All my colleagues at CHFT were engaged in the  development and implementation  of EPR and even when there were tough times  they remained resilient and solution focused.  Special thanks needs to go to Alistair Morris and Mandy Griffin  as I believe our collective skills and qualities were a winning formula."

Mandy, said she could "write a book" about Jackie's contribution.  " Jackie's nursing background and leadership style quickly became an asset to the project as she engaged with the nursing workforce and beyond to guide them through the biggest transformation to their daily workflow they had or would ever experience. The impact she had and the contributions she made particularly around the training and engagement of all our 5000+ staff was significant to the success of the project and it didn’t stop there, she unselfishly ensured Bradford took all the learning from the CHFT go-live to see them deliver an their go-live back in September 2017.

"She continued to guide both Trusts through the transition to stabilisation.  “You could write a book” but without a doubt she was a deserving winner of the Digital Health CNIO of the year award. After the short list was announced, her story went out to all NHS Network colleagues across the UK who were able to vote for their winner which meant she didn’t just have our she vote! what an amazing achievement."    

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Jackie is also the latest colleague to feature in our NHS70 year-long campaign. Here's her answers...

How long have you worked in the NHS and what is your role, what is your favourite bit?

I’ve worked in the NHS for the last 35 years and I guess like most people I’d say making a difference to patient care and experience is most important to me, but I’d also say that the diversity of my role and working alongside great colleagues is really important to me.

What makes the NHS special to you?

I think working in the NHS and using it means it’s majored in my life. The NHS is my employer, it’s the place I met my husband a lot of my friends as well as the organisation that cared for me whilst having my children,  helped me to prevent me becoming unwell by such things as immunisation and screening, cared for my  children through knocks, scrapes and fractures  , looked after many family members through illness and provided dignified death to some also.

What birthday present would give it? 

A couple of pressies spring to mind, an exemplary social care system and a fully functioning highly developed joint health and social care electronic record.

** We're into the second half of the year so if you want to add your wishes to the Big Birthday year answer the questions -as Jackie did - and email them to chft@cht.nhs.uk and we'll do the rest.