Health Care Award Winners 2025
We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2025 Healthcare Support Worker Awards
The awards, organised by the Careers Team at Joined Up Care Derbyshire, are designed to celebrate the fantastic work carried out by healthcare, care and all support workers across the Derbyshire system. In recognition of National Healthcare Support Worker Day on 23rd November, these awards celebrate the incredible work of our unregistered workforce.
Nominations to recognise these vital roles were invited from care homes, GP practices, the community and hospital settings, anywhere in Derby and Derbyshire.
We would like to congratulate all who were nominated and all who triumphed in the awards – your work is invaluable and appreciated by everyone across the sector.
The category winners are highlighted in the document below.
In some categories, nominated finalists will also receive a certificate. They were:
New to Care
Ruby Smith – High Peak Carers
Lifetime Achievement
Angela Hare – Chesterfield Royal Hospital
Unsung Hero
Kerry Smedley – Chesterfield Royal Hospital
Tina Malpass – University Hospitals of Derby & Burton
Going the Extra Mile
Heather Maurice-Smith – Ashgate Hospice
Elizabeth Taylor – Care Relief Team, Chesterfield
