This year the Chair, Dr Lesley Thomson KC, presented two Chair’s Awards of Excellence which recognise outstanding achievement, expertise and dedication in patient care. As with all our awards, they celebrate the incredible efforts of our wonderful staff.
The Celebrating Success Event was held on 30th May 2024.
The winners were announced live on the night on our social media channels (follow the #ggcawards tag).
You can find out who the winners were and also view their photos and videos below.
Congratulations to all our winners!
Dr Mike Basler and his Team
Dr Mike Basler is a Consultant Anaesthetist at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Since 2017, Dr Basler has helped provide anaesthetic care to patients in Ghana as part of project, Resurge Africa, while organising and leading burns, resuscitation, and regional anaesthesia courses for the local staff.
This year was Dr Basler’s last trip as an NHS consultant before he retires and he pulled together a larger team of anaesthetic consultants and trainees to provide a more ambitious programme of teaching along with anaesthetic support in theatre.
Dr Basler has worked tirelessly for many years on this project and provided high quality clinical care in challenging circumstances, always with an infectious level of enthusiasm.
He has also made it his goal to ensure a sustainable relationship between the Glasgow and Accra anaesthetics departments so that these training and clinical care initiatives can continue successfully after his retirement.
Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Team
The Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Team is based in the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Care. The team provides outstanding support for their patients and their families during a highly stressful time in their lives.
This included enabling young people to get together with others of a similar age who are also going through a cancer journey.
When an annual and much-loved charity peer-to-peer support event fell through in 2023, this team stepped in to arrange, organise, facilitate, and support a group of young people from all over Scotland to attend a weekend-long event at an outward-bound centre instead. It was a great success and a trip to remember for everyone involved.
