Finalists

Team Awards

Patients as Partners

• Award Recipient: Just PEACHY – Palliative care home support group (South Western Sydney Local Health District)

• MY Recovery – The consumer-led journey (Murrumbidgee Local Health District)
• Drain the pain – An innovative liver project (Northern NSW Local Health District)
• Strong fathers, strong families – Possum Cloaks (Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District)

Integrated Health Care​

• Award Recipient: Early detection of chronic kidney disease in Aboriginal people (Northern NSW Local Health District)

• Southcare outreach service (South Eastern Sydney Local Health District)
• A public-private rural physiotherapy service (Murrumbidgee Local Health District​)
• ​Nurse Practitioner: Outreach rapid acute care (Mid North Coast Local Health District)
• Community Integrated Team – At risk youth mental health (Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network)
• Introduction of the Missenden Short Stay Unit (Sydney Local Health District​)

Local Solutions

• Award Recipient: Conversion of a rural ED to an Urgent Care Centre (Mid North Coast Local Health District)

• Enduring client discharge project (Southern NSW Local Health District​)
• The SNAP project – Certificate III in aged care (Murrumbidgee Local Health District)
• Success story – Ophthalmology outpatient services (South Western Sydney Local Health District)
• ​Prostate Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy in seven mouse clicks (Northern NSW Local Health District)
• Paper-Lite – Implementation of anywhere, anytime, electronic medical records at Blacktown Hospital (Health Infrastructure)
• Electronic medication management at Concord Hospital (Sydney Local Health District)

Translational Research

• Award Recipient: Transforming acute stroke care locally and globally (Hunter New England Local Health District)

• Restoration of voice for tracheostomy patients in ICU (Sydney Local Health District)
• Health on the inside (Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network)

Arts and Health

• Award Recipient: BreastScreen NSW. Culturally and linguistically diverse engagement strategy (Cancer Institute NSW)

• The many colours of Blacktown and Mount Druitt (Western Sydney Local Health District)
• Singing to health: a choir for people with neurological communication disorders (South Eastern Sydney Local Health District)

​Collaborative Team

• Award Recipient: Teamwork the Mid North Coast way: From ED to UCC (Mid North Coast Local Health District)

• Eating with dignity (Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network)
• Improving long stay patient management (South Western Sydney Local Health District)
• TruNarc: A partnership between police and pathology (NSW Health Pathology)
• Triple CCC project – Care, communicate, coordinate (Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District)
• Rapid access colonoscopy: positive faecal occult blood test (Hunter New England Local Health District)

Harry Collins Award​

• Award Recipient: Catheter associated urinary tract infection project (Sydney Local Health District)
• Award Recipient: Preventing catheter associated urinary tract infection​ (Hunter New England Local Health District)

• Mighty germ but tight plan can send the baby home (South Eastern Sydney Local Health District)
• Healthy mouths in hospital (Southern NSW Local Health District)

Preventive Health

• Award Recipient: Smoke–free commercial outdoor dining for NSW (NSW Ministry of Health​)

• Your Health Link: Health information the right way (Mid North Coast Local Health District)
• Aboriginal Quitline: Leading by example (St Vincent's Health Network)

Individual Awards

Volunteer of the Year

• Award Recipient: Ms Karen Kemp (Far West Local Health District)

• Mrs Judy Lavery (The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network)
• Aunty Joy Reid (Hunter New England Local Health District)
• ​Mr Brian Rope (South Western Sydney Local Health District)
• Mrs Louise Stanton (Mid North Coast Local Health District)

Staff Member of the Year​

• Award Recipient: Dr Greg Barclay (Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District​)

• Mr Joe Borgia (The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network)
• Ms Vickie Knight (South Eastern Sydney Local Health District)
• Dr Sarah Wenham (Far West Local Health District)

Collaborative Leader of the Year

• Award Recipient: Ms Michelle Eason (Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network)

• Professor Jan Potter (Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District)
• Professor Les White, AM, Chief Paediatrician (NSW Health)

Peak Awards

NSW Health Secretary Award for Integrated Care

• Award Recipient: A public-private rural physiotherapy service (Murrumbidgee Local Health District​)

Minister for Mental Health Award for Excellence in the Provision of Mental Health services

• Award Recipient: Enduring client discharge project (Southern NSW Local Health District​)

Minister for Health Award for Innovation

• Award Recipient: Electronic medication management at Concord Hospital (Sydney Local Health District)