NZNO Awards

Three NZNO awards will be presented at the 2025 NZNO AGM and Conference dinner.

Nominations for all awards close at 5pm on Sunday 19 July 2026

National Award for Service to Nursing and Midwifery

  • This award enables the profession to recognise nurses or midwives at a national level.

Download award information and nomination form

National Award for Service to NZNO

  • This award enables NZNO to acknowledge the contribution of individual members to the work of the Organisation at a national level.

Download award information and nomination form

Nominations for all awards close at 5pm on Sunday 19 July 2026

Past awards

2025

Award of Honour

  • Abel Smith

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Sacha Young
  • Helen Garrick

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Jennie Rae

Honorary membership

  • Sandra Corbett
  • Debbie Robinson

2024

Te Akenehi Hei Memorial Award

  • Dhyanne Hohepa

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Erica Donovan
  • Debbie Handisides
  • Jill Lamb
  • Michelle Prattley

2023

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Wendy Alexander

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Lauren Moore

Young Nurse of the Year

  • John Fa’ukafa

2022

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Joan Knight
  • Karen Batchelor
  • Cheryl Hammond
  • Angie Crespin

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Melinda Jordan
  • Antonia Johnston
  • Roberta (Bobbie) Milne

Te Akenehi Hei Memorial Award

  • Rhoena Davis

2021

Award of Honour

  • Leonie Metcalfe

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Cheryl Hutchison

Young Nurse of the Year

  • Daniel Mataafa

Young Nurse of the Year - Runners Up

  • Jacinta Potter
  • Dana Smith
  • Maia Thackman

2020

Young Nurse of the Year

  • Kelly Talbot

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Michael (Mike) McNabb
  • Bridget Richards
  • Ann Simmons

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Bronwyn Kavalinovich

Te Akenehi Hei Memorial Award

  • Marie Noa

2019

Award of Honour

  • Sipaia Kupa

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Angeline Navamoka Hekau
  • Diane Noble
  • Gae Redshaw
  • Judy Warren
  • Kim Brooks
  • Michal Boyd (Ms)

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Jeannie (Jenny) Kendall
  • Sally Tollafield
  • Susan (Sue) McNabb

2018

Te Akenehi Hei Memorial Award

  • Moe Milne

Young Nurse of the Year - Co-winners

  • Annie Stevenson
  • Aroha Ruha-Hiraka

Young Nurse of the Year - Runner Up

  • Te Rongopai Clay-Mackay

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Leonie Metcalfe
  • Sheryl Haywood
  • Siniva Cruickshank
  • Vai Naseri

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Rosemary Brook
  • Linda Smillie
  • Melinda Jordan
  • Elizabeth (Liz) Runnalls

2016

Te Akenehi Hei Memorial Award

  • Pare O'Brien

Young Nurse of the Year

  • Jed Montyre
  • Rosita Richards

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Joy Millar

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Jacob Panikkmannil
  • Eseta Final
  • Karen Smith
  • Karen Smith
  • Deborah Hawkey

2015

Award of Honour

  • (Antanella) Leanne Lloyd

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Abel William Smith
  • Sonya Temata
  • Anita Te Kahu
  • Dorothy Browning
  • Julie Daltrey
  • Professor E Marion Jones

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Judy Hattie
  • Bridget Baldwin
  • Ruth Te Rangi
  • Samuel Mojel

Young Nurse of the Year

  • Gemma Hutton

2014

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Rosemary McGillicuddy

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Barbara Hammond
  • Nicki Twigge

Young Nurse of the Year

  • Katrina Coleman

Te Akenehi Hei Memorial Award

  • Maureen Allan

2013

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Violani Wills
  • Hemaima Hughes
  • Fiona Unac
  • Eseta Finau
  • Anne Humphreys
  • Elizabeth Bowker
  • Metuakore Bates

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Angela Thompson
  • Carol Pederson
  • Debbie O'Donoghue
  • Eleanor Cole
  • Jo-Anne Thomson
  • Lyn Latta
  • Mairi Lucas
  • Sharon Powley
  • Elma Turnbull
  • Berice Beach
  • Bernadette Burns
  • Jan Smith
  • Rachael Calverley
  • Stephanie Boston
  • Tracey Bruce

2012

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Heather Oehlrich

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Colleen Way
  • Heather Symes
  • Cheryl Hanham
  • Claire Johnston

Te Akenehi Hei Memorial Award

  • Mata Forbes

2011

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Diana Mallett
  • Margaret Pack
  • Karyn Hathaway
  • Debbie Davies
  • Linda Hogg
  • Rhoena Davis
  • Peri Whiu
  • Sheryl Holwerda

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Sue Jackson
  • Bernie Morgan
  • Deborah Urquhart
  • Jane Ayling
  • Cheryl Hammond
  • Margaret Stevenson

