Clinical Trials Aseptic Services Unit (CTASU)

Nomination

Award Category:

Public Choice

Individual or Team Nomination?

Team

Qualifying Qualities

In these challenging times, nominators were asked to show how the nominee had demonstrated the following qualities:

Exceptional work ethic - going above and beyond their job description, especially in the past 12 months.
Outstanding achievement/s in work or outside of the organisation where relevant.
Drive for innovation and proactive leadership in these challenging times.
High level of interpersonal skills, such as kindness, empathy, loyalty and thoughtfulness to staff and patients.
A resilience considering Covid to their role and to the health and wellbeing of their colleagues.

Nominators Answer

Nominee's story :

CTASU, a team of 15 whos usual daily work load is made up of compounding clinical trial IV medications for a broad range of conditions and diseases. Throughout the pandemic we were also tasked with compounding supporting medications for patients with Covid on ITU. This increased our workload from around 20/30 infusions per day up to 500 per day. New shift patterns were formed to accommodate this, extra hours worked and weekends became non existent. Everyone at CTASU has been amazing and helped each other throughout this busy time, both work and personal life. Alongside this members of CTASU were also involved in the pharmacy PIPA service which also prepared medications for the ward to ease the pressure on the nurses. After hours staff would attend to help out at the Covid vaccination center set up at the Churchill hospital oxford, often staying very late to help vaccinate the huge volumes of people within the trust. I would love a bit of recognition for the CTASU team for all the hard work and long hours put in this year and the speed in which these extra services provided were set up. Thanks! Matt