• Finalists introduced for WA Health
  Excellence Awards
• Four 7News Health Hero contenders
• Minister for Health Award
  recognises lifetime achievement in WA’s well being system

The WA Health Excellence
Awards will see 40 finalists vying for 10 titles throughout the State’s well being
system.

Finalists are competing for excellence throughout 9
classes – preventive well being, psychological well being,
person-centred care, Aboriginal well being, rural and distant well being care, analysis
and innovation, office wellbeing and tradition, sustainability, and security and
high quality.

The Health Minister’s Award will
recognise a Western Australian well being skilled’s lifetime achievement, whereas
essentially the most distinctive staff or challenge will obtain the WA Health Director
General Award.

A brand new
class launched this yr – the 7News Health Hero – has offered sufferers,
colleagues, and the neighborhood the chance to appoint their very own healthcare champion.

Frontline well being
professionals acquired virtually 100 nominations acknowledging the distinctive
well being care offered in WA.

Health Hero finalists embody Perth Children’s
Hospital (PCH) long-standing senior pharmacist Allan Jones, Child and Adolescent
Health Services (CAHS) Aboriginal well being service
youngster well being nurse Debbie Scott, PCH
oncology nurse Nicole O’Connor, and Clinical
Geneticist Professor Gareth Baynam.

Winners will likely be introduced at an award ceremony on Thursday,
7 December 2023. For the total checklist of finalists go to the WA Health Excellence Awards.

Comments attributed to Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson:

“The finalists on this yr’s
WA Health Excellence Awards, are excellent well being professionals who go above
and past to offer the very best take care of Western Australians.

“Their dedication and
contribution to our well being system means we will all entry protected, top quality
well being care.

“I want all of the finalists
the perfect of luck.”