A CARE project at Airedale Hospital which helps people at the end of life has been shortlisted in the Kate Granger Compassionate Care Awards.

The Airedale Palliative Care Team have set up a service which allows patients in the last year of their lives and their carers to get constant telephone or face-to-face advice through mobile devices.

Lyndsay Mackenzie, of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, said: “The Airedale Palliative Care team do a fantastic job at promoting and delivering a patient-centred service. They are clinically led from the front, innovative and driven to overcome any obstacles in their path. We are extremely proud of them.”

Pictured are the team's care specialists, from left, Fiona Widdowson, Sarah Davie, Nicola Duckworth, and consultant Dr Mike Hughes.

Now in their third year, the awards were set up by Kate Granger, the terminally ill doctor who worked to raise awareness around compassion in the NHS through her '#hellomynameis' social media campaign. She died on July 23 this year.

The awards will be staged at the Health and Innovation Expo 2016 in Manchester on September 7 and 8.