Dr Danielle Ni Chroinin: We are delighted to have won this award, which recognizes not just the efforts of the ARIA team, but also how streamlined, integrated care built on the CORE values of collaboration, openness, respect and empowerment can improve patient care.
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Aimee Smith: We are very honoured to receive the inaugural Excellence in Aboriginal Healthcare Award.
We’d like to accept this on behalf of our organisation and acknowledge all the hard work of everybody that’s contributed to this work over the years.
Stacey Simpson: We’d like to acknowledge the contribution from our executive leadership team, Director of Aboriginal Health and the Activity and Performance Unit for their contribution to this framework.
We feel very honoured and privileged to accept this award.
James Wall: Thank you very much. I’d like to thank our Service Director here at Hornsby, as well as the Inpatient Services Manager who supported our project, as well as the multidisciplinary team at MHICU. Thank you.
A/Prof David Ziegler: I’m just so grateful for this award. It really is, it goes to the whole team.
This is an incredible team of clinicians, scientists, people from all around Australia, with lots of expertise, who have dedicated many, many hours to this program.
And this really is a testament to them and all the work that they’ve done for our patients.
I’d like to thank NSW Health for this award. I’d like to thank all the people from around Australia who are part of this program. I’d like to thank the patients and their parents who have supported the program and I’d like to thank the many different donors who have helped us get this off the ground and allowed us to achieve this remarkable outcome.
Dominic Dwyer: This award is really about a team and it’s a team across all parts of pathology. It’s the scientists in the lab, it’s the doctors who act on the results, it’s the people who purchase all the material, it’s the people who work out the logistics, it’s the information technology.
All of those things have been brought together and this is really about everyone working together.
One of the keys to success this year was really about forming an incident management team, which is about bringing more parts of the organisation’s leadership together to work out what to do to respond and I think that formation of a leadership team is crucial.
Dr Oliver Walsh: I’d like to thank all of the staff at the Royal North Shore Intensive Care Unit.
We’re honoured to work with such fantastic people, who strive for excellence and are motivated to adapt their practice in order to benefit their patients and the healthcare system in general.
Special thanks to Doug Chesher of NSW Health Pathology and data scientist, Helen Ganley, without whom the project would not have been the success it was.
Jillian Martnelli: Thank you so much. It’s great to receive recognition for the initiative that we’ve all worked really hard on over the years.
It’s so important that our healthcare workers can come to work with the knowledge that they are safe and that they are not exposed to a blood-borne virus during the course of their day.
This initiative goes a long way to making them feel secure and valued.
I’d like to also thank my core team for the marvellous implementation of the program and their ongoing support.
I’d like to also acknowledge the initial working group in 2016, who were involved in the project selection and initial formulation of the project.
I’d like to thank Elizabeth Grist who was the executive sponsor for the project and who followed my passion for providing a safe working environment for our staff and supported me the whole way.
Also the Staff Health and Wellbeing Service, who are always there to support the staff through the exposure management process and promotes sharp safety in their role every day.
Also my manager, Sue Buckman, who’s always supported me in my endeavours.
Also to include in that, support that we received was through HealthShare inventory team and also Lyndall Bradley, who was HealthShare Product Manager, she did a lot of the work behind the scenes for us.
I’d also like to thank our CE for Hunter New England, Michael DiRienzo, for providing the funds for this project because without that funding, we would never have been able to implement this.
Diane Woods: It’s been great working under the culturally and linguistically diverse local drug action team banner and being able to work with a whole range of people under that.
Rita Williams: Wow, wow, wow. Did I really get this award? But this only happened because we had good attitudes, lots of communication.
So they were the driving force behind me as well, to get the scan done and the annex study, kidney health study as well.
And here today, we’re still doing the gardening.
I’m not leaving the hospital until that scan is finished. Past CEOs and past medical doctors, that were involved in the research study in the first place.
And I will say not forgetting the Aboriginal health workers. They were the driving force too, behind me.
They always supported me, whatever I’d done, and I wouldn’t go anywhere else without them.
Rupesh Udani: I have worked across all of Australia on the organ donation awareness message.
There was one incident I recollect very clearly. One of the people came up to me and he told me ‘are you the person who is going to change this world about organ donation?’ I kept my silence, I didn’t want to say anything at that time.
But today I want to let everyone know if we come together as a community, work as a community, we can change someone’s world.
I wanted to thank all of our volunteers at NSW Organ and Tissue Donation Service, especially because they are instrumental for giving this opportunity to work in the organ donation space.
