Excellence in strengthening partnerships
This award recognises teams that are building or strengthening relationships with our external community, partners and stakeholders to improve the delivery of health care.
2023 finalists
Renal vascular outreach team – Fiona Stanley Fremantle Hospitals Group
This multidisciplinary team provides support and clinical care to more than 500 advanced kidney disease and haemodialysis patients, many of whom live regionally.
Through a partnership with WA Country Health Service, the team perform ward rounds, clinics, dialysis reviews, ad hoc referrals and surgery in regional hospitals. Each regional visit includes at least 15 patient reviews and up to five surgeries
This model reduces the need for patients and carers to travel long distances and stay in Perth, while improving local service delivery, decreasing demand on tertiary hospitals and contributing to significant cost savings to the Patient Assisted Travel Scheme.
Congratulations to our other finalists:
- Aboriginal ear health program – Rockingham Peel Group
- Peel mental health planning program – South Metropolitan Health Service
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