Nottingham nurse wins Mary Seacole Award

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A Nottingham nurse has won a national award. Pamela Makwehe, from the cardiac intensive unit at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, is developing a project to improve health outcomes for black and minority ethnic (BME) communities. The Zimbabwean-born health worker has been named as a recipient of the 2014 Mary Seacole Leadership and Development Award. The awards were created in 1994 in honour of pioneering Victorian nurse Mary Seacole who cared for wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War. In this clip, the BBC's Reya El-Salahi speaks to the award-winning Nottingham nurse and one of the ceremony's judges, Stacy Johnson, a lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham.