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Showcasing the health services

HSE Achievement Award winners have been selected in each of the four HSE areas. They will go forward to a National Achievement Award event in April

HSE Chief Executive, Prof Brendan pleased that the Awards are tied in this year’s Awards we have an award Drumm says that the vast majority of very closely with the HSE six trans- specifically to recognise those who people who use the health services formation priorities. take up the challenge,” says the CEO. are very pleased with the service they “During the coming years, it is real- The HSE Achievement Awards are receive and the HSE Achievement ly important that we stay focused on sponsored by the Health Services HAwards are a great chance to say these priorities and indeed let go of National Partnership Forum. Health “thank you” to and celebrate the projects that do not support them. Manager has already featured some of commitment of staff who are going Transforming our health service will these winning projects and others will the extra mile. He is also particularly require leaders at every level and in be showcased in coming editions.

Finalists HSE Mid Leinster

Awards For Reconfiguration, Major programme) HSE /Westmeath. Changes To Existing Approaches SPECIAL MERIT Occupational Therapy WINNER The Phoenix Unit (designed to Service Equipment Recycling Inititative. increase the quality of life of residents with HSE OT Department Laois and Offaly. acquired brain injury) The Royal Hospital CERTIFICATE AWARD A Compre hensive Donnybrook. View Of The Service Provided For Patients SPECIAL MERIT Reconfiguration Of Over 65 Years Of Age Attending The Day Performance And Development DML HSE Hospital. . CERTIFICATE AWARD Community Intervention Team South Dublin (HSE) Award For Better Place To Work Winners in the Quality and Safety category for WINNER KARE, Newbridge, Co. Kildare. Support Services were the HSE Corporate Awards For Best Improvement/ CERTIFICATE AWARD Radiology Offices in Clonminch, Tullamore. Pictured Best Effort Department, Naas General Hospital. (L to R): Professor Brendan Drumm, CEO of JOINT WINNER A Reduction In Outpatient the HSE, Matt Corcoran, Regional Forum Physiotherapy Non Attendance. Award For Quality And Safety Office, Denise Fitzpatrick, Clerical Worker, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin. WINNER St. Joseph’s Care Centre, Longford. Clonminch and Larry Walsh, Director, Health JOINT WINNER Pre-Assessment Clinic For WINNER Ambulance Headquarters, Services National Partnership Forum Cardiac Rehabilitation Programme. Naas Tullamore. General Hospital. WINNER Support Services Clonminch, CERTIFICATE AWARD Primary Childhood Tullamore. Immunisation Uptake Targets The First In SPECIAL MERIT Naas General Hospital. Ireland. HSE Laois and Offaly and Longford SPECIAL MERIT St. Vincent’s Hospital, and Westmeath. Mountmellick. CERTIFICATE National Maternity Hospital, Awards for Innovation Holles Street, Dublin. WINNER Neurology: Changing The Way We CERTIFICATE Midland Regional Hospital, Practise (increased the number of patients Portlaoise. seen each week through extra out-patient CERTIFICATE St. Brigid’s Hospital, Shane. clinics.) St. Vincent’s University Hospital. CERTIFICATE Community Nursing SPECIAL MERIT Health Atlas Ireland. HSE Home, Birr. Health Information Unit. CERTIFICATE AWARD Neonatal Dis charge Award For Leadership The winners of the ‘Adopting and Adapting Support Group. Coombe Hospital, Dublin. Anne Coffey, Asst. Chief Executive Officer, Good Practice’ category: The Pulmonary KARE, Newbridge, Co. Kildare. Outreach Programme (POP) in a rural environ- Awards For Adopting and Adapting ment. (L to R) Professor Brendan Drumm, CEO Good Practice Popular Choice Award of the HSE, Marian Wyer, Louise Lordan, Rosie WINNER Pulmonary Outreach Programme Pre-Assessment Clinic For Cardiac Hassett and Larry Walsh, Director, Health In A Rural Environment (assisted discharge Programme, Naas General Hospital. Services National Partnership Forum

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innovation | awards

Finalists HSE NE

Award for Reconfiguration, Major Changes To Existing Approaches WINNER Optimising Attendances In A Mental Health Setting. Nursing Department, Mental Health Centre, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan. SPECIAL MERIT Cross Border Regional ENT Service In The North East. Hospital Network / Group . CERTIFICATE AWARD Improving Breast Cancer Care In The North East. Breast Care Team, Dochas Centre, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Droghed, Co. Louth.

