Finalists

Team Awards

Transforming Patient Experience

• Oncology Telephone Helpline (Northern Sydney Local Health District)
• Self-efficacy for Patients with Immunodeficiency (South Western Sydney Local Health District)
• Winter is Coming - Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Management (Western NSW Local Health District)

Delivering Integrated Care

• Creating Healthy Homes and Neighbourhoods (Sydney Local Health District)
• MyNetcare – Enabling Virtual Health Care (Hunter New England Local Health District)
• Young Mums, Dads and Bubs – A Collaborative Approach to Care (Mid North Coast Local Health District)

Patient Safety First

• Fast-track Ambulatory Pathway (South Western Sydney Local Health District)
• Smarter, Safer Vitals Monitoring (Mid North Coast Local Health District)
• Walking the Milky Way (Northern Sydney Local Health District)

Keeping People Healthy

• Aunty Roma’s: An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-specific Falls Prevention Program (South Western Sydney Local Health District)
• Supporting Delivery of Safer Music Festivals (NSW Ministry of Health)
• The Online Choices Program (Hunter New England Local Health District)

Supporting our People

• Care Partners - Changing the Language and Culture of Care (Mid North Coast Local Health District)
• From Little Things, Patients Flow (NSW Ministry of Health)
• Koori Kids Futures: A High School Student Work Experience Program (Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District)

A Safe and Healthy Workplace

• A Holistic Approach to Staff Health and Wellbeing (Murrumbidgee Local Health District)
• Contagious Innovation – Fighting Influenza with FluPortal (Northern Sydney Local Health District)
• Psychological Claims Management Pathway (Hunter New England Local Health District)

Health Research and Innovation

• Achieving Targets: Children with Type 1 Diabetes (Hunter New England Local Health District)
• Electronic Support for Medication Review in Older People (Northern Sydney Local Health District)
• Dried Blood Spot Testing Pilot (NSW Ministry of Health)
• The NSW Overdose Response with Take Home Naloxone Project (South Eastern Sydney Local Health District)

Excellence in the Provision of Mental Health Services

• Empowerment Through Collaboration (Mid North Coast Local Health District)
• PACER – Police, Ambulance, Clinical, Early, Response (South Eastern Sydney Local Health District)
• Saving Lives: Priorities in Action (Western Sydney Local Health District)

Individual Awards

Volunteer of the Year

• Beryl Harris (Southern NSW Local Health District)
• Isabelle Wilson (South Eastern Sydney Local Health District)
• Nicole Scholes-Robertson (Hunter New England Local Health District)

Staff Member of the Year

• Kate Curtis (Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District)
• Leonie Parker (Western NSW Local Health District)
• Mark Brown (South Eastern Sydney Local Health District)

Collaborative Leader of the Year

• Albert Yaacoub (Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District)
• Cassie Carswell (Mid North Coast Local Health District)
• Wendy Machin (South Eastern Sydney Local Health District)

Secretary's Awards

Value Based Healthcare

• Improving the Care of Patients with Acute Back Pain (Sydney Local Health District)
• My Aching Joints (Northern NSW Local Health District)
• Renal Supportive Care (South Western Sydney Local Health District)

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