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Your Healthcare’s Neurodevelopmental Service (NdS) team has won a prestigious national award, and been praised by judges for demonstrating a positive impact on the quality of life for adults with learning disabilities.

Your Healthcare’s Bowel Support Service won the Continence Promotion and Care category of the 2023 Nursing Times Awards, despite competition from several much larger organisations.

Commenting on the service, which helps users and carers to understand and better manage constipation, with the ultimate goal of avoiding hospital admission, the judges said: “This service was created, led and delivered by neurodevelopmental nurses to improve clinical outcomes for adults with intellectual disabilities. This patient centred approach incorporated physical and psychological behavioural outcomes with significant feedback from an array of multi-professional and patient groups demonstrating a positive impact on quality of life.”

Dr Karen Long, frontline service lead, said: “This is a fantastic achievement; our team was on a shortlist of ten, most of whom were much larger organisations. To be praised for our patient-centred approach – while not surprising for a team that genuinely has a deep understanding of the needs of its users, is both rewarding and well deserved. I am absolutely thrilled to see the team recognised in this way.”

Ed Montgomery, managing director, added: “This is a really impressive achievement. For me, the fact that the judges noted that the service was created, led and delivered by nurses is incredibly important. We know the Your Healthcare approach of giving teams the devolved responsibility to manage their own services is unusual in health and social care – but we also know it works for us. This award is a great example of how it works in practice. Congratulations to everyone involved!”

The Nursing Times Awards were announced last night at a ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel in central London.
Nursing Times Awards 2023 - 2023 Winners