Hunter New England Health Excellence Awards
The Hunter New England Health Excellence Awards (Health Excellence Awards) celebrate the best of clinical excellence, quality, innovation, improvement and outstanding achievements across our district.
The Health Excellence Awards feed directly into the NSW Health Awards, with an ongoing focus to meet the strategies in Future Health, a roadmap on delivering health care services from 2022 to 2032 in NSW.
The Health Excellence Awards support our aim to fulfil our vision of delivering:
- outcomes that matter most to patients and the community.
- a personalised and sustainable health system that invests in wellness and is digitally enabled.
Health Excellence Award categories
The Health Excellence Awards' categories are the same as the NSW Health Awards.
We refer to the 2 main award categories as:
- High-Value Health Care Awards (Team Awards)
- Achievement Awards (Individual Awards)
Key dates
| Entries open | 12 February 2024 |
| Entries close | 8 April 2024 |
| Finalists announced | 30 May 2024 |
| Winners announced | 22 August 2024 |
For more information about the awards program and event email HNELHD-ResearchOffice@health.nsw.gov.au
2024 Team finalists and winners
- Creating Sustainability Culture at Tamworth Hospital – Administration and Work, Health and Safety, Tamworth Hospital
- Gloves Off! Clean Hands. Safe for All – Infection Prevention Service, John Hunter Hospital
- Outfits to Fitouts – Allied Health, John Hunter Hospital and Rankin Park Centre [Winner]
- Little Ears, Deadly Care – ENT Outpatients Service, John Hunter Hospital and Audiology Service, John Hunter Children’s Hospital [Winner]
- Belmont Hospital Cultural Garden – Belmont Hospital
- A Video Paints a Thousand Words – Multicultural and Refugee Health Services
- Embedding Health Equity to Regional Settlement – Multicultural and Refugee Health Services
- Interpreting Oral Health – Virtually! – Oral Health Services [Winner]
- Dhuruulin Yabangka Yimamulin 'Leading the way to healing' – Mater Mental Health Centre [Winner]
- Farmgate Support Program – Farmgate Service
- Supporting Mental Health in Residential Aged Care – Older People’s Mental Health Service
- An Open Door: A Crisis Response to VAN in ED – Violence, Abuse and Neglect, John Hunter Hospital
- Enhanced Prehospital Acute Stroke Triage – Acute Stroke Service, John Hunter Hospital [Winner]
- Impact of the HNE Outpatient Telestroke Network – Neurology Department, John Hunter Hospital
- Mobile Dental Van Program - A Vehicle for Change – Oral Health Services [Winner]
- Morisset Menu Revamp: Elevating Consumer Care – Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services, Morisset Hospital
- The Family Care Cottage ‘Walking Group’ – Family Care Cottage Maitland
- Second Wave Overdue Surgery Recovery – Patient Services, Tamworth Hospital
- What’s in a Call? The Impact of Follow-up Phone Calls – Nursing and Midwifery Research Centre [Winner]
- Allied Health Rural Generalist Program – Allied Health Directorate
- Expansion: Diabetes Alliance Program Plus – Diabetes Alliance Program Plus
- Reducing Aggression and Violence within the Peel Sector – Administration and Work, Health and Safety, Tamworth Hospital [Winner]
- All Together Now: Coordinating Care for Kids – Clinical Practice Improvement and Innovation Unit - Children, Young People and Families [Winner]
- I can finally see my Diabetes – Integrated Chronic Care for Aboriginal People Program
- Reuniting Tiny Babies and Families in the Home – Newborn Services, John Hunter Children’s Hospital
2024 Individual finalists and winners
- Dimity Merrick – Paediatric Social Work, John Hunter Children’s Hospital
- Helen Adams – Palliative Care, Belmont Hospital
- Jeanette Lacey – Medical Services, John Hunter Hospital [Winner]
- Eddie Whitham, Multicultural Access Committee, Tamworth Hospital [Winner]
- Fay Smith, Volunteer Auxiliary, Belmont Hospital
- Virginia Slatter, John Hunter Children’s Hospital
External awards
These awards focus on quality improvement, research and partnerships. If you would like to add any relevant awards to this list, email HNELHD-ResearchOffice@health.nsw.gov.au