Excellence in Multicultural Healthcare Award

​The Excellence in Multicultural Healthcare Award recognises exceptional healthcare delivery for people from multicultural backgrounds through strong partnerships across NSW Health and external agencies.

NSW Health has an ongoing commitment to focus on the development and delivery of safe, high-quality, culturally responsive, and accessible health services for people from multicultural backgrounds, designed in collaboration with multicultural communities.

This award recognises projects, programs or initiatives which demonstrate:

• Best practice, excellence, and innovation in the delivery of culturally responsive healthcare and preventative health programs.
• Consumer and community engagement in the design, delivery and evaluation of projects, programs or initiatives which involve close partnerships with communities.
• Capacity building of health staff, services and systems to deliver culturally responsive and inclusive healthcare.
• Best practice in the design, dissemination and sharing of multilingual health information across NSW.
• Responsiveness to local multicultural communities’ health needs.
• Data driven quality improvement programs and/or targeted models of care to address health inequities experienced by people from multicultural and refugee backgrounds.​