Mickey Cox, Heart Failure Specialist Nurse at James Paget Hospital, has been awarded a ‘Special Recognition’ Award by Pumping Marvellous, the UK’s heart failure charity.
The award celebrates Mickey’s hard work in working with Pumping Marvellous to coordinate a series of outreach events in Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft, aimed at identifying cases of heart failure, high blood pressure and atrial fibrillation (irregular heart beat).
The two events took place in October 2025, and were run with the support of Pumping Marvellous, the community team from East Coast Community Health Care (ECCH), and a team of student nurses from the UEA, who were clinically supervised by James Paget Consultant Cardiologist Dr Sunil Nair.
In addition, the events were supported by local GP surgeries East Norfolk Medical Practice and Park Surgery, which sent out text messages to their patients to encourage them to attend for a free heart check.
Over 500 free heart health checks were delivered over the two events, and while the majority of attendees were given a reassuring clean bill of health, the comprehensive tests used by the team found that some had undiagnosed heart conditions, requiring further treatment.
Mickey’s Special Recognition Award was presented to him on 10 February by James Paget Executive Managing Director Jonathan Gardner. In receiving the award, Mickey said: “I am surprised and delighted to have received this award from Pumping Marvellous.
“I wish to thank my colleagues in the Cardiac Nurse Team, the teams at ECCH and East Norfolk Medical Practice and Park Surgery, and Pumping Marvellous for working in the spirit of collaboration to reach out and raise heart health awareness in our communities.”
Kate Hornby, Operations and Development Manager at Pumping Marvellous, said: “Mickey has such passion and drive to help those living with heart failure, it is evident in every interaction he has and is tremendous to see. He championed our BEAT Healthy Heart Events and fully embraced the opportunity to help even more people who may be unaware that their symptoms could be related to their heart health. We only wish there were more Mickeys!”
Following the success of the events last year, Pumping Marvellous is coordinating a further BEAT heart health session, taking place on Thursday 19 March at Market Gates Shopping Centre, Great Yarmouth between 10am and 3pm.
At the event, clinical staff will offer visitors a range of diagnostic tests including:
- An electro-cardiogram (ECG) to monitor the heartbeat
- A portable echo-cardiogram machine to carry out ‘quick look’ ultrasound scan of the heart for more detailed images
- Point of care blood tests, with results in 15 minutes, for NTproBNP, a hormone which indicates possible heart failure.
Pumping Marvellous and clinical teams will also support people with advice and guidance on heart health. You can find out more about Pumping Marvellous here: https://pumpingmarvellous.org/
