Home Improving health in WA WA Health Excellence Awards Award finalists

Award finalists

Health Heroes

The Health Heroes celebrates our frontline workers as nominated by the public.

This is your opportunity to thank a person who works within the WA public health system.

Name	Role	Health service provider
Dr Natasha Moseley	Head of Department Immunology	Child and Adolescent Health Service (Perth Children’s Hospital)
Errolyn Butcher-Hunt	Senior Physio Early Intervention	Child and Adolescent Health Service (Perth Children’s Hospital)
Trish Connery	Peri-Operative Coordinator	East Metropolitan Health Service (Royal Perth Hospital)
Annabel Ridley	Clinical Nurse Palliative Care	North Metropolitan Health Service (Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital)

Excellence in Caring for Older People

This award recognises projects that improve the design and delivery of aged care related programs.

Project /Team	Health service provider
Time to Think	Department of Health
Onco-Geriatric Service	South Metropolitan Health Service
WA Mobile Radiology Pilot Project	Department of Health, East Metropolitan Health Service
Geriatric In-Reach Service on the Acute Medical Unit in RPH	East Metropolitan Health Service

Excellence in Preventive Health

This award recognises projects that promote good health through raising awareness of healthy behaviours, preventing ill health, and improving the overall health and wellbeing of the community.

Project /Team	Health service provider
Smiling Starts Early Childhood Dental Program	North Metropolitan Health Service, Child and Adolescent Health Service, Health Support Services, WA Country Health Service, Department of Health
WA Health Nasal Spray Influenza Vaccine Program	Department of Health, Child and Adolescent Health Service, North Metropolitan Health Service, South Metropolitan Health Service, WA Country Health Service
WA’s tobacco and vape reforms	Department of Health
Planning and Implementation of the National Lung Cancer Screening Program in WA	Department of Health, North Metropolitan Health Service, South Metropolitan Health Service, East Metropolitan Health Service, WA Country Health Service, PathWest, Health Support Services

Excellence in Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs

This award recognises projects that promote positive mental health and support people who experience mental health, alcohol, and other drug issues to stay in the community, out of hospital and live a satisfying, hopeful, and contributing life.

Project /Team	Health service provider
Youth Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drug Homelessness Service (Momentum Queens Park)	East Metropolitan Health Service
Peer Work in Acute Care	WA Country Health Service
Kimberley Mental Health Drug Service	WA Country Health Service, Mental Health Commission
Peel Mental Health Taskforce	South Metropolitan Health Service, Child and Adolescent Health Service, Mental Health Commission

Excellence in Person-Centred Care

This award recognises projects that involve and engage with the community to inform the planning and provision of relevant, accessible healthcare services and/or education.

Project /Team	Health service provider
Meals on Demand	Child and Adolescent Health Service
WA Virtual Emergency Department (WAVED) and WAVEDkids	Department of Health, Child and Adolescent Health Service, East Metropolitan Health Service, Health Support Services, North Metropolitan Health Service, South Metropolitan Health Service, WA Country Health Service
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nursing team	East Metropolitan Health Service
Diabetes Team at Perth Children's Hospital (DiabHQ)	Child and Adolescent Health Service

Excellence in Safety and Quality

This award recognises projects that lead and deliver quality improvement to ensure safer patient care.

Project /Team	Health service provider
Older Adult Surgical Inpatient Service (OASIS)	South Metropolitan Health Service
Safer Stay for Patients with Diabetes	South Metropolitan Health Service
Simulation to Enhance Patient Safety (STEPS)	South Metropolitan Health Service
Peel Health Campus Emergency Access Reform Project	South Metropolitan Health Service

Excellence in Workplace Wellbeing and Culture

This award recognises projects that deliver support to our people, build culture and respect, and ensure a healthy environment for our employees and patients.

Project /Team	Health service provider
RPH Behaviour Support Team (BeST)	East Metropolitan Health Service
Transforming Workforce Safety Across Regional and Remote WA	WA Country Health Service
Aboriginal Health Champions Program Team	WA Country Health Service
Western Australian Paediatric Emergency Medicine Network (WAPEMN)	Child and Adolescent Health Service, WA Country Health Service, South Metropolitan Health Service, North Metropolitan Health Service, East Metropolitan Health Service

Excellence in Research and Innovation

This award recognises projects that demonstrate innovation in all forms – whether it’s a new way of thinking, a technological solution, clinical research, research project, or translation of research into practice.

Project /Team	Health service provider
Essential Medications for Palliative Patients Accessing Treatment at Home (EMPPATH)	WA Country Health Service
Innovation at Outbreak Speed: Closing the Distance Gap in Diphtheria Diagnosis	PathWest
Beam Me Up Bronchoscopy: A Robotic Leap for Lung Cancer Patients in WA	North Metropolitan Health Service
Western Australian Wastewater Surveillance Program	Department of Health, PathWest, North Metropolitan Health Service, WA Country Health Service

Excellence in Sustainability

This award recognises projects that deliver high-value health care.

Project /Team	Health service provider
Hospital in the Home Team	Child and Adolescent Health Service
From pilot to permanent: how evidence-based innovation became a sustainable health system reform for The Respite Centre	East Metropolitan Health Service
KEMH Green Ward	North Metropolitan Health Service
Electronic Medication Management Project	East Metropolitan Health Service

Excellence in Aboriginal Health

This award recognises projects that provide equitable and respectful health services to Aboriginal people.

Project /Team	Health service provider
Moorditj Wirrin Koolangkas (Strong Sprit Kids)	East Metropolitan Health Service
Moorditj (Strong) Start Program	North Metropolitan Health Service
Cultural Governance Framework Implementation project team	WA Country Health Service
Community health Aboriginal health team	Child and Adolescent Health Service

Excellence in Rural and Remote Health Care

This award recognises projects that provide equitable and accessible healthcare services to regional or remote populations.

Project /Team	Health service provider
Mental Health Transport Officer Program	WA Country Health Service
Improving Access and Equity to Renal Transplantation for Regional Western Australians in the South West	South Metropolitan Health Service, WA Country Health Service
WACHS Trial Centre	WA Country Health Service
Rollout of high sensitivity troponin I testing at point of care across WA Health sites	PathWest, WA Country Health Service, Health Support Services

Last reviewed: 14-09-2026