Bowel Cancer UK, the UK’s leading bowel cancer charity, have announced Filipe Carvalho from the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust as a winner of the prestigious national Gary Logue Colorectal Nurse Cancer Awards.
Charlene White, patron and ITN news presenter, announced the winners at the National Colorectal Cancer Nurses Network (NCCNN) virtual study day on Wednesday 29 September. Filipe will receive a bursary towards his professional development.
Catherine Winsor, Director of Services at Bowel Cancer UK, said: “We asked healthcare professionals and patients to nominate their inspirational colleagues and colorectal cancer nurses; those who make a huge difference to the lives of everyone they reach. Filipe’s nomination shows just how much he deserved to win this award and we want to thank him for his hard work and dedication.”
The nomination was sent in by a colleague, who said: “Filipe’s role involves supporting patients with a variety of advanced colorectal cancers, who require, amongst others, surgeries such as total pelvic exenteration. He is a perfectionist when it comes to patient care and splendidly proactive in ensuring constant provision of effective, safe, and high-quality care, along with high patient satisfaction.
“He is an asset to the Trust and has a key role within the team which includes assessment and formulation of clinical decisions and management plans by independently using advanced clinical assessment and diagnostic skills to provide ongoing care and treatment. Recently he showed outstanding leadership skills and was instrumental in setting up and running the COVID Cancer Hub, which saw over 200 patients with colorectal cancer from hospitals across our network undergoing surgery in two COVID free hospital sites.”
Filipe Carvalho, said: “I am overwhelmed with gratitude to have been selected to receive this award. It is a huge honour for me to have my work recognized in this way, though this accomplishment is not something that I did alone, and there are many others who deserve to share in this award, including the other fellow nominees who I would like to recognise their immense hard work.
I feel very blessed to have a job that allows me to help patients every day. To be able to support patients get the most out of their lives at such a difficult time is a huge privilege. This award will always be dear to me and will only motivate me more to go above and beyond and ensure bowel cancer patients receive outstanding high-quality care.”
Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the UK and the second biggest cancer killer. Every 15 minutes in the UK someone is diagnosed with bowel cancer.
The awards were set up in memory of Gary Logue, who worked as a nurse for the charity and passed away in 2014, in honour of the tireless dedication he showed during his career.
