2007 Winners

Supreme Award

Mangere Healthy kai – making the healthy choice the easy choice
Auckland Regional Public Health Service Mangere Healthy Kai is a programme that promotes ready-to-eat healthy choices in Auckland’s Mangere town centre, to help combat obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Excellence in Primary Health Care

Mental Health Brief Intervention Service (MHBIS) in Primary Care
South Link Health A new South Canterbury service is providing fast, effective and accessible mental health support to clients within primary care.

Excellence in Quality Improvement

Colorectal cancer programme helps journey through health system
Waitemata DHB Waitemata District Health Board’s Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Service Improvement Programme is improving patients’ experiences by increasing their choice and access to services and reducing unnecessary delays.

Excellence in Prevention

Mangere Healthy kai – making the healthy choice the easy choice
Auckland Regional Public Health Service

Excellence in Rehabilitation

Improving Stable Housing options for people with mental illness (Friendly Landlord Housing Initiative).
Hawke’s Bay DHB The Friendly Landlord Housing Initiative in Hawke’s Bay is increasing the chances that people with ongoing mental health issues will be housed in good quality homes without having to spend a long time on a waiting list.

Excellence in Treatment

LIFE: A personal wellness programme for older people
ElderCare New Zealand LIFE is a personal wellbeing programme, which uses goal setting and simple physical exercise to improve the quality of life and independence of the clients of the aged care company, Eldercare New Zealand.

Innovation

ARANZ Medical Silhouette Mobile, Advancing Wound Assessment into the Digital Era
ARANZ Medical Limited Digital photography will soon be used throughout New Zealand to track the progress of wound healing. District nurses, GPs and other health care professionals will no longer have to rely on inexact methods for assessing the healing progress of ulcers and other skin wounds.

Process Improvement

Nurse Led Preadmission - Gynaecology
Waikato DHB An innovative rethink of the preadmission of elective gynaecological patients at Waikato Hospital has, over six months, halved the number of operations cancelled because of insufficient preoperative workup.

People’s Choice

Keep Me Smiling, Oral Health Project
Improving the oral health of under fives in Hawke's Bay 'Keep me Smiling' is an oral health project delivered by practice nurses at two Hawke's Bay medical centres. During its first 20 months, 300 youngsters have been pre-enrolled in dental clinics for their free pre-school dental check.