Award Categories

Time To Shine reflects the excellent work happening across the organisation help us achieve our vision and goals.

We want to hear how you and your teams have taken on the 7 Commitments and made a difference to the way we work.

Our 7 commitments for 2023-2024 and the respective categories for Time To Shine

Our assets include everything from our buildings to ultrasounds, CT scanners and robotics and the IT equipment we need to fulfil our roles.

How has your team helped to maximise the value of our things for patients, staff and the organisation as a whole?

Patients coming into hospital must be able to receive care safely. Reducing the risk of infection could include things like making sure we properly use medication and invasive devices, and following the essentials of infection prevention and control.

How has your team helped to ensure that our patients have no greater risk of harm from infection while in hospital?

Retaining staff is incredibly important to ensure that we maintain safe staffing levels, knowledge and experience which is critical to delivering the best possible care.

How has your team helped to make LTHT the best place to work and encourage staff to want to continue working here?

We all need to take responsibility for achieving financial sustainability by reducing our outgoings, improving patient flow by working with partner organisations and identifying ‘waste’ in everything we do.

How has your team helped to deliver a sustainable surplus and become the most efficient hospital in the country?

Providing excellent patient care includes reducing delays patients face during admission or discharge from hospital, ensuring we are doing the best by our patients and not exposing them to unnecessary harm.

How has your team helped to ensure patients are only in hospital for as long as clinically necessary?

We want to make sure all patients are able to access the care they need when they need it by reducing waiting times and improving our services.

How has your team helped to ensure all patients receive timely, effective, high-quality care?

It is well documented that research active organisations have better patient outcomes, and we aim to have all our patients able to take part in research.

How has your team helped to build a culture of research and innovation by making R&I visible and accessible?

Unsung Hero Awards

Working in the NHS can be really difficult, and it’s often our colleagues that help us through. The Unsung Hero awards is an opportunity to say thank you to those people who make coming to work that little bit easier and make a real difference to their team and the people we serve.

Rising Star Award

Joining the NHS is the first step to an amazing career. We want to celebrate the colleagues who are our rising stars and future workforce of LTHT.

This award is for colleagues who have started working at LTHT in the last two years and have already made their mark. (This doesn’t have to be their first role in the NHS)