Main Awards
Patients as partners
Frequent User Management
(NSW Ambulance)
Jonathan Tunhavasana (Ambulance Liaison Officer), Paul Wildin (Implementation Manager), Kevin McLaughlin (Manager Mental Health), Hon. Jillian Skinner MP, (Minister for Health)
Integrated health care
Bug Attack - St George Hospital Fight Back: Confronting Resistance
(South Eastern Sydney)
Johneen Tierney (Acting Director Pharmacy SGH), Suman Adhikari (AMS Pharmacist SGH), Alastair McDougall (former Director Pharmacy SGH), Dr Pam Konecny (Senior Staff Specialist SGH), the Hon. Jillian Skinner MP (Minister for Health)
Local solutions
Southcare Geriatric Flying Squad
(South Eastern Sydney)
A/Prof Peter Gonski (SESLHD), Nicole Wedell (St George and Sutherland Hospitals), Jeannette Jarick (Aged Care and Extended Rehabilitation Sutherland), Dr Shikha Jain (SESLHD)
Healthy living
Good for Kids, Good for Life:
Childhood Obesity Prevention
(Hunter New England)
Dr John Wiggers (Director HNE Local Health District Population Health), Karen Gillham (Director, Health Promotion, HNE LHD, the Hon. Jillian Skinner MP (Minister for Health), Dr Kerry Chant, (NSW Chief
Health Officer)
Building partnerships
Optimising Health and Learning in Refugee Students
(Sydney Children's Hospitals Network)
Dr Chris Elliot (SCHN), the Hon. Jillian Skinner MP (Minister for Health), Lisa Woodland (SESLHD), A/Prof Karen Zwi (SCHN), Dr Melissa Kang (WSLHD), Vivianne Challita-Ajaka (SESLHD)
Harry Collins Award
Innovations for MRSA Control in a NICU Population
(Western Sydney)
Dr Mark Tracy (Westmead Hospital), the Hon. Jillian Skinner MP (Minister for Health), Kathy Dempsey (Westmead Hospital), Bill Hall (Manager Westmead Hospital), Jo Tallon (Westmead Hodpital), Betty Johnson (Harry Collins sister in-law)
Peak Awards
Minister for Mental Health Award for Excellence
in the Provision of
Mental Health Service
Implementing an Assertive
Community Treatment Team
(Nepean Blue Mountains)
Enrique Albornoz (ACT Team), Bethany Pade (Rehabilitation Coordinator), Stuart Duncan (Mental Health Services), Kirrily Warner (Occupational Therapist), Alison Sneddon (NBMLHD), Hon. Kevin Humphries MP, (Minister for Mental Health and Healthy Lifestyles)
Minister for Health and Minister for Research Award for Innovation
In Safe Hands - Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounds
(Western NSW)
Catherine Nowlan (Orange Health Service), Darryl Mackender (OHService), Dr Gabriel Shannon (OHService), Dr Louise Messara (OHService), Sue Patterson (OHService), Rachel Devlin (OHService), the Hon. Jillian Skinner MP (Minister for Health)
Director General's Award for Integrated Care
Good for Kids, Good for Life:
Childhood Obesity Prevention
(Hunter New England)
Dr John Wiggers (HNE Local Health District Population Health), Karen Gillham (Health Promotion HNE LHD Population Health), Mary Foley (Director General Ministry of Health), Louise Hardy (Nutrition and Obesity Research Group
Individual Awards