06 August 2024 –
We are delighted to announce that several members of Team King’s have been recognised at the Black Healthcare Awards.
Congratulations to Tosan Okubule-Kotey, Head of Nursing for Theatres and Anaesthetics; Roseline Agyekum, Community Kidney Nurse Researcher; and Felicia Kwaku OBE, Associate Director of Nursing, on winning in the Black Healthcare Awards.
We also extend our congratulations to Ms Rantimi Ayodele, Site Medical Director for the PRUH and South Sites and Deputy Chief Medical Officer; and Fester Ike, Clinical Nurse Specialist for Adult Haemoglobinopathies on being shortlisted for the Livingbridge Leadership & Health Clinical Leader Award, and for the Dame Elizabeth Anionwu Award for Sickle Cell Nursing, respectively.
The Black Healthcare Awards, hosted by the Caribbean & African Health Network (CAHN), celebrate Black health and care workers who have established themselves as outstanding in their practice. This year’s awards were the first to focus solely on Black healthcare professionals of the Caribbean or African diaspora.
• Tosan Okubule-Kotey won the Nurse of the Year. On winning she said: “I am very proud to have won this prestigious award.
“It is a huge honour and I am extremely thankful for my colleagues who nominated me. This win is the result of a team effort and I am proud of the other members of Team King’s who also won and were shortlisted.”
Nurse of the Year celebrates the nurse who best demonstrates leadership, role modelling and inspirational practice in times of challenge, whilst improving the quality of care for users of their services.
• Roseline Agyekum won the Advanced Nurse and Specialist Nurse Practitioner of the Year Award for her work with the HIDDEN CKD project, which provides community kidney screening to people from African and African-Caribbean backgrounds to reduce kidney health inequalities within the ethnic community.
Through the HIDDEN CKD project, over 1,500 people have taken part and Roseline has referred 10 people for follow-up investigations with their GP to confirm their kidney health. Roseline has identified eight people with early-stage chronic kidney disease (CKD) and three people with late-stage CKD.
Over the past 18 months, Roseline has supported 450 people with personalised goals and plans to proactively self-manage their long-term conditions, and subsequent future kidney health outcomes.
• Felicia Kwaku OBE won the Nurse Leader of the Year Award, which recognises nurse leaders as positive role models that work at a high-level of leadership to create change. Felicia had led a national strategic advisory group advising the Chief Nursing and Chief Midwifery Officers of England.
Felicia said of her success: “It is an honour to win this award and I am very proud of this achievement.
“It is a privilege to work as a nurse and I am thankful that I also work with an amazing team at King’s, who make these award wins possible.”
Congratulations and well done to all members of Team King’s on their success.