Excellence 2026
We held Excellence 2026 on Thursday 14 May. Through our awards we celebrate and recognise the difference that individuals and teams – both clinical and non-clinical – make to the lives of local people.
Our 2026 winners
Individual winners
- Cheryl Haigh, recovery and wellbeing advisor, Barnsley
- Sarah Armer, Trustwide professional lead for dietetics
- Mel Roberts-Richardson, children’s therapy assistant, Kendray Hospital
- Scott Martin, facilities operative, Kendray Hospital, Barnsley
- Kulthum Aswat, support to recovery worker, North Kirklees early intervention in psychosis
- Marie Burnham, chair
Team winners
- Mental health and forensic inpatient speech and language therapy team, ‘Improving access to speech and language therapy in inpatient areas’
- Creative Minds, Arvon, Basement Recovery Project, Safe Welcome After Prison and Youth Justice Service, ‘Writing for change – developing a creative wellbeing toolkit for recovery’
- Carers’ support, equality and involvement team, ‘Carers’ therapeutic fund – small grants, big impact’
- Trustwide facilities team, ‘Quality improvement (QI) – inpatient food waste project’
- Trustwide creativity and health team, ‘The Create & Bloom creative health app’
- Barnsley community frailty clinic, ‘Developing an efficient and supportive community-based frailty clinic’
- Forensic inpatient service carers’ involvement, ‘Carers’ voices matter to us’
Find out more
Read more about all our finalists in our 2026 brochure, or hear from our team finalists on our YouTube channel.
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