QI Awards

The 28th ACHS Annual Quality Improvement Awards for 2025 are now open for submission!



The QI Awards are an annual recognition of achievement and encouragement for quality improvement activities, programs or strategies that have been implemented into healthcare organisations.

The QI Awards are open to ACHS Members based in Australia, for all International entries please submit to the ACHS International QI Awards
 

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 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:

  • Piloting a Power Shift through Food
  • Sustaining Improvements in Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Nutrition Outcomes
  • Taking staff influenza vaccination rates to a record level
Get inspired by previous winners

Ready to submit?

Read the 2025 Submission Guidelines

Submission Guidelines

Download and complete the Submission Form

Submission Form

Upload your completed form to the submission portal

Submission Portal (Australia)

Who is eligible to enter?

  • Entry is open to all current members of the ACHS Accreditation and Clinical Indicator programs in Australia
  • Organisations outside of Australia are invited to apply for the ACHS International Quality Improvement (QI) Awards
  • Application must relate to a quality improvement activity that has been implemented within the last two (2) years
  • All entrants agree to the publication and distribution of their submission(s) by ACHS
  • Projects that have been entered in other awards are eligible to be entered in the ACHS QI Awards 2025


Submissions close on Friday, 5 September 2025 at 5pm (AEST)

Take inspiration from previous QI Awards winners

QI AWARDS WINNER 2024

Clinical Excellence and Patient Safety Category

SA Medical Imaging, CALHN and Women's and Children's Health Network

Fast Advice and Access for Intravenous Routes with Imaging (FAAIRI) Service

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QI AWARDS WINNER 2024

Non-Clinical Service Delivery Category

Sydney Local Health District

Harnessing Byproduct Water: Advancing Sustainable Water Management in Local Community

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QI AWARDS WINNER 2024

Healthcare Measurement Category

Western Health

Piloting a Power Shift through Food


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