NHS England Community Nursing Research Awards 2022

The NHS England Community Nursing Research Awards recognise excellence in community nursing research.

On 6 December 2022, the year's awards were presented at a ceremony hosted by the School of Health & Psychological Sciences at City, University of London in collaboration with the International Collaboration of Community Health Nursing Research (ICCHNR).

The Awards ceremony preceded the delivery of the 3rd Lisbeth Hockey Memorial Lecture by Professor Sally Kendall.

Professor Kendall also led the award proceedings which included video presentations from the four NHS England Community Nursing Research Award winners, and three further awardees winning Highly Commended Awards for their research.

Watch video presentations from the NHS England Community Nursing Research Award winners on the ICCHNR website.

The NHS England Community Nursing Research Awards 2022 winners are:

Dr Ben Bowers

Community Palliative Care Nurse and Wellcome Post-Doctoral Fellow

The National Institute for Health Research School for Primary Care Research NIHR SPCR

‘Is having access to injectable anticipatory medications for symptom control at the end of life reassuring?’

Anca Manea

Community and Learning Disabilities Nurse

Norwich Community Nursing Team, Norfolk

‘Prenatal Pathway for individuals with Learning Difficulties’

Eleanor Willis

Children’s Complex Care Nurse Specialist

East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

‘Care and Decision Making in Children’s Complex Health: What Matters Most to Mothers.’

Pretty Manyimo

Specialist Palliative Nurse

Clinical Research Associate

Leicester Partnership NHS Trust

‘Experiences of community nurses caring for patients form ethnic minority background at end of life.’

Highly Commended Awards 2022

The Highly Commended Research Award winners are:

Rowan Waring

Specialist Practitioner District Nurse; Deputy team leader Southey team

Patient & Public Involvement Research Coordinator for Combined Community & Acute Care Group.

‘What Are the Challenges and Opportunities to Adopting Health Coaching Techniques in Community Nursing?’

Alis Rasul

Project Lead – Community Engagement & Equality and Inclusion in Service Delivery Strategy team

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

‘Equity in Healthcare: Developing A Cultural Safety Approach’.

Hannah Brady Sawant

Clinical Research Fellow

Specialist Community Practitioner (District Nursing), Independent and Supplementary Prescriber, Leeds Long Covid Community Rehabilitation Service

‘A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of A Virtual Rehabilitation Program for Self-Management in Post COVID-19 Syndrome (Long COVID)’.

Reflecting on the lecture and award ceremony, Professor Debra Salmon, Dean of the School of Health & Psychological Sciences, said:

I was delighted to attend such an inspiring event. This was both in relation to the innovative and impactful research outlined by the award winners and Professor Kendall’s moving story of her journey through breast cancer during Covid. Together these accounts demonstrate the crucial role community nurses play as practitioners, researchers and patients in making sure that the needs of patients, their families and communities are at the heart of research, policy and practice.

Find out more

Read about the 3rd Lisbeth Hockey Memory Lecture hosted at City, University of London.

Visit the International Collaboration for Community Health Nursing Research website.

Visit the webpage of the Department of Nursing, School of Health & Psychological Sciences, City, University of London.