Clinical Excellence and Patient Safety
The Clinical Excellence and Patient Safety Award recognises innovation and demonstrated quality improvement in the delivery of safe, effective consumer / patient care.
Previous winning submissions in this category have included:
- Fast Advice and Access for Intravenous Routes with Imaging (FAAIRI) Service
- Hep C is Everyone’s Business – An Approach for Virtual Elimination of Hepatitis C from South Australian Prisons
- Wandi Nerida: A new residential model of care to treat eating disorders in Australia
Sustainable Healthcare and Service Delivery
*This category was previously named ‘Non-Clinical Service Delivery’.
The Sustainable Healthcare and Service Delivery Award acknowledges demonstrated outcomes in non-clinical service delivery, improvement and innovation in sustainable healthcare, environmental sustainability, patient / consumer services, and organisation-wide practice. This includes services provided by community and allied health.
Previous winning submissions in this category have included:
- Harnessing Byproduct Water: Advancing Sustainable Water Management in Local Community
- From words to images: Implementing Video Interpreting
- Preventing Infection through Cleaner Hospitals (PITCH): An Environmental Cleaning Bundle
Healthcare Measurement
This category recognises organisations which have measured an aspect of clinical management and/or outcome of care, taken appropriate action in response to that measurement, and demonstrated improved consumer / patient care and organisational performance upon further measurement.
Previous winning submissions in this category have included:
- Piloting a Power Shift through Food
- Sustaining Improvements in Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Nutrition Outcomes
- Taking staff influenza vaccination rates to a record level
