A DOLGELLAU healthcare professional has been rated as one of the best nurses in the UK.

Steven Evans Jones, healthcare assistant at Dolgellau Hospital, has been shortlisted as one of the five finalists in the Royal College of Nurses awards 2016 in the in the RCN healthcare assistant category.

Mr Jones (pictured) will travel to London on Tuesday, 23 March, in order to give a presentation before an audience of medical experts before facing an agonising wait until May to see if he is crowned as the country’s finest healthcare assistant.

The nurse has recently been lauded for his work as a male healthcare ambassador in the region and has delivered numerous talks to students in Coleg Meirion Dwyfor discussing testicular cancer and other such topics.