From more than 200 entries representing the best in Victoria’s healthcare system, 18 were declared the winners in the 2005 Victorian Public Healthcare Awards on Thursday 24 November.
At the gala awards ceremony at the Regent Theatre, the Hon Steve Bracks MP, Premier of Victoria, and the Hon Bronwyn Pike MP, Minister for Health, announced:
Chief Executive Officers and Chairs from healthcare organisations across Victoria joined the finalists to celebrate the dedication and achievements of all professionals who deliver healthcare to the Victorian community.
For an insight into what makes a winning entry, download a copy of the 2005 Winner and Finalists Showcase.
| CATEGORY 1: EXCELLENCE IN CARE DELIVERY |
Winner
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 Dental makes a difference: Dental care for marginalised high need client groups
Inner South Community Health Services Dental Program |
| Highly commended |
Faster Access to Stroke Therapies
Eastern Health with Metropolitan Ambulance Service
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| Highly commended |
COACH: A telephone support and training program for patients with coronary heart disease
St Vincent's Health |
| Highly commended |
Reduction of unexpected cardiac arrest and death among children in hospital with a medical emergency team
Royal Children's Hospital |
| CATEGORY 2: EXCELLENCE IN CONSUMER PARTICIPATION |
| CATEGORY 2a: EXCELLENCE IN CONSUMER PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT |
| Winner |
 Hospital and community: Working together to strengthen service provision for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients
St Vincent's Health |
| Highly commended |
Dementia care at Ballarat Health Services
Ballarat Health Services |
| Highly commended |
Health for Kids: Consumers and clinicians working together
Southern Health |
| CATEGORY 2b: EXCELLENCE IN CONSUMER INVOLVEMENT IN THEIR OWN CARE |
| Winner |
 Sustainable Farm Families: The human resource in the triple bottom line
Western District Health Service |
| Highly commended |
Getting mental health messages to young people: The Flipper Card
Barwon Health Mental Health Service |
| Highly commended |
St Vincent's: Victoria's first Deaf and hard of hearing friendly health service
St Vincent's Health |
| CATEGORY 3: EXCELLENCE IN SAFETY OF CARE |
| Winner |
 Austin Health Medical Emergency Team
Austin Health |
| Highly commended |
Electronic medical handover
Barwon Health |
| Highly commended |
Working hand in hand: Management of clinical aggression
Melbourne Health, NorthWestern Mental Health |
| Highly commended |
The St Vincent's Warfarin Awareness Safety Program: Reducing the frequency of harm to patients on warfarin
St Vincent's Health
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| CATEGORY 4: INNOVATION IN PATIENT ACCESS |
| CATEGORY 4a: INNOVATION IN PATIENT ACCESS TO EMERGENCY CARE |
| Winner |
 Accelerated Care Through Emergency Program
The Royal Children's Hospital |
| Highly commended |
The Chronic Illness Re-Admission Program
Barwon Health |
| Highly commended |
The St Vincent's Assessment, Liaison and Early Referral Team: Supporting people with complex care needs
St Vincent's Health |
| CATEGORY 4b: INNOVATION IN PATIENT ACCESS TO ELECTIVE CARE |
| Winner |
 The Southern Health model of cataract care
Ophthalmology Unit, Southern Health |
| Highly commended |
Alexandra Eye Care Service
Alexandra District Hospital |
| Highly commended |
Reducing hospital-initiated postponement for elective surgery
Western Health |
| CATEGORY 5: INNOVATION IN MODELS OF CARE |
| Joint winner |
 Changing practice: Developing a cost-efficient, outcome-rich, patient-oriented, overnight home haemodialysis program
Barwon Health |
| Joint winner |
 Kool Kids Positive Parents program
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Eastern Health |
| Highly commended |
Outcomes of implementing a tracheostomy review and management service
Austin Health |
| CATEGORY 6: INNOVATION IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY |
| Winner |
 TOPHATS – The Orion, Peninsula Health Advanced Technology Solution: An innovative project to improve the continuum of care on the Mornington Peninsula
Peninsula Health |
| Highly commended |
Clinical impact of the Infectious Diseases Electronic Antibiotic Advice and Approval System on appropriate antibiotic prescribing and rapid quality audits
Austin Health |
| Highly commended |
The Personal Digital Assistant program
Barwon Health |
| Highly commended |
Using Blackberry technology to support the patient care delivery process
Peninsula Health |
| CATEGORY 7: EXCELLENCE IN COMMUNITY RELATIONS |
| Winner |
 Men's Shed and Men Behaving Positively forums
Peninsula Health
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| Highly commended |
Ambulance in Schools
Metropolitan Ambulance Service |
| Highly commended |
Community Kitchens
Frankston Community Health Service
Peninsula Health
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| CATEGORY 8: EXCELLENCE IN CONTINUITY OF CARE |
| Winner |
 A best practice model of care for people with diabetes-related foot conditions across the hospital-community continuum
A partnerships in health collaboration between Doutta Galla Community Health Service, Moreland Community Health Service, Melbourne Health and the Royal District Nursing Service |
| Highly commended |
Improving diabetes care
Austin Health |
| Highly commended |
Care in context
Southern Health |
| Encouragement award |
The importance of the therapeutic relationship in effective case management
South East Advocacy and Support Service
Southern Health |
| CATEGORY 9: INNOVATION IN WORKFORCE DESIGN |
| Winner |
 Primary contact orthopaedic physiotherapists improving care for patients on the orthopaedic outpatients waiting list
Western Health |
| Highly commended |
The challenge of sustaining a rural maternity service
Bass Coast Regional Health |
| Highly commended |
Physiotherapy: A new look service to care for our community
Bendigo Health Care Group |
| MINISTER’S AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING STAFF ACHIEVEMENT |
| MINISTER’S AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT |
| Winner |
 Professor Hatem H Salem
Eastern Health |
| Highly commended |
Jenny Trezise
Peninsula Health |
| Highly commended |
Ingrid Plueckhahn
Peter McCallum Cancer Centre |
| MINISTER’S AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING TEAM ACHIEVEMENT |
| Winner |
 DeBug Infection Prevention program
Austin Health |
| Highly commended |
Aged Care Shared Care program
Broadmeadows Health Service,
Northern Health |
| Highly commended |
An integrated, interdisciplinary approach to patient care
Peninsula Health |
| Highly commended |
Clinical Practice Improvement Unit
The Royal Women's Hospital |
| PREMIER'S AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS OF THE YEAR |
| Metropolitan health service of the year |
 Southern Health |
| Rural and regional health service of the year |
 Ballarat Health Services |
| Metropolitan ambulatory healthcare provider of the year |
 Western Region Health Centre |
| Rural and regional ambulatory healthcare provider of the year |
 Upper Hume Community Health Service |
