Finalists

Main Awards

Patients as partners

• Award recipient: Frequent User Management (NSW Ambulance)
• A Renal Care Pathway for Chronic Kidney Disease Patients (South Western Sydney)
• Engaging, empowering, escalating: Supporting consumers to act if concerned (Sydney Children's Hospitals Network)
• In Safe Hands - Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounds (Western NSW)

Integrated health care

• Award recipient: Bug Attack - St George Hospital Fight Back: Confronting Resistance (South Eastern Sydney)
• Every Second Counts - Pre Hospital Assessment for Primary Angioplasty (PAPA) - Illawarra Shoalhaven and NSW Ambulance
• Keeping Connections: Childhood Bereavement Program (NSW Health Pathology)
• Triple I "Hub": Beyond Intake (South Western Sydney)

Local solutions

• Award recipient: Southcare Geriatric Flying Squad (South Eastern Sydney)
• E=MC2 - An Innovative Hospital Cleaning Model (Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network)
• Fly in Fly Out Rural Hospital to Regional Medical Hub (Murrumbidgee)

Healthy living

• Award recipient: Good for Kids, Good for Life: Childhood Obesity Prevention (Hunter New England)
• A Midwifery Initiated Dental Service: An Australian First (South Western Sydney)
• Culture Health Communities: NSW Aboriginal Knockout Health (NSW Ministry of Health)
• Friendly Bacteria (Probiotics) Saving Tiny Lives (Nepean Blue Mountains)
• The Intangile Storytelling Project (Far West)

Building partnerships

• Award recipient: Optimising Health and Learning in Refugee Students (Sydney Children's Hospitals Network)
• ClinTrial Refer - A mobile app to connect patients and haematologists with local clinical research trials (South Eastern Sydney)
• Managing Outpatient Substance Withdrawal Program (South Western Sydney)

Collaborative team

• Award recipient: Setting the Standard: A Patient Journey at Royal North Shore Hospital (Northern Sydney)
• ASK (For Guidance) - South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Shoalhaven
• The One Time Giving Your Colleagues a RaSH Could Save Their Lives (Mid North Coast)

Harry Collins Award

• Award recipient: Innovations for MRSA Control in a NICU Population (Western Sydney)
• A Team Approach Every Day Keeps the Germs at Bay (South Eastern Sydney)
• Reducing the Incidence of Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteraemia (South Western Sydney)

Peak Awards

Minister for Mental Health Award

• Award recipient: Implementing an Assertive Community Treatment Team (Nepean Blue Mountains)
• Storm Taming Sensory Modulation within a Mental Health HDU (Mid North Coast)

Individual Awards

Volunteer of the year

• Award recipient: Peggy Roberts (South Eastern Sydney)
• Barbara Moore (Mid North Coast)
• Judy Day (Sydney Children's Hospitals Network)
• Peggy Dickinson (Sydney)

Staff member of the year

• Award recipient: Wendy Robinson (Western NSW)
• Alfa D'Amato (NSW Ministry of Health)
• Carolyn Guichard (Mid North Coast)

Collaborative leader of the year

• Award recipient: Dr Gabriel Shannon (Western NSW)
• Dr Craig Boutlis (Illawarra Shoalhaven)
• Professor Michael Barton (South Western Sydney)
• Rosemary Garthwaite (Murrumbidgee)