Adj Prof Jackie Hanson, Chief Executive

Jim McGowan AM, Board Chair

The Metro North Staff Excellence Awards are our annual opportunity to showcase the amazing work happening across our health service. The awards recognise teams and individuals who go above and beyond to improve health outcomes and make Metro North a great place to work, visit and be treated.

Congratulations to the finalists:

Excellence in Integrated Care

• Starting Well Initiative, CKW
• Pulmonary and Cardiac Telerehabilitation (PaCT), TPCH
• The Behavioural Emergency Response, Metro North Allied Health
• Urban Indigenous Respiratory Outreach Clinic (UROC), TPCH
• Dietitian First Gastroenterology Clinic, STARS

Excellence in Performance

• Helen Lambert, RBWH
• Elevating Performance through Safety and Quality, CSDS
• Precious GEMS, TPCH
• Metro North Public Health Unit
• Digital Commissioning Team, Caboolture Hospital Redevelopment Program

Excellence in Training & Education

• CHRP Education and Induction Team – An Innovative Approach, CKW
• Jaisil Punnasseril, CKW
• ASPIRES: Suicide, Self-harm and Overdose Prevention, Metro North Mental Health
• Five Things Nursing Podcast, RBWH
• Dr Kong Liew, Redcliffe Hospital

First Nations Staff

• Penny Dale, Biala AODS, Metro North Mental Health
• Aunty Sandra Blackman, CKW
• Elizabeth Bennett, Metro North Perinatal Wellbeing Team
• Kylie Medlin, Metro North Mental Health RBWH

Improving First Nations Health

• Quantifying Rheumatic Heart Disease Awareness as a Tool for Primary Prevention of the disease, TPCH
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Services, CKW
• Tara Denaro, TPCH
• IPEPA Project, Centre for Palliative Care Research and Excellence, RBWH
• Deadly Feet Vascular Outreach Program, RBWH

Innovation

• Hand Therapy Rapid Access Service, TPCH
• The Living Heart Project, TPCH
• Pulmonary and Cardiac Telerehabilitation (PaCT), TPCH
• The Focal Neurological Observation Tool, RBWH
• CAM Charlies Village, TPCH

Leadership

• Cassandra Hall and Rebecca Mann, Metro North Mental Health
• Dr Thuy Frakking, CKW
• Patience Kawodza, Strategy, Planning, Assets, Infrastructure & Strategic Developments
• Glynis Schultz, Community & Oral Health
• Kate Britton, Clinical Skills Development Service

People Focus

• Anna Sander, Biala AODS, Metro North Mental Health
• Right Care – Right Place – Right Time: Hospital in the Home delivering person-focused care in the Community, Community & Oral Health
• NeoRESQ: Close to me: Cuddle for end-of-life care during neonatal transport, RBWH
• Hot House Clinic, Biala AODS, Metro North Mental Health
• Online Knowledge Hub for Spinal Cord Injury Care, Clinical Skills Development Service

Values in Action

• RADAR and OPEN Pharmacists, TPCH
• Louise Preston, STARS
• Metro North Voluntary Assisted Dying Team
• Chermside Community Mental Health Service, Metro North Mental Health
• Catherine Todd, Metro North Virtual Ward & Virtual ED

The winners will be announced at the Metro North Staff Excellence Awards gala dinner on
Friday 15 December. Tickets are now available. See you there!

The Metro North Staff Excellence Awards 2023 are sponsored by QSuper and QBank.

Regards,

Jim McGowan and Jackie Hanson