CANTERBURY DHB QUALITY & PATIENT SAFETY COUNCIL

2009 Canterbury DHB Quality Improvement and Innovation Awards

The seventh annual Canterbury DHB Quality Improvement and Innovation Awards attracted 15 projects (detailed in the 2009 Canterbury DHB Quality Improvement and Innovation Awards Project Entrees Summary Booklet), which were honoured at an awards ceremony on 25th November 2009. This year the awards were broken into three categories; 1) Community Based Service, 2) Hospital and Specialist Service, and 3) Systems Improvement. To access any copies of the projects listed below, please contact Gillian Pearce.

The Winners were as follows:

Supreme Award Winner
The Active Life Programme, Activelinks, Comcare Charitable Trust
Community Based Service Category Winner The Active Life Programme, Activelinks, Comcare Charitable Trust
Runner-up Community Stroke Rehabilitation Service: Service Rollout, Community Stroke Rehabilitation Service, The Princess Margaret Hospital
Hospital and Specialist Service Category Winner Improving Communication for People with Parkinson's Disease: Implementing the LSVT Programme, Riley Community Rehabilitation Service, The Princess Margaret Hospital
Runner-up The Advanced Trauma Simulation Course: "Training the Team", Christchurch Hospital Trauma Committee, Christchurch Hospital
Runner-up The Power of Occupation: Adventure Based Learning within Forensic Mental Health, Te Whare Mauriora, Hillmorton Hospital
Systems Improvement Category Winner Trialling the Choice and Partnership Approach: Right Time, Right Intervention with the Right People, Child and Family Specialty Service, Whakatata House
Runner-up Improving Sedation Management of Critically Ill Patients, Medical Physics and Bioengineering and Intensive Care Unit, Christchurch Hospital
Judges Award Winner Re-Engineering Clinical Radiology, Radiology Department and Business Development Unit, Christchurch Hospital
Highly Commended Award
Maternity Outpatient Department Project: The Women's Path, Women's Outpatient Department, Christchurch Women's Hospital
Y BIC in the Waimak: The Rural Canterbury PHO Youth Brief Intervention Coordination (YBIC) Service, Rural Canterbury PHO

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Other entrants from the Canterbury DHB were:

The Vascular Surgical Database: Improving the Flow in Vascular Surgery, Department of Vascular, Endovascular and Transplant Surgery, Christchurch Hospital
Development of a Clinical Pathway for Patients with Cellulitis, Department of Infectious Diseases, Christchurch Hospital
Clinical Resource Manual: Orange Book, Community Dental Service
Whānau Ora Assessment Tool, Ngā Ratonga Hauora Māori
"Introduction of Insulin" Classes: Flexible Approach to Insulin Initiation, Diabetes Centre, Christchurch Hospital
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