QuARRIES celebrate initiative and excellence
Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital celebrated the 2018 QuARRIES Day of Excellence with an incredible number of nominations, winners and attendees.
This year was the 22nd Quality Awards Recognising Remarkable Initiative and Excellence in Service – known as the QuARRIES – that highlight opportunities explored and improvements undertaken by RBWH staff.
More than 250 people attended the presentations during the day and more than 100 attended the evening awards ceremony.
There were 43 categories across the QuARRIES categories, allowing for multiple winners to in some categories. An Overall Superior Quality Achiever award was presented to the category winner with the overall highest score.
The winners are assessed and chosen by an experienced multidisciplinary team of senior staff and one of our consumer representatives.
In addition to the QuARRIES, Service Line Executive Directors get to choose a nominee to be awarded a QuARRIES Service Line award.
The complete list of this year’s winners is below:
QuARRIES Quality Awards
| Overall Superior Quality Achiever 2018 Improving Access to Endoscopy at RBWH Internal Medicine Services Winner – Consumer Focus 2018 Winner – Consumer Focus 2018 Winner – Consumer Focus Project 2018 Winner – Fostering Innovation 2018 Winner – Fostering Innovation 2018 Winner – Fostering Innovation Project 2018 Winner – Excellence in Leadership and Performance 2018 Winner – Excellence in Leadership and Performance Project 2018 |
Winner – Superior Quality Leadership Award 2018 Professor Joan Webster Winner – QuARRIES Day of Excellence Presentation 2018 QuARRIES SERVICE LINE AWARDS Medical Services Cancer Care Services Nursing and Midwifery Services Internal Medicine Services Mental Health Women’s and Newborn Services Critical Care and Clinical Support Services Surgical and Perioperative Services Allied Health Professions |
