Changemaker 2025 On-line Awards Ceremony
Online via ZoomFind out who the winners are for 2024 and launch of the 2025 Changemaker awards
Changemaker Champion 2025
A healthcare professional who has made an outstanding contribution in the treatment of leg and foot conditions.
Together for Change Award 2025
A healthcare team that has worked together to create positive change in the treatment of leg and foot conditions.
People Power Award 2025
A patient or member of the public who’s doing outstanding work to heal their own leg or foot condition or to support someone with a leg or foot condition.
Your hosts for the evening
Dr Leanne Atkin, Vascular Nurse Consultant/Research Fellow, Mid Yorks NHS Trust/University of Huddersfield
Gill Sykes, Advanced Podiatrist, Harrogate and District NHS Trust
2025 Changemaker Champion nominees
- Wendy Dabell, Clinical Nurse Specialist Tissue Viability Nottingham CityCare
- Agnes Collarte, Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse Lead
- Yolande Borthwick, Lymphoedema Specialist
- Jo Holloway, Lower limb specialist nurse for North and West PCN
- Dr. Anuj Purbey, Vaser Liposuction Specialist. Manchester Private Hospital
- Fran Campbell, Clinical Lead in Podiatry and Biomechanics
- Hazel Lewis, Clinical Lead Leg ulcer service
- Bethan White, Nurse
- Ruth Parkinson, Clinical lead specialist wound care team
- Zeniab ‘Lynda’ Ayo, Team lead Lower Limb and Lymphoedema Service Directorate -Acute And Emergency Medicine, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Ashley Pointer, District Nurse Team Leader, FOSS- Inner City and East Locality (ICE), Sirona care & health CIC East Bristol Intermediate Care Centre (EBICC) 7 Summerhill Terrace, St George, Bristol, BS5 8HX
- Ms Julie Rooney / Ms Ruth Walker, Otley Action for Older People
- Martin Fox, Vascular Specialist Podiatrist
- Gemma Davison, Advanced clinical practitioner/Vascular Nurse
- Emma Cowen, Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse
- Rita Donyina, Tissue Viability Nurse
- Emma Cowen, Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse
- Dr Ben Bullen, Lecturer in Podiatric Medicine
- Sharon Kaye, Walpole Leg Ulcer Nurse
- Jane Pappin, CEO of Pop Up Health
- Fiona Ashton, Leg Ulcer Nurse
2025 Changemaker Together for Change Award nominees
- Aline Lopes and Elise Anipa, Tissue Viability Specialist Nurses
- Rachel Sweeney, Lead Tissue Viability Specialist nurse
- Wigan MDFS, Wrightington Wigan and Leigh
- Meanwood Neighbourhood Team (DN’s Danielle Pimperton, Rachel Robb, Karen Long), Leeds Community Healthcare
- The Lower Limb Vascular Service, Acorn Primary Care Centre Accrington
- Jenny Williamson along with with the lymphoedema Team, Wirral university teaching hospital
- Wound Clinic Servcie Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board, Wound Service – CTMUHB – Rebecca Morgan – Project Lead
- Ruth Cargill and team, Dermatology Treatment Centre PRI
- Diane Cheevers & Kelly Nickson, Lymphoedema Specialist Nurses (Oxleas NHS trust)
- Clare Mechen, The Adam Practice – Leg Club Lead
- NHS Pioneer Sussex Wound Healing and Lymphoedema Centres
- Gill Harman, Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist, Bromley Healthcare
- Skin and Wound Assessment Team, Enrolled Nurses at Pop Up Health
- Northumbria Healthcare Tissue Viability Team, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
2025 Changemaker People Power Award nominees
- Nicole Faccio-Otero
- Jayne Johnson, Customer Care Advisor / Receptionist
