QuDoS in MS Awards. Blowing Your Trumpet

The MS TrustQuDos Awards 2016

Nominate outstanding MS health professionals for the QuDoS in MS Awards highlighting innovation and excellence in MS management and service delivery

Calling all MS health professionals: enter or nominate colleagues for the 2016 QuDos in MS awards!


The MS Trust is looking to celebrate the work of the MS health professionals that have delivered outstanding, innovative care for people affected by MS. This means MS specialist nurses, allied health professionals (such as physiotherapists and occupational therapists), neurologists and multidisciplinary teams – but also any health professionals that work with or deliver services for people with MS, including GPs, pharmacists and commissioners.

The deadline for nominations is 5pm 12 September. To see how to enter visit qudos-ms.com.(link is external) 

You may nominate/enter as many categories as you wish.

Who can enter?

Entries/nominations are invited from:

• MS specialist nurses
• Other nurses working in MS
• Allied health professionals, including physiotherapists and occupational therapists
• Neurologists – specialist registrars and consultants
• Pharmacists
• GPs
• District nurses, practice nurses, community matrons
• Healthcare professionals working in the community, a hospital or primary care setting, a nursing or care home or a rehabilitation or palliative care setting.
Last Years Winners were

Outstanding MS specialist nurse

Sian Locke, Helen Durham Centre, Cardiff and Vale Health Board, University Hospital of Wales

Liz Watson, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Outstanding allied health professional working in MS

Wendy Hendrie, Norwich MS Centre

Outstanding neurologist in MS treatment

Michael Douglas, Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust

Multidisciplinary team of the year

Tayside and North East Fife MS Service

Innovation in practice: Pathway redesign to promote seamless services between hospital and community

Derek Laidler and Andrea James, NHS Highland and Lorn and Oban Healthy Options

Information in practice: Outstanding use of information and shared decision making in MS care

PML risk communication information resource, Gavin Giovannoni, Queen Mary University of London and Bart’s Health NHS Trust

Evidence in practice: Using audit, evaluation or research to improve user experience/outcomes of care

Multiple Sclerosis Aqua Research Team (MSART), University of Brighton and Burrswood Hospital

Judges’ Special Award

Family Focused Support Team, Oxford Centre for Enablement, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Christine Singleton, specialist physiotherapist, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust



MS Trust 2016 Conference 6-7 November 2016

The MS Trust conference is when the MS health professional community comes together to learn, share expertise and focus on improving care for pwMS.

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