The 2016 Hutt Valley DHB Quality Awards – Striving for Excellence ceremony was held on 18 November with guest speaker David Galler, who is an Intensive Care Uunit specialist from Middlemore Hospital .
The awards are open to HVDHB staff and our primary care partners in the Hutt Valley, and are designed to encourage, recognise and celebrate innovative quality improvements within the DHB and primary healthcare across the Hutt Valley Health System. Our DHB feels privileged to have the opportunity to formally acknowledge the work that supports the continued advancement of a positive quality and safety culture.
Our judges were thrilled with the number and quality of the nominations from all areas of the DHB and across primary care in Hutt Valley. Congratulations to all the winners in this year’s Quality Awards. At the ceremony on Friday night the following people / teams received an award:
Excellence in Clinical Care
Angela Corn, Infection Prevention and Control, HVDHB
Vera Sullivan and Elaine Burn, Older Persons Mental Health & MAPU
Excellence in Community Health & Wellbeing
Bee Healthy Regional Dental Service, Bee Healthy Early Intervention and Prevention Team and Dental Therapists
Pasifika Choice Team, Pacific Health Service, Hutt Valley – Obesity Prevention
Excellence in Process & Systems Improvement
Hutt Union & Community Health Services, Sally Nicholl and Linda Metuariki on behalf of the team at HUCHS
Debbie Jennings and Claire Underwood, HVDHB Steam Cleaning Team
Excellence in the Workplace
Andrew Wordsworth, HVDHB, Medical Ward
Infection Prevention & Control Team, HVDHB
Excellence in Research
William Taylor
Excellence in Integration
3D HealthPathways
Bee Healthy Regional Dental Service and Hutt Valley Governance Group
HVDHB Chief Executive's Award
Hutt Hospital Emergency Department
Te Awakairangi Health Network Chief Executive's Award
Tu Kotahi Māori Asthma Trust, Kokiri Marae (led by Cheryl Davies)
