New Year Honours 2020
Helen Shanahan BEM
British Empire Medal (BEM)
• Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust and Breastfeeding Counsellor
“For services to Midwifery.”
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London Gazette notice
British Empire Medal
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
28 December 2019
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to approve the award of the British Empire Medal (Civil Division) to the undermentioned:
B.E.M.
Helen Mary SHANAHAN
Infant Feeding Coordinator, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust and Breastfeeding Counsellor, National Childbirth Trust
For services to Midwifery.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 62866 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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New Year Honours 2020- Role at the time
- Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust and Breastfeeding Counsellor
- Region
- Falmouth, Cornwall
“For services to Midwifery.”
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How common is this award?
The British Empire Medal was awarded 333 times in the New Year Honours List 2020 — about 24% of the list.
In their area
52 British Empire Medal recipients are from Cornwall.
What organisation were they with?
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust and Breastfeeding Counsellor.
How widely is this recognised?
5,249 people have been recognised for Health & Social Care.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
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Amelia Mathewson
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Amy Hearn
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Matthew Wilson
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Helen Whyley
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Pencoed, Mid Glamorgan
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Karen Weldon (karen Juggins)
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Carl Waldmann
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Neil Platt
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Liverpool, Merseyside
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Pamela Pattinson
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Leonard Pattinson
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Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Ghulam Ng
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Leicester, Leicestershire
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Benash Nazmeen
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Mark Major
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Kettering, Northamptonshire
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Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
British Empire Medal · 2020
London Gazette (official record), issue 62866, notice 3455801. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2020).
Published 27 December 2019.
Location (Falmouth, Cornwall) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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