2023 Categories
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An Duais Mhór is a unique category that cannot be entered, as the winner is chosen by the judges as the overall outstanding person, project or organisation chosen from all of the category winners.
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Best Use of Information Technology
This award is for the innovative use of information technology in a healthcare context to improve efficiencies and deliver better patient care. It includes systems that produce savings both in terms of personnel, revenue or patient time.
Crisis Management Response of the Year
This one-off award recognises the effectiveness, ingenuity and excellence of projects or initiatives, aimed at or created or developed by healthcare management, hospital doctors, GPs, nurses, pharmacists, other healthcare professionals in response to any emergency – the Covid pandemic, the rise in Ukrainian refugees, or any natural disaster. It also covers attempts and initiatives to deal with the backlogs created by the pandemic and efforts to improve or provide care where it had been delayed or postponed – exceptional responses to crises.
Educational Meeting of the Year
This award is for the best webinar/meeting of the year. This award is for the company, person or institution that has produced the best/most educational meeting of 2023 whether online or in-person.
Equality Initiative of the Year
This award recognises those companies, individuals, institutions and organisations that have strived to create a more equal world by encouraging those who would not traditionally have had easy access or entry into a discipline to participate fully in it. It also may recognise initiatives that have allowed patients to live a more equal and successful life by creating circumstances allowing them to fully participate in life.
Excellence in Healthcare Management
This award is to recognise excellence in healthcare management – particularly where it shows a demonstrable patient benefit. This award covers the entire spectrum of healthcare in Ireland – from hospitals to general practice to healthcare institutions of all kinds.
‘Management’ is there for the patient. It’s there to serve and help the medical team deliver results. The key thing for this award is a benefit to patient or doctors or both.
Hospital Project of the Year
For projects aimed at, or created/developed by, hospital doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other hospital-based healthcare professionals in a hospital setting. This is a project that may or may not involve a Covid-19 response. The winner will be a project that truly enhances the care a hospital gives and something that makes it demonstrably better than it was in terms of patient care.
Innovation in Healthcare and Medicine
This award is to recognise an innovation in healthcare that increases efficiency in delivery, improves patient outcomes, reduces costs or procedures, or introduces a new and effective service, treatment, or system that improves patient care. Innovations in responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, the recent influx of Ukrainian refugees or other ‘crises’ will also be considered where healthcare staff have innovated to provide services relating to the crisis.
Innovation in Primary Care Award
This is an award that will specifically reward innovations in Primary Care that led to better outcomes for patients, greater efficiencies in clinics, new treatments or methods that lead to better overall Primary Care - and most importantly, an innovation that can be applied generally across other practices.
Free entry
Mental Health Initiative of the Year
This special award is a direct response to the increase in rates of mental health problems in Ireland. This prize also flags that mental health has traditionally been stigmatised and underfunded in Ireland, while recognising efforts to combat this serious social issue. The award recognises that there is still much to understand and address in the area of the causes, prevention and treatment of mental health illness, and makes a statement about the importance of facilitating best international practice in mental healthcare.
NCHD Project of the Year
The best initiative implemented by an individual NCHD or team of NCHDs, aimed at quality improvement, education or training, enhancing hospital procedures or improving communication between healthcare professionals.
Nursing & Midwifery Project of the Year
This award for a nurse or midwife-led project recognises the effectiveness of initiatives with clearly defined results and outcomes, originated by an individual nurse or midwife or a team.
Outpatient Initiative of the Year
This award recognises innovation or excellence shown in an outpatient setting, for a project aimed at improving the quality of care delivered to this category of patients. This category was especially important in terms of maintaining services to patients during the pandemic, and there are still many challenges to deliver the backlog of outpatient appointments and resume services to their previous level.
Patient Education Project of the Year — Non-Pharmaceutical
This award if for both patient advocacy groups or any group educating the public about illness or health. We are looking for the person, institution, or group or organisation that has done the most to educate the public on a disease or illness without funding from a pharmaceutical company in their nominated campaign efforts.
Patient Education Project of the Year — Pharmaceutical
For projects that have been established or supported by the pharmaceutical industry, aimed at educating patients, carers and the public.
Patient Organisation/Advocacy Group of the Year
This award recognizes the work of patient organizations and their efforts to educate both the public and their own patients on issues related to their disease or condition.
Public Health Initiative of the Year
This award recognises the most important public health initiative of the year. There have been many initiatives to try to improve the overall health of the public. This award is for the greatest achievement in public health – an initiative that has saved lives and improved public welfare.
Research Project/Paper of the Year
The best research by an individual or group of NCHDs, PhD students in medicine or medicine-aligned science, or undergraduate medical students. It may be in the area of translational medicine research, or aimed at quality improvement, education or training, enhancing hospital procedures or improving communication between healthcare professionals.
Workplace Wellbeing Champion
This award is for the company that takes the best care of its staff’s health, mental and physical. It is a company that is actively involved in promoting health, has programs that ensure its own staff are healthy – mentally and physically, and has a CSR program to help others in Ireland and abroad.
Everyday Healthcare Hero Award
This is a new special recognition award allowing those on the frontline of Irish Healthcare nominate colleagues who they feel have gone above and beyond.
Entries can be accepted from organisations, patients, or colleagues by filling out the form here.
A selection of those nominated are profiled in upcoming editions of both Irish Medical Times and MIMS Ireland this year.
