Award Categories

Time To Shine reflects the excellent work happening across the organisation help us achieve our vision and goals.

We want to hear how teams have taken on the 7 Commitments and made a difference to the way we work.

Our Time To Shine categories for 2025

This is our commitment to build on the excellent work we have achieved as a Trust last year, where we successfully made an average half-day reduction in length of stay per patient. We’re committed to deliver better care, quality and experience focusing on all aspects of the patient’s pathway, not just the constitutional standards.

We know we should be doing everything we can to reduce the associated risks that lead to harm to patients in our care. We are committed to making measurable progress against quantifiable metrics – with continued audits, increased training and education across the Trust (including non-clinical ward areas).

We are committed to making strides towards our goal of being the best place to work. We will promote an open culture with a “You say, We listen” approach, act on Staff Survey feedback, and act on our strengthened Freedom to Speak Up governance structures.

This is our commitment to continue to find and embed cost-saving measures across the Trust, to ensure we are delivering the best value for taxpayers. We will continue waste reduction programmes, financial incentives, and drive efficiencies at all levels.

This is a new commitment for this year, to ensure we are doing our bit to help mitigate the climate crisis, progress towards net zero carbon emissions, and become a more sustainable organisation overall.

New for this year is our commitment to effectively manage our existing resources, specifically our digital systems and ensuring we are using them to their full potential, including understanding their importance and impact to enhance quality and timeliness of care.

We recruited 20,000 patients to research studies in Leeds last year, and this year we are continuing our commitment to research and innovation, strengthening participation and encouraging growth in the number of live research projects, grant applications, training academies, and AI. We want to become a global R&I leader delivering outstanding research and innovative practice, and we will enhance the visibility of R&I across all areas of the Trust.

Unsung Hero Awards

Working in the NHS can be really difficult, and it’s often our colleagues that help us through. The Unsung Hero awards is an opportunity to say thank you to those people who make coming to work that little bit easier and make a real difference to their team and the people we serve.

Rising Star Award

Joining the NHS is the first step to an amazing career. We want to celebrate the colleagues who are our rising stars and future workforce of LTHT.

This award is for colleagues who have started working at LTHT in the last two years and have already made their mark. (This doesn’t have to be their first role in the NHS).

Hospital Hero Award

This award is nominated by our patients and their families. We’re always receiving fantastic feedback for our colleagues and this is an extra special way to say thank you for that person who has made your time in hospital that little bit easier.