Published:
9th May 2025

Find out who the winners are for 2025

Changemaker Champion

A healthcare professional who has made an outstanding contribution in the treatment of leg and foot conditions.

Together for Change Award

A healthcare team that has worked together to create positive change in the treatment of leg and foot conditions.

People Power Award

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.

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

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