2010

Award of Honour

  • Marion Guy

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Heather Cormack
  • Lorraine Watts
  • Christine Bent
  • Garry Robinson

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Lynne Hansen
  • Justin Moore
  • Queenie Komene
  • Denise McGurk
  • Patricia Hurley
  • Fiona Sheppard
  • Gwen Ahuriri
  • Carol Rielly

Te Akenehi Hei Memorial Award

  • Janice Wenn

2009

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Potace Bennett
  • Sally Houliston
  • Hilary Graham-Smith
  • Jennie Rae

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Jennie Rae
  • Ian Stevenson
  • Patricia Clark
  • Marilyn Rosewarne
  • Bernadette Heaphy
  • Mary-Anne Cameron
  • Gordon Speed

2008

Award of Honour

  • Val Scott

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Ann Fowler
  • Christine Cumming
  • Michael McIIlhone

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Debbie Strode
  • Leonie Metcalfe
  • Raewyn Apiti
  • Avon Ward
  • Suzanne Bannister
  • Venus Cherrington
  • Carolyn Penn
  • Jo-Anne Thomson
  • Lyn Latta

Te Akenehi Hei Memorial Award

  • Noeline Warmington

2007

Award of Honour

  • Jane O’Malley

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Wendy Wilkinson
  • Sarah Paku
  • Maureen Bent
  • Heather Sedon
  • Sandra Corbett
  • Jan Dobson
  • Helen Rzepecky
  • Kathryn Bracken
  • Beth Kelly
  • Margaret Horn
  • Pip Rutherford
  • Pat Hildred

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Donna Thomas
  • Alison Brown
  • Sue de Vries
  • Ruth Hutton
  • Nano Tunnicliff
  • Maureen Bent

2006

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Anne McNicol
  • Chris Baker
  • Jan Featherston
  • Pip Cotterell
  • Sharyn McGarry
  • Jan Seuseu

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Anne McNicol
  • Julia Cleaver
  • Marianne Lock
  • Chris Baker
  • Nigel Milton
  • Viv Wrathall
  • Kathy Hulton
  • Teresa Fisher
  • Lesley Elliott
  • Des Canterbury
  • Helen Tuck
  • Jill Henderson
  • Marie Noa

Te Akenehi Hei Memorial Award

  • Vera Morgan

2005

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Rosemary Minto
  • Jane Lawless
  • John Parker
  • Anne Daniels

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Bonnie Horne
  • Glyn Havill
  • Joanne West
  • Marion Partington
  • Anne Daniels
  • Kay Hodson
  • Petrina Boyd
  • Paula Barnett

2004

Award of Honour

  • Janet Black

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Diana McGregor
  • Helen Schutt
  • Carolyn Wilson
  • Moira Dentice
  • Raewyn Paviour
  • Alison Pirret
  • Beverley Aspros
  • Jeanette Adams-Schneider

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Cath Hellyer
  • Judy Teavae
  • Val Scott
  • Dianna McGregor
  • Andrea Whittle
  • Wendy Cooper
  • Jane Lawless
  • Glenys Higgins

2003

Award of Honour

  • Robyn Hewlett
  • Carrol Mitchell

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Anne Moore
  • Gwenda Freese
  • Chiquita Hansen
  • Lorraine Borthwick

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Tina Stiffe
  • Lyn Harris
  • John Morel
  • Lorraine Lobb

2002

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Jackie Walker
  • Beverley Gordon

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Robyn Hewlett
  • Sharyn McGarry
  • Pat Webster
  • Ingrid Ouwerkerk (Ramsay)
  • Noeling Warmington
  • Rhoda Waitere
  • Beth Wynn-Williams
  • Pat Weperi
  • Daryl Godsiff

Te Akenehi Hei Memorial Award

  • Whaea Putiputi O'Brien

2001

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Marion Guy
  • Annie Fisher
  • Betty Dunn

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Terri Lambert
  • Janine Randle
  • Carrol Mitchell
  • Beverly Henderson
  • Jan Seuseu
  • Barbara Smith

Te Akenehi Hei Memorial Award

  • Irihapeti Ramsden

2000

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Jude Bruce
  • Lyndsay Rendall
  • Margaret Hopper

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Karen Vesey
  • Dianne Irwin
  • Helen MacKenzie
  • Joy Scott
  • Anne Russell
  • Anne McFarlane

1999

National Service Award to Nursing / Midwifery

  • Waveney Grennell
  • Elizabeth Niven
  • Marion Jones
  • Pat Carlton
  • Linda Gormly
  • Diana Grant-Mackie
  • Nanette Ainge

National Service Award to NZNO

  • Dorothy Stewart
  • Sue Thomas
  • Jane O'Malley
  • Jennifer Dorrian
  • Margaret Arthur
  • Jan Dobson
  • Mary Carney
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