Awards

Awards and recognition

National and international recognition for Tara’s work, and for the prehabilitation services she has founded and led.

Award for the service she founded

QuestPrehab wins at the HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2026

The QuestPrehab digital prehabilitation programme, delivered with West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, won Surgical Care Safety Initiative of the Year.

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2026

HSJ Patient Safety Award — QuestPrehab, Surgical Care Safety Initiative of the Year

All awards

Awards and honours

2026

QuestPrehab — winner, HSJ Patient Safety Awards: Surgical Care Safety Initiative of the Year

QuestPrehab digital prehabilitation, delivered with West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

2024

QuestPrehab — winner, Healthcare Awards: Excellence in Telehealth

2021

Runner-up — Kent, Surrey and Sussex Surgical Research Forum

2020

Prehab Unit rated Outstanding — Care Quality Commission inspection

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

2020

Runner-up — British Association of Surgical Oncology (BASO)

2020

Certificate of Recognition, Innovation of the Year — ISPRM 2020

2019

Winner — ERAS® Society: Best Perioperative Success Story

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

2019

Winner — Best Concept Presentation, Perioperative Care 2019 conference

Medway

Chief Executive’s Scholarship for Brilliance

Medway NHS Foundation Trust — supported international research in Canada

2008

Excellence Award for Academic Achievement

Barts and The London School of Anaesthesia

Grants & features

Grants and national features

Grant

Three-year recurring Health Inequalities Grant for Prehabilitation

NHS South East London ICB

Feature

Case study — NHS England Perioperative Digital Playbook

Kent & Medway Prehab; invited to present at the Playbook’s launch

2020 · Feature

NHS Fab Academy — adaptations to the COVID-19 pandemic