Milton Keynes resident Danny Gaskin has won an award at this year’s Advancing Healthcare Awards.
Held at the Park Plaza Hotel in London, the Advancing Healthcare Awards (AHAwards) identify examples of good innovative practice throughout the UK and reward the accomplishments of healthcare professionals.
Amongst the winners is young biomedical scientist Danny Gaskin, who after being inspired by the professionals working in a dental surgery, decided to go back to school. He worked seven days a week to put himself through university and graduated with a biomedical science degree from the University of Salford.
Danny’s efforts and perseverance have been recognised this year at the AHAwards, where he won a Rising Star award.
This award recognises a colleague or member of staff who has shown an exceptional level of initiative, skill and commitment, and who has been a qualified allied health professional or healthcare scientist for less than five years.
Today Danny works at Milton Keynes University Hospital in the laboratory. Biomedical scientists like Danny diagnose disease and evaluate the effectiveness of treatments through the analysis of fluids and tissue samples, handling over 150 million samples every year. In the UK alone, pathologists are involved in over 70% of diagnoses in the NHS.
Danny said, "It was both an honour and a privilege to have been invited to share the stage with so many inspirational professionals from many different disciplines in health care. It’s fantastic that health care scientists, and in particularly biomedical scientists, are getting increasingly more recognition and appreciation for our contribution to health care. Thanks to the organisers for a brilliant day.”
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