The winners of the inaugural SOM Occupational Health Awards were announced this week at the annual SOM/FOM Occupational Health conference in Bristol.
The awards were presented at the SOM AGM, alongside the SOM Golden Jubilee travel award, the ESSO prize winning article of the Occupational Medicine journal of the SOM 2017-2018, SOM Honorary Membership and SOM Regional Group of the year.
Winners were presented with their trophies by SOM President Air Commodore David McLoughlin OBE and the award sponsors. We are delighted to announce the winners as follows:
Outstanding Occupational Health Initiative, sponsored by Medigold Health – GSK, read more here
Outstanding Occupational Health Practitioner, sponsored by Health Management – Victoria Callaghan, read more here
Outstanding Contribution by an Employer to Workplace Health and Wellbeing, sponsored by Westfield Health – Unilever, read more here
Outstanding Occupational Health Team, sponsored by BHSF – Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust, Exeter Occupational Health Service (main photo, above), read more here
Special commendation was awarded to Jane Boulter and Civil Nuclear Constabulary.
Above: BHSF's Sue Burke (left) and SOM President Air Commodore David McLoughlin (right) presented the award for Outstanding Occupational Health Team to Paul Lian and Natalie Paterson of Exeter Occupational Health Service. Below: Medigold Health's Dr Gareth Williams (left) presented the award for Outstanding Occupational Health Initiative to Gifty Jonas of GSK; Richard Holmes (left) from Westfield Health presented the award for Outstanding Contribution by an Employer to Workplace Health and Wellbeing to Simon Rainbow of Unilever; Outstanding Occupational Health Practitioner winner Victoria Callaghan; special commendation was awarded to Jane Boulter.
