2022 Health & Social Care Bursary awarded

Friday 18 November 2022

The 2022 annual Insurance Corporation Health & Social Care Bursary has been awarded to Nicola Cross and Hayley Bearman, who will receive £2,500 towards their project ‘Step Forward’.

Their initiative aims to encourage patients discharged from hospital to be motivated to become more mobile by the use of a pedometer.

The scheme will monitor service user mobility levels through steps taken and track progress, providing valuable feedback to both the patient and HSC.

Ms Cross explained: "When people get home from hospital it is back to where life is and it is important that we are there to help them get back to doing what they were doing before. The scheme will be important to our patients as it will show them see how much progress they are making."

The runner up award was presented to Kelly Marquis for her ‘Falls Prevention and Management’ project that aims to provide emergency lifting equipment to Community Services, to improve the efficiencies of patient care and costs and avoiding prolonged issues resultant from long-lie injuries. 

Pictured: The winners, runners up and judges of the 2022 Insurance Corporation Health & Social Care Bursary, with the Bailiff, Richard McMahon, and the President of the Committee for Health & Social Care, Deputy Al Brouard.

The annual Insurance Corporation Health & Social Care Bursary is the only awards scheme in the Bailiwick promoting and celebrating health and wellbeing in the Bailiwick. It's been running for more than 30 years.

Michelle Steele, HR & PR Executive at Insurance Corporation explained: "This year it was not an easy task to shortlist the impressive applications, but earlier this month I was delighted to be part of the panel of judges from HSC and Insurance Corporation hearing inspirational presentations from each of the four finalists, finding out more about their ideas and how they envisioned they would help patients, families and the community in the future."

The other finalists, who were also highly commended, were Kitty Stewart and Nina Heckelmann for their pilot scheme which aims to assist adults with learning difficulties and autism in managing expectations of future scenarios, through the creation of a series of ‘Accessible Service Information Videos’; and Nick Davison whose project, ‘This is MY voice’ aims to record and preserve the voices of service users digitally, when injury or diseases had the potential to take them away.

Matt Jones, Director of Operations at HSC said: "The Insurance Corporation Bursary Scheme which has operated since 1991 makes a real difference to our staff and the work they deliver for our community across health and social care. The award drives innovation and directly supports our commitment to continually challenge and transform our services. The greatest challenge we have is choosing a winner from the many quality applications we receive each year. All applicants have fully embraced the ethos of the Partnership of Purpose and I would like to thank both our staff and friends at the Insurance Corporation for their engagement and support of this important initiative."

Pictured top: Nicola Cross and Hayley Bearman.