00:00I'm delighted to announce that the winner of our Hello Star Women Community Award is going to the Well Child
00:07Nursing Community.
00:08Well Child Nurses specialise in providing the emotional and practical support needed to ensure children with serious or complex health
00:16needs have the best chance to thrive at home where they should be.
00:20I feel very humbled when I meet some of the families I work with and see what they have to
00:24cope with every day.
00:25My phone is always there, I can be contacted and sometimes families just want to have somebody that will listen
00:32to their thoughts and their feelings.
00:35It's been especially hard for them during the pandemic as many families have not had the care and respite that
00:41they usually have and they've shown amazing resilience despite that.
00:45I absolutely love my job.
00:47I feel so privileged to be a part of these children and families' lives and to be able to offer
00:52that little bit of support for them as they manage to fight their way through with this challenging time.
00:57More than 100,000 children and young people across the UK need highly skilled care and when Covid-19 took
01:04hold many families caring for a child with complex needs saw much of their care stop altogether.
01:10However, children like four-year-old Harry who had respiratory failure and a rare genetic disease that kept him in
01:15hospital for 14 months.
01:17Thanks to the hard work of Well Child Nurses, Elaine and Sue at Alderhea Children's Hospital in Liverpool, young Harry
01:24was given a guard of honour by the local emergency services when he left hospital to go home.
01:30There are currently 45 Well Child Nurses working across the whole of the UK.
01:35They could not be more worthy winners of our Community Award for 2020.
01:41I'm very fortunate to have two Well Child Nurses working in different areas of respiratory medicine and the value of
01:47these nurses can't be underestimated.
01:49Huge congratulations and thanks.
01:51I'm delighted to accept a Hello Style Women 2020 Community Award on behalf of our wonderful team of Well Child
01:58Children's Nurses.
01:59We are currently working hard across the UK to support families with seriously ill children through the Covid-19 pandemic
02:07and beyond.
02:08I would like to thank each and every one of our Well Child Children's Nurses team for their dedication and
02:13hard work in caring for our growing population of children and young people.
02:17And of course, a huge thank you to Hello for honouring us with this award.
02:21This is for all of you. Thank you.
