Pamela Harris Medal and Educational Grant
Pamela Harris was a patient receiving parenteral nutrition who worked to set up the Nightingale Trust for Nutritional Support in 2005. Her aim was train caregivers who provide nutritional support to give safe, expert and compassionate care. The Pamela Harris Medal Lecture and educational grant is awarded in her honour.
Originally awarded at the National Nurses Nutrition Group (NNNG) conference it has been included in the British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (BAPEN) Conference programme since 2019, reaching a large multi-disciplinary audience. The Pamela Harris Lecture provides an exciting opportunity for nurses to submit an abstract which details a piece of work where the primary focus is improving patient care or management. An educational grant to attend the BAPEN Conference is available. Further details and how to apply are available here.
Previous winners:
2025: Winner: Heidi Hoi Ling Li. St Mark’s Hospital, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust. A quality improvement project to enhance external fixation device placement on gastrostomy tubes. An abstract of Heidi’s work is available to view here.
2024 Winner: Angela Cole, who presented her work on the development and implementation of a formal transition pathway for adolescents and young adults on home parenteral support in a UK intestinal failure unit. An abstract of Angela’s work is available to view here.
2023 Winner: Kirsty Hall, Intestinal Failure Unit, Salford Royal, Salford, United Kingdom, who presented her work on the efficiency of a Nurse led service in the management of Central Venous Catheter Repairs for patients receiving Home Parenteral Support. An abstract of Kirsty’s work is available to view here.
2022 Winner: Jose Bennell, Nutrition Nurse Specialist, Royal Free Hospital, who presented her work on Catheter Related Blood Stream Infections in the time of Covid. An abstract of Jose’s work is available to view here.
2019 Winner: Hayley Leyland, Nutrition Nurse Specialist from Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Trust, who presented her work on Repair of Central Venous Catheters in Home Parenteral Nutrition patients. An abstract of Hayley’s work is available to view here.
2018 Winner: Elaine Trautner, Nutrition Nurse Specialist, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, who presented her work, ‘Buried Bumper Syndrome‘. An abstract of Elaine’s work is available to view here.
2017 Winner: Margaret Collins, Nutrition Nurse Specialist from Cheltenham & Gloucester Hospitals, who presented her work, ‘Keeping the home in homeostasis‘. An abstract of Margaret’s work is available to view here.
2016 Winner: Mia Small, Consultant Nurse in Intestinal Failure & Nutrition at London & Northwest Healthcare Trust. Mia presented her winning work,’Harnessing innovative pump technology to improve the experience and outcomes of patients receiving home parenteral nutrition‘. An abstract of Mia’s work is available to view here.
2015 Winner: The inaugural lecture was given by Kurt Boeykens at the NNNG Conference in His lecture, ‘Reliability of pH measurement and the auscultatory method to confirm position of a nasogastric tube‘, was thought-provoking and well received.
