HSE CEO Paul Reid said staff had showcased their “impressive skills and their can do attitude in every aspect of their work,” in the HSE Health Services Excellence Awards 2021.
The CEO said that patients and the public were “already reaping the efforts of staff to prioritise and improve patient care. This is what the health service was all about.”
He said the annual Awards represented an opportunity for staff to share their innovative and exceptional work. They promoted team work, facilitated staff to establish their service as an exemplar and helped demonstrate how staff were valued for the work they did.
A record number of entries – totalling almost 700 – were received this year, with 80 staff members nominated for their outstanding contribution. Entries featured both COVID and non COVID related services.
Describing it as a privilege to add his congratulations, An Taoiseach Mr Micheal Martin TD, noted how the country was now “slowly emerging from one of the toughest years our health service has experienced. I want to express how grateful I am and how grateful the entire country is for the leadership, commitment, resilience and adaptability demonstrated by health service staff – you have my admiration and respect and the admiration and respect of the Government.”
Commenting specifically on the awards, the Taoiseach said the “innovation and ambition demonstrated by all the projects submitted is emblematic of the quality of service you provide.”success.”
Health Service Excellence Award Winners 2021
Supporting a Healthy Community
Winning project: Supporting older adults to stay physically active during COVID-19 cocooning and beyond
Healthcare setting: Turners Cross Daycare Centre
Innovation in Services Delivery
Winning project: Community paediatric ophthalmology waiting list initiative
Healthcare setting: Grangegorman Primary Care Centre
Operational Services Integration in a COVID-19 Environment
Winning project: COVID-19 community testing integration with the National Ambulance Service and Defence Forces
Healthcare setting: COVID-19 community testing, COVID-19 operations
Improving the Patient Experience
Winning project: Traveller Health Working Group – St Luke’s General Hospital Carlow-Kilkenny
Healthcare setting: St Luke’s General Hospital Carlow-Kilkenny
Service Development and Innovation in Responding to COVID-19
Winning project: A pandemic response: the establishment of a contact management programme
Healthcare setting: Service Development and Innovation in Responding to COVID-19, Public Health
Innovation in Integrated Digital Excellence
Winning project: Digital rehabilitation during COVID-19: using a novel technology to deliver and improve care
Healthcare setting: Neuro-otology outpatients with integrated clinical specialist physiotherapist, Beaumont Hospital – RCSI Hospital Group
Excellence in Quality Care
Winning project: National Gestational Trophoblastic Disease Centre
Healthcare setting: Trophoblastic Disease Centre
Exceeding Expectations – Outstanding Employee Award
Anne Clerkin, Radiology Services Manager South Infirmary – Victoria University Hospital
Dr Avril Beirne, Consultant Geriatrician, Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown
Dr John Connaughton, Clinical Director, Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise
Lorraine Kelly, Project Manager Housing Co-ordinator, Adult Mental Health Services, CHO 2
Majella O’Donnell, CNS – Dementia, ICTOP Sligo
Mr Terry Boyle, surgeon, and breast care team St James Hospital
Vania Ndoma-Egba, Paediatric Physiotherapist, Primary Care centre Balbriggan
Yvonne Doheny, Clinical Nurse Manager, KIlkenny Mental Health Service
Maria Lynch, Clinical Nurse Manager, Rheumatology Department Our Ladys Hospital Manorhamilton Co Leitrim
Maurice Moloney, Clinical Nurse Manager, CAMHS, CHO 2