Award For Best Improvement/ Best Effort WINNER Quality Improvement For Winners of Best Improvement/Best Effort category - Care of the Dying and their Loved Ones. The Care Of The Dying And Their Loved Back Row, L-R: Professor Brendan Drumm, CEO, HSE, Padraig O’Reilly, Ruth Gibson, Marie Ones In An Acute Hospital Setting. Sheridan, Bryan Nolan, Larry Walsh, Director of The Health Services National Partnership Cavan/Monaghan Hospital Group Forum (HSNPF) Front Row, L-R; Joan Kelly, Bridget Clarke, Carmel Sherry Cavan General Hospital. SPECIAL MERIT Making The Vision A Reality In Primary Health Care. Ballymun Primary Health Care Unit. CERTIFICATE AWARD Mind Yourself. Child & Adolescent Mental Health Team HSE Dublin North East. CERTIFICATE AWARD Restructuring Catering Services In . Catering Department, Connolly Hospital , Dublin.

Award for innovation WINNER Teen Parent Support Programme for Co. Louth. Louth PCCC, 3rd Floor Former Nurses Residence, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, Co. Louth. SPECIAL MERIT The Chatterbox Project. Speech and Language Therapy Department, PCCC, Lisdarn, Cavan. CERTIFICATE AWARD Family Support Services. Family Outreach Project Cavan/Monaghan PCCC/Cavan County Certificate Award in the best improvement/best effort category for the Catering Department Connolly Hospital. Back Row, L-R: Professor Brendan Drumm, CEO, HSE, Margaret Kenny, Childcare Committee Railway Station, Catering Manager, Connolly Hospital, Larry Walsh, Director of The Health Services National Belturbet, Co. Cavan. Partnership Forum (HSNPF) Front Row, L-R; Maurice Friel, Lisa Graham, Marian Heeney

Award for adopting and adapting good practice Award For Better Place To Work Certificate award WINNER Better Service for Heart Failure WINNER Enable Ireland North East Service. PCCC Dublin North East Department of Management. Heart Failure Service, Navan Shopping Centre, Navan, Co. Meath. Psychiatry, Our Ladys Hospital, Navan, Beaumont Hospital, Cardiology SPECIAL MERIT Travelways Commuter Co. Meath. Department. Centre. Mater Misericordiae University SPECIAL MERIT Development Of An Hospital, Eccles Street , Dublin. Leadership award Integrated Care Pathway For Carotid Catering Department, Connolly Hospital, Endarterectomy Surgery. Beaumont Quality & Safety Awards Blanchardstown, Dublin. Hospital Vascular Pathways Team. WINNER National Hospitals Office. CERTIFICATE AWARD North Dublin Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. Popular choice award Befriending Service. Goirtin 224, North SPECIAL MERIT PCC Dublin North East. The Chatterbox Project Speech and Language Circular Road, Dublin. Tara Suite, Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath. Therapy Department, PCCC Lisdarn, Cavan.

