Published on: 27th March 2018
A mental health nurse from Grantham, Lincolnshire was among those celebrated at an event at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday 14 March 2018.
The Prince of Wales, who will share his 70th birthday with the NHS’ 70th birthday this year, hosted a special reception to acknowledge over 350 frontline nurses from across the country.
Anna Black is the Team Lead for the Grantham Crisis Team and Single Point of Access service at Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT), where she supports people accessing mental health services for the first time and those experiencing a mental health crisis.
Anna was nominated to attend the event by LPFT’s Director of Nursing, AHPs and Quality, Anne-Maria Newham. Anne-Maria said:
Anna was acting up into the role of team lead for a long time and did that with absolute professionalism.
She has been brilliant with supporting staff, in light of some difficult situations that have occurred whilst she has been in post. She is a role model for staff at LPFT, and that is why I nominated her for this once in a lifetime opportunity.
I am so glad that the nomination was successful and that Anna was recognised alongside other fantastic nurses.
Anna explained that it was an honour to attend the event.
Anna said:
It was a lovely experience, and quite surreal! The Prince of Wales gave a great speech; he’s a big advocate for nursing and spoke very highly of the profession. He spent a lot of time talking to as many of the attendees as he could, including a brief conversation with myself to ask if I was enjoying the evening.
I was very proud to represent LPFT at the event, and it was great to meet so many people who work in different areas of nursing.
