Ewa Gasior’s black and white image of the helping hands contributing to patient care has won the Our Care category in the Our NHS at 75 competition.
Ewa, a senior research nurse, captioned her photo ‘We’ve got you, You’ve got this’. Her photo was chosen for how it managed to capture the NHS core value of care, whether care to patients, volunteers, or to each other as colleagues.
The five winners of the photography competition for NHS staff and volunteers were unveiled earlier earlier this month at the FUJIFILM House of Photography, with other images including long-serving nurse, ‘Mother Obe’, the NHS COVID-19 vaccination effort and an ambulance battling the Beast from the East also among the winning images.
Ewa: “It has been an incredible experience to come together to celebrate 75 years of our National Health Service and all those who have contributed to it. To be a part of the NHS means that, at times, we face unprecedented challenges whilst striving to continuously deliver high quality care. During those times, we may struggle to find the right words and the right ways to support our patients through their journeys. The photo is a way to remind us all that, in the midst of so many challenges, what makes a real difference are the connections we build with our patients, how they get translated into our best practice, and the impact they end up having on our patients’ lives.“
The national competition, run by NHS England in partnership with Fujifilm, saw hundreds of the health service’s staff and volunteers from across the country enter photographs that told their unique stories of what the NHS means to them. The five winners, each of whom represent the broad range of professions across the health service, were picked from a shortlist of 75 photographs across five different categories and their photographs were displayed at the NHS 75th anniversary service at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday 5 July.
Interim Chief Nurse, Helen Christodoulides: “Care is the motivator of everything we do as nurses, and I’m really proud that the winning photograph for the Our Care category came from a nurse here in Leeds. Patient-Centred is one of our Leeds Way values, and Ewa’s photo perfectly captures our philosophy of putting the patient at the centre of all we do. Congratulations, Ewa. This is very well deserved!”
Caitlin O’Connell, Clinical Photographer at LTHT, was also shortlisted in the ‘Our People’ category, for her warm capture of a volunteer at the Trust who spends his time volunteering in the Trust’s patient library, often loading up his trolley with books and distributing to patients in hospital.
Cover image: Ewa’s winning entry – ‘We’ve got you, You’ve got this’.
