Two Southport people are among those named in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2020.
Gurpreet Singh, a Non-Executive Director and lately Consultant Urologist at Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust, has been made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to Healthcare, Equality and Fairness.
Christopher Armitt, QPM, Deputy Chief Constable of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, has been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to the Civil and Nuclear Industry.
Other notable winners of Honours locally include Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service Chief Fire Officer (CFO), Phil Garrigan has been honoured in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours list, receiving an OBE (Order of the British Empire).
Professor Malcolm Gracie Semple, Professor of Child Health and Outbreak Medicine at the University of Liverpool and Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, has also been honoured for services to the Covid-19 response.
Frontline workers and community champions dominate the Queen’s Birthday Honours List this year.
The 2020 List highlights 414 exceptional contributions of unsung heroes in all four nations in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and is the most ethnically diverse list to date, with 13% of recipients from a minority ethnic background.
The Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2020 awards 1,495 honours to people across the whole of the UK for their outstanding contributions to UK society.
Of those who have been awarded, 72% go to those who have worked tirelessly for their local community. This reflects the huge voluntary effort across the country in response to Covid-19, with recipients cumulatively supplying millions of free meals to those shielding, delivering care packages to NHS frontline workers and clocking up countless voluntary hours to support those at risk.
David Maguire MBE, 62 years old, from Glasgow, who repurposed his restaurant to provide free food to thousands of NHS workers at the hospital, vulnerable people and school children.
Jolene Miller BEM, 42 years old, from Stockton, County Durham, volunteered as a paramedic to help her former colleagues while also continuing to work as a train driver.
Healthcare and social care workers make up 14% of the List, for contributions as diverse as setting up the Covid-19 hospitals to delivering medical care on the frontline. Celebrating the World Health Organisation’s Year of the Nurse and Midwife, 41 nurses and midwives are included in the List compared with 17 in the New Year Honours List 2020.
Jade Cole BEM, 39 years old from Cardiff, was the only member of her team able to enter the intensive care unit to deliver clinical trials which informed how Covid-19 patients were treated. Her work helped show that there was a survival advantage for patients prescribed a particular drug.
Felicia Kwaku OBE, 52 years old from London, is Associate Director of Nursing at King’s College NHS Foundation Trust, who provided a support network to thousands of BAME nurses.
The Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2020 is the first List to have 11% of recipients under 30. Young people have provided innovative solutions to keeping the country connected and supplying the NHS with Personal Protective Equipment.
Henry James BEM, 23 years old from Edinburgh, designed, created and delivered PPE for healthcare workers, using 3D printing technology. He’s supplied thousands of masks to local businesses, vets, care workers and local food distribution all free of charge.
John Challenger BEM, 17 years old from Flintshire, Clwyd, kept thousands of Sea Cadets together through lockdown, running weekly virtual quizzes and managing forums to keep Cadets connected.
Footballer Marcus Rashford receives an MBE for services to vulnerable children in the UK during Covid-19.
Joe Wicks and Mr Motivator (Derrick Evans) receive MBEs for their accessible, live workouts to encourage people to stay physically and mentally fit during Covid-19. Joining them are Lavina Mehta and Rajinder Singh Harzall ‘the Skipping Skih’ who receive MBEs for encouraging elderly people to stay active in lockdown.
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