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Finalists HSE South

Awards For Reconfiguration, Awards for Innovation Award For Leadership Major Changes To Existing WINNER Squashy Couch (A range of facili- Ger Flynn, Chief Biomedical Engineer, Approaches ties available free to teenagers) Biomedical Engineering Department, Cork WINNER The X-PERT Programme In Adolescent Health Services, Waterford. University Hospital. Ireland (Baseline evaluation of clinical SPECIAL MERIT “Medical Emergency psychosocial and lifestyle outcomes with Team. South Infirmary Victoria Hospital. Award for Quality And Safety practice nurses or GPs followed by group CERTIFICATE AWARD Improving Young South Infirmary Victoria Hospital. education programme. Community People’s Health. Youth Health Services Cork. Dietitian Eye, Ear &Throat Hospital. Popular Choice Award SPECIAL MERIT A Hospital Merger Awards For Adopting and Adapting Rehabilitation Unit, Bantry General Pathway To A Better Service. Good Practice Hospital. South Tipperary General Hospital. WINNER Radiation Therapist-Led Review CERTIFICATE AWARD Pigmented Lesion Clinics In Radiotherapy. Clinic. South Infirmary Victoria Hospital. (These clinics were traditionally operated by medics) Awards For Best Improvement/ SPECIAL MERIT EIQA Sapphire Award Best Effort Winner. Catering Department, St. WINNER The Development And Stephen’s Hospital. Evaluation Of A Strategic Multidisciplinary CERTIFICATE AWARD Drop-In Psychology Approach To Improving The Use Of Service, Kilkenny Fibrinolytic Agents In Acute ST Elevation Myocardial Infection (STEMI). South Award For Better Place To Work Infirmary Victoria Hospital. WINNER Biomedical Engineering SPECIAL MERIT “From Concept To Department (The first hospital department in Winners of the HSE Achievements awards in the category “ Better Place to Work Award” Realisa tion”– The Building Of A the country to achieve CPD accreditation The Winners were Biomedical Engineering Community Based Audiological Service. through Engineers Ireland) Cork University Department – Cork University Hospital. Back Waterford Regional Hospital. Hospital. row, L to R: Brian O’Connell, Bernard Murphy, CERTIFICATE AWARD Accredited As SPECIAL MERIT Employee Relations Ronan Nagle. Front Row, L to R: Ann Doherty A Practice Development Unit By Department. HSE South (Director of NHO) Nelius O’Sullivan, Ger Flynn The University Of Leeds. Bandon CERTIFICATE AWARD Castletownbere and Larry Walsh,( Director Health Services Community Hospital. Community Hospital. National Partnership Forum)

Finalists HSE West

Awards For Reconfiguration, Major SPECIAL MERIT “First Heartsafe Schools in Department, Merlin Park University Changes To Existing Approaches Ireland” Initiative. Portiuncula Hospital, Hospital Galway. WINNER HSE HR shared services. Garda Ballinasloe. SPECIAL MERIT Catering Department, Vetting Liaison Office GVLO (Centralised pro- CERTIFICATE AWARD Improving Drug University Hospital, Galway. cessing of Garden vetting applications for Safety For Out Patients. Pharmacy prospective HSE employees) Department, Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe. Popular Choice Award SPECIAL MERIT Reduction Of Sympto- WINNER The Melting Pot, Roscommon. matic Breast Out-Patient Waiting Times To Awards For Adopting and Adapting Meet International Best Practice. University Good Practice Hospital, Galway WINNER Medical Records Management CERTIFICATE AWARD “Bridging The Gap” Project. Sligo General Hospital. Intermediate Care Services, Co. SPECIAL MERIT Empowering Staff Roscommon. Galway University Hospitals Through Engagement. Loughrea Transfer of Orthopaedic Trauma. Community Day Hospital. CERTIFICATE AWARD Establishment Of Awards For Best Improvement/Best Effort Cardio-Thoracic Service in West of Ireland. WINNER Waste Matters In The Acute Setting (Managing waste in a more effective and Award For Better Place To Work environmentally friendly manner.) Sligo WINNER Equality And Diversity In Galway General Hospital. University Hospitals. SPECIAL MERIT Waste Management And SPECIAL MERIT Staff Wellbeing Initiative. Recyling. St. John’s Hospital, Sligo. Roscommon Primary Community and Medical Records Management Project, Sligo CERTIFICATE AWARD Innovative Cancer Continuing Care General Hospital was the winner in the Adopting Treatment In The West Of Ireland. Depart- and Adapting Good Practice category in the HSE West Achievement Awards. Back row: Martin Mc ment of Radiation Oncology, Galway Award For Leadership Donald, National Director of Human Resources, University Hospitals. WINNER Helen Harney, Portiuncula HSE; Domhnall Mc Loughlin, Assistant General Hospital, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway for work in Manager, Sligo General Hospital; Pat Reidy Sligo Awards for Innovation “First Heartsafe Schools in Ireland” Initiative. General Hospital; Larry Walsh, Front Row: Sue WINNER The Melting Pot, Roscommon (a Watters, Medical Records Manager; Mary Conlon, partnership of local development agencies, Award for Quality And Safety Clinical Nurse Manager 3; Jim Verdon, Medical voluntary sector support services and the HSE.) WINNER Financial Systems Team, Finance Records Archives Officer, Sligo General Hospital 36