Celebrating success at the WA Health Excellence Awards

It is the WA Health night of nights and there were celebrations aplenty as North Metropolitan Health Service took home five WA Health Excellence Awards at the annual event last night.

It was an incredible result, with North Metropolitan Health Service heavily represented in many of the categories. 

Congratulations to our winners in the following categories:

Excellence in Mental Health: Youth Hospital in the home, Mental Health Services.

The Youth Hospital in the Home team provide a safe, effective alternative to inpatient admissions by delivering intensive, short term psychiatric care in the home environment.

Excellence in Preventive Care: Hepatitis C Elimination Drive in Perth, Public Health and Clinical Excellence.

The Boorloo (Perth) Public Health Unit implemented a structured hepatitis C follow-up program in the community with an allocated public health registrar to lead the project.

Excellent in Workplace Wellbeing and Culture: Women’s Health Strategy and Programs, Women and Newborn Health Service.

For the development of the NMHS Family and Domestic Violence (FDV) Framework in recognition of FDV being a significant public health issue affecting both consumers and staff.

Excellence in Primary Health Care Integration: Complex Care Team, Women and Newborn Health Service.

For embedding a complex care model that provides multidisciplinary care for patients with complex needs across Maternity, Gynaecology and Pregnancy Choices services.

Excellence in Person-Centred Care: Clinician Awareness and Response Enhancement for Family and Domestic Violence, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.

The Clinician Awareness & Response Enhancement for FDV in the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Emergency Department has seen a 68 percent increase in the number of victim-survivors engaging with safety planning and social work, improved medical FDV documentation and enhanced care and experience for victim-survivors accessing SCGH ED.

7News Health Hero: Sue Morey Nurse Practitioner Sir Charles Gairdner Osborne Park Health Care Group.

Sue has spent nearly 55 years as a respiratory nurse and has watched the developments of respiratory medicine over that time for pulmonary TB, asbestos related diseases, asthma, cystic fibrosis and lung transplantation and interventional endobronchial procedures.

Excellence in Sustainability: Audiology Advanced Scope Practitioner Project, a collaboration between North Metropolitan Health Service, South Metropolitan Health Service and East Metropolitan Health Service.

This game-changing initiative - embedded at Royal Perth Hospital, Fiona Stanley Hospital and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital – empowers senior audiologists to independently manage suitable Ear Nose and Throat patients under approved protocols - reducing wait times, improving access to care, and ensuring sustainable use of health resources across WA.

Congratulations also to our other finalists, who all demonstrated their collective commitment to providing outstanding health care to the WA community.

They were:

Excellence in Mental Health: 

• Restoring Lives, Reducing Waits: A scalable solution for eating disorders, Mental Health Services
• Joondalup Health Campus Development Stage 2 Mental Health Unit, Mental Health Services.

Excellence in Person-Centred Care:

• Eating Disorder Specialist Services (Anne Wise) – North Metropolitan Health Service

Excellence in Research and Innovation:

• Sexual Assault Resource Centre Early Evidence Kit Project - Women and Newborn Health Service 

Excellence in Workplace Wellbeing and Culture:

• Cancer Network WA Wellbeing Group - Sir Charles Gairdner Osborne Park Health Care Group 
• Behaviour Evaluation and Review Team - Sir Charles Gairdner Osborne Park Health Care Group 

7NEWS Health Heroes:

• Ben (Dekun) Ng, Hospital Service Assistant- Sir Charles Gairdner Osborne Park Health Care Group
• Professor Jan Dickinson AM, Head of Maternal Fetal Medicine - King Edward Memorial Hospital

NMHS as a partner - Excellence in Preventive Health:

• Mpox Outbreak Response: Public Health

Congratulations to all our teams.