WOODFORD GREEN: Nurse set to visit No 10 for prestigious award (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)

WOODFORD GREEN: Nurse set to visit No 10 for prestigious award

2:59pm Friday 15th January 2010

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A NURSE is set to receive a special award for innovation from the Prime Minister for her work in helping to keep elderly people out of hospital.

Mother-of-one Amanda Mayo helped set up non-profit making firm Urgent Care Ltd in 2007, in a bid to bring a different approach to patient care in London.

The firm, which is based in Mill Lane, Woodford Green, now has 20 full-time and around 20 part-time staff and uses its profits to pay for medical practitioners to complete further training.

It provides rapid response teams of specially trained nurses to NHS trusts across London who provide care for patients within the community to try and prevent the need for them to be admitted to hospital.

The firm also provides its nurses to walk in 'Urgent Care Centres' across the capital.

Ms Mayo, 40, will receive the Nursing Standard award for innovation from Gordon Brown at a ceremony in Downing Street next Thursday, (January 21).

For more information visit: urgentcarelimited.com

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