Name: Rachel Small
Organisation: University Hospital Birmingham
Award Category: Healthcare Professional
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My Plea:
Thank you for taking the time to read this. I am honoured and privileged to be nominated and shortlisted for the Butterfly Award for Health Care Professional 2019. For the nomination to come from a patient I have cared for is overwhelming.
My passion is caring for couples who have experienced recurrent miscarriages or early pregnancy complications. Making a difference and impacting people’s lives is what drives me.
I am the Lead Midwife for Early Pregnancy and Miscarriage Care at University Hospital Birmingham. I am the first Midwife to Chair the Association of Early Pregnancy Units that sets standards for hospitals in the UK. I sit on the NICE guideline group and ESHRE working committee for miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy care.
Working in a Recurrent Miscarriage Clinic and Early Pregnancy Unit is a vocation, not a job. To know that the work we do impacts people’s lives whether that be the research we are conducting, conference we are running to educate other health professional or reassurance scans for the couple to support them.
I truly believe that you can give good supportive care even when the you are giving bad news and caring for a couple in a very sad time, to be part of the couples journey during their darkest days is a privilege to any health professional the couple allow to care for them.
What Others Have Said
A few weeks after our miscarriage, I was rushed back in to receive further care following a massive bleed from retained tissue. Rachel came in very early on a Sunday morning to scan me, talk me through my options and then sat with me for a few hours – all on her own day off. Her experience and support during this time was invaluable. She did everything to make this awful time much more comforting. She is a true professional.
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Rachel Small is a dedicated and caring midwife. she gives 150% to her work
Rachel Small is a dedicated midwife who gives 150% to her patients and her team.
Rachel is outstanding in her field. Caring, supportive, always available when you need her. I can’t thank her enough for what she did for us when we felt like we were getting no where with our dreams of having a family. Without Rachel we wouldn’t be where we are. We now have a beautiful daughter Rosa x
Rachel is an extremely dedicated , honest, forward thinking nurse with exceptional leadership skills. she is passionate about patient care and extremely empathetic. She is a fantastic team player and deserves recognition.
Amazing lady! Amazing work! Thank you for your compassion and dedication to the family’s you work with each and everyday.
Your proof that there are people out there who really care about others and their feelings.
Thank you for everything you have done to support our daughter and her husband. You are an answer to prayers.
Rachel Small is first class caring patient professional who deserves to win this award.
Rachel is the most
Passionate and professional nurse. She was amazing when we had our twins following some really difficult times. She always goes over and above! A true angel.
Rachel Small is one of the most committed and dedicated professionals I have ever met. She shows warmth and empathy in all situations and goes above and beyond for patients.
A true professional
Dedicated to providing caring and compassionate service to women and their families experiencing pregnancy loss.
Rachel combines utmost professionalism with deep, genuine care for women and families impacted by early pregnancy loss. Far too often, early loss is swept under the carpet. Rachel tackles this taboo subject head-on. As well as supporting patients one-to-one, she works hard to effect change in the healthcare system to help families having to go through such difficult times.
Rachel is caring, compassionate, dedicated and goes above and beyond for her patients and their families. She is an outstanding leader who expects high standards but supports her team to deliver those standards. I feel very lucky to have Rachel on my team
Without the support of Rachel, we would not have our little family. She is an amazing lady who I will always be eternally grateful to for giving us the love and support in our most darkest hours and who shared in our most happiest when we came out the other side. A true professional who is dedicated, passionate and caring. I can not think of anybody more deserving of this award.
Rachel is an angel without wings as she listens, she genuinely cares, she is very supportive and most of all she makes a difference in lives.
We need more Rachel Smalls in this world. Truly amazing work . Thank you.
Rachel is very dedicated to the women and families who receive her care.
From her own experience she can have real empathy with her patients.
Achieving the best knowledge she can have for her patients drives her to research and continue to improve her already vast knowledge , so she can be even more effective in caring for her patients.
Rachel is a very special person…An amazing lady who is dedicated to her job and all those she cares for.
One of the most compassionate healthcare professionals I’ve ever been lucky enough to be cared for by. Rachel was hugely supportive and empathetic to both myself and my husband during an enormously difficult, emotional and uncertain time. I am forever thankful to her for the care she showed us during this time.
A truly caring, compassionate & dedicated professional! One in a kind!
I was lucky enough to have Rachel with me at the scan when it was discovered I was having twins. She is a wonderful person and truly dedicated to her job.
Rachel has accomplished so much in her chosen field of nursing. She has shown herself to be very professional and at the same time very caring. Those who have benefitted from her compassionate care readily testify to her commitment to her work and her care for her patients.