Finalists

Team Awards

Patients as Partners

• Award Recipient: Caring for our carers (Western Sydney Local Health District)
• Aboriginal wellbeing hospital discharge journey booklet (Mid North Coast Local Health District)
• Supporting families after infant loss - multidisciplinary clinic (Sydney Local Health District)

Integrated Health Care

• Award Recipient: Diabetes Alliance Integration project (Hunter New England Local Health District)
• Hub and Spoke (Mid North Coast Local Health District)
• Reducing avoidable ambulance presentations in emergency (Northern Sydney Local Health District)
• Psychogeriatric SOS: eOutreach for rural Australia - by clinicians for clinicians (St Vincent's Health Network)

Translational Research

• Award Recipient: Prehospital thrombolysis and transfer improves outcomes in segment elevation myocardial infarction (Hunter New England Local Health District)
• Hypofractionated post-mastectomy radiotherapy at Mid North Coast Cancer Institute (Mid North Coast Local Health District)

Bob Leece Transforming Health Award

• Award Recipient: SeedTracker: Targeting prostate cancer for high precision radiotherapy (South Western Sydney Local Health District)
• A telehealth care model for spinal fractures (Hunter New England Local Health District)
• Confident and connected at home on haemodialysis (Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District)

Enhancing the Patients' Experience through the Arts

• Award Recipient: Rhythm and Rhymes Adolescent/Adult Program - hip-hop therapy (Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network)
• Gomeroi Gaaynggal arts health for pregnant Indigenous women (Hunter New England Local Health District)
• Being and belonging: How art transformed the new Blacktown Hospital Regional Dialysis Centre (Western Sydney Local Health District)

Local Solutions

• Award Recipient: Child-at-Risk electronic medical record alert (Northern NSW Local Health District)
• Developing a pathway for forensic paediatric services at Wagga (Murrumbidgee Local Health District)
• LifesmilesGOLD: Better access to oral health care (Southern NSW Local Health District)

Preventive Health

• Award Recipient: Physical activity 4 everyone: Preventing the decline in physical activity (Hunter New England Local Health District)
• Partners in improved developmental outcomes (South Western Sydney Local Heath District)
• Healthy Smiles Healthy Kids (Sydney Local Health District)

Harry Collins Award

• Award Recipient: Central line infection prevention in newborns (Sydney Local Health District)
• Right bug, right drug - every patient, every time (Central Coast Local Health District)
• Say no to multi resistant organisms (MROs) (South Eastern Sydney Local Health District)

Collaborative Team

• Award Recipient: Early recognition of dementia: Memory assessment program (Northern NSW Local Health District)
• VIP: Vocational Intervention Program (Mid North Coast Local Health District)
• Equal access for the culturally and linguistically diverse community (South Western Sydney Local Health District)

Individual Awards

Volunteer of the Year

• Award Recipient: Mrs Lyn Seghers (Northern Sydney Local Health District)
• Mrs Barbara Swain (Northern NSW Local Health District)
• Ms Janette Denniss (South Eastern Sydney Local Health District)

Staff Member of the Year

• Award Recipient: Ms Rosemaria Flaherty (Northern NSW Local Health District)
• Dr Shamasunder Acharya (Hunter New England Local Health District)
• Ms Heather Doolan (South Eastern Sydney Local Health District)
• Ms Wendy Holmes (Western NSW Local Health District)

Collaborative Leader of the Year

• Award Recipient: Mr Peter Rophail (Western Sydney Local Health District)
• Dr Michael Davis (Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District)
• Ms Melanie Lai (South Eastern Sydney Local Health District)

​​Peak Award

NSW Health Secretary Award

• Award Recipient: Confident and connected at home on haemodialysis (Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District)

Minister for Mental Health Award for Excellence in the provision of mental health services

• Award Recipient: Psychogeriatric SOS: e-outreach for rural Australia - by clinicians for clinicians (St Vincent's Health Network)

Minister for Health Award for Innovation

• Award Recipient: Reducing avoidable ambulance presentations in emergency (Northern Sydney Local Health District)