QI Awards

Congratulations to the winners of the ACHS Quality Improvement (QI) Awards in 2025!

For information about the winning submissions and other highly commended entrants, please view the latest Quality Initiatives Publication.

QI AWARDS WINNER 2025

Clinical Excellence and Patient Safety Category

Hunter New England Local Health District (HNELHD), NSW

TIATRA: Telehealth Increased Access to Treatment in Rural Areas for people with Borderline Personality Disorder

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QI AWARDS WINNER 2025

Sustainable Healthcare and Service Delivery Category

Eastern Health, VIC

Improving food service safety and food waste in Emergency and Short Stay Departments

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QI AWARDS WINNER 2025

Healthcare Measurement Category

Hunter New England Local Health District (HNELHD), NSW

Healthy Beginnings for HNE Kids: from pilot to HNE-wide scale-up

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About QI Awards

Introduced in 1998, the QI Awards acknowledge healthcare organisations that achieve excellence and innovation in clinical care, organisation-wide practice, service delivery and performance measurement.

Judging panel consists of an ACHS Councillor, an ACHS assessor and a representative from an ACHS member organisation. Judging is conducted externally with separate panels of three judges for each of the three QI Awards categories.

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

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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

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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: