2024 Shortlist

The Irish Healthcare Awards Shortlist is now live!

Following a thorough evaluation by your esteemed panel of judges, they have identified the most innovative, impactful, and inspiring individuals, organisations, and initiatives across Ireland's healthcare sector.

Thank you to everyone who entered this year helping us reach a record number of entries, our dedication to improving healthcare and driving positive change in Ireland is a testament to the talent and passion within your community.

Best Use of Information Technology

Children's Health Ireland
Safer services for patients- innovative traceability of infant feeds, donor and expressed breast milk

Curie
Curie AI

HSE-Health Protection Surveillance Centre
National Notifiable Disease Hub -a new approach to disease reporting

Johnson and Johnson MedTech
Implementation of Care4Today Patient Education App

Servisource Healthcare
Isaac Care

St James's Hospital
"The Handover" - Ireland's First Student Nursing Podcast

Technology & Transformation-HSE
Making Specialist Services Electronic – Paper to Digital


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Cross Border Initiative / International Collaboration of the Year

Children's Health Ireland
Getting to the heart of the matter

PAIRS Group
Developing paediatric resuscitation training capacity with resource challenged healthcare settings

Salutem Insights Ltd & the All-Island Cancer Research Institute (AICRI)
Salutem Insights Ltd & the All-Island Cancer Research Institute (AICRI), The Health and Economic Potential of Oncology and Allied Digital Health on the Island of Ireland

The National Centre for Paediatric Infectious Diseases Rainbow Clinic Children’s Health Ireland and the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children
Development of an All Island Paediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Programme

Educational Meeting of the Year

Centric Health
Centric Health Nurse Conference 2023

HSE Spark Innovation Programme, Health Service Executive
The Spark Summit – National Innovation Conference 2024

Fighting Blindness
Retina International World Congress, hosted by Fighting Blindness

Irish General Practice Nurses Educational Association
IGPNEA Principles of General Practice Nursing Course

Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association
IMNDA Annual Conference 2023

Vascular Surgery Department, Beaumont Hospital
Beaumont Multidisciplinary Diabetic Foot Care Symposium

Women in Medicine in Ireland Network
WiMINLimerick23 Conference: ‘Challenging Conversations’

Excellence in Healthcare Management

Children's Health Ireland
The Development of a National Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Multi-Disciplinary Meeting (MDM) in the Irish Healthcare Setting.

Children's Health Ireland
Transforming Patient Scheduling : Impact of the Partial Booking Pilot

National Screening Service, HSE
Developing a Quality Assurance framework for Ireland’s screening programmes

Sleep Therapy Clinic
Home sleep diagnostic tests for children - An effective approach to address sleep diagnostic challenges in Ireland

St. James's Hospital
Critical Care Advanced Nurse Practitioner Service

Technology & Transformation-HSE
Making Specialist Services Electronic – Paper to Digital

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Hospital Project of the Year

Children's Health Ireland
Introducing Family Integrated Care to the neonatal units at Childrens Health Ireland

Children's Health Ireland
Starling Acute Medical Admission Unit: Development of a Short-Stay Model for Acute General Paediatric Admissions

St. James's Hospital
Critical Care Advanced Nurse Practitioner-Led PICC Service

St Vincent's University Hospital
Virtual Ward

Rotunda Hospital
Risk based Patent Ductus Arteriosus treatment program to improve outcomes in preterm infants

Tallaght University Hospital
Enabling a neurodiversity friendly environment in the emergency department

Technology & Transformation-HSE
Making Specialist Services Electronic – Paper to Digital

UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic
Introduction of nasal and skin decolonisation for all implant surgery patients using Bactroban ointment and CHG (Chlorhexidine) wash clothes, to reduce the rate of surgical site infections due to Staphylococcus aureus

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Innovation in Healthcare and Medicine

Dublin Northwest Integrated Care Centre, CHO9 and Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown
Breathe Easy, Beat Strong: : Collaborative Outpatient Approach To Cardiopulmonary Disorders

Department of Social Protection
e-learning modules for Doctors on Department of Social Protection’s schemes and supports for people with disabilities

NEC Care
Piloting Newborn screening for congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV)

LGBT Ireland
LGBT Champions

Sexual Health Centre
DASH Outreach Project

St. Gabriel's Foundation
Happee Project: a community partnership to deliver in-school interventions in physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech and language therapy in regeneration communities

St. Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny & HSE
Spark Innovation Programme Muma Postnatal Hub

St Vincent's University Hospital
OAsIS

Tallaght University Hospital
Helping Patients Live Well with Chronic Disease: The Smart CP Mobile App for Chronic Pancreatitis

Technology & Transformation-HSE
Making Specialist Services Electronic – Paper to Digital

The Pillar Centre for Transformative Healthcare
Implementing AI technology across the Mater Hospital Radiology Department

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Innovation in Primary Care Awards

Centric Health
Project Phoenix

HSE Addiction Services Dublin North City and County (DNCC)
Reducing Harm: An integrated social and healthcare care cocaine programme

St. Gabriel's Foundation
Get Going, Get Rowing

St. Gabriel's Foundation
Happee Project: a community partnership to deliver in-school interventions in physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech and language therapy in regeneration communities

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Medical Technology Product or Service of the Year

Allview Healthcare
Allview Healthcare product and service partnership with Vhi Healthcare, providing a national dermatology services using Teledermatology

MedWrite

Crumlin Emergency Department & MedWrite Ltd

MeTime
MeTime Digital Healthcare Solution

Mental Health Initiative of the Year

Linn Dara CAMHS
Developing ADMiRE: The HSE’s first specialist service for children and adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Irish Defence Forces and Trinity College Dublin

Novel, Cost-Effective, and Rapidly Deployable Treatment Program to Address Psychological Trauma

The Health Service Executive and the University of Galway 
Safety Planning Group Intervention (SPGI) delivered with people experiencing Suicidality in an Acute Adult Mental Health Unit

Saint John of God Hospital
YouthMed.Info: Co-design of a medicines information resource for youth

Shine
A small team creating big change by working to deliver a more compassionate Ireland where those affected by mental illness and stigma are supported and included in all aspects of society.

Sligo Leitrim Mental Health Services
Developing a Person Centred Mental Health Crisis Resolution Team

St Patrick's Mental Health Services
Improving the Management of Obesity in Severe Mental Illness.

Vision Ireland
Counselling, Wellbeing & Emotional Support Service

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NCHD Project of the Year

Children's Health Ireland
How to Order a Genetic Test: a Point-of-Care Resource for Completing Genetic Testing in a Paediatric Setting

Irish Defence Forces and Trinity College Dublin

Novel, Cost-Effective, and Rapidly Deployable Treatment Program to Address Psychological Trauma

Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital
Perinatal Optimisation for preterm births less than 34 weeks gestation at OLOL, Drogheda.

Rotunda Hospital
A neuroprotective care bundle to decrease the incidence of preterm brain injury

Nursing & Midwifery Project of the Year

CardiACT

Ireland’s first advanced nurse practitioner (ANP) led cardiac preventative mobile screening clinic

Sexual Assault Treatment Unit, Rotunda Hospital & HSE Spark Innovation Programme
Nurse-Led Integrating Forensic Photography into SATU Services to Enhance Patient Care

Tallaght University Hospital
Helping Patients Live Well with Chronic Disease: The Smart CP Mobile App for Chronic Pancreatitis

Tallaght University Hospital
Quality improvement on reducing and managing falls in an Age related and rehabilitation unit

St Patrick's Mental Health Services
The introduction of Virtual Reality treatment in a mental health setting

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Outpatient Initiative of the Year

Children's Health Ireland
Treating Waiting List Intolerance: The Success Story of GP-Delivered Allergy Clinics

Dublin Northwest Integrated Care Centre, CHO9 and Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown
Breathe Easy, Beat strong ; Collaborative outpatient approach to cardiopulmonary disorders

Clinical Specialist Team Older Persons (CST OP) Mid-West
Integrated care for the ‘new old’: Maximising the potential of community-based multidisciplinary teams

Peamount Healthcare
Strategies to address increasing demand for sleep clinic appointments

Southern Health and Social Care Trust
Southern Trust Aortic Valve Surveillance Service

Tallaght University Hospital
Cancer Care, a Hospital Without Walls-Pioneering more accessible healthcare. A collaboration between TUH Onc Dayward and the South Dublin Community Intervention Team

Community Specialist Teams Older Persons Mid-West/University of Limerick
Exploring the impact of a Hybrid Model (Face to Face v Virtual) of MSK Triage at UHLG

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Patient Education Project of the Year — Non-Pharmaceutical

The Dental Health Foundation
Caring for Your Child's Teeth 0-5 years of age

Children's Health Ireland
Co-Production: Using Animated Videos to Increase Health Literacy for Young People with 22q11.DS, and the Healthcare Staff that Support Them

Children's Health Ireland
The heart does what

Grafton Medical
Menopause and the City

Irish Haemochromatosis Association
Education & Awareness of Haemochromatosis in Ireland

Parkinson's Ireland
Different For Everyone

RCSI Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Debunking the Myths - The Science Behind Our Sexual Health

Saint John of God Hospital
YouthMed.Info: Co-design of a medicines information resource for youth

Tallaght University Hospital

Let’s Talk About Down Syndrome - podcast series

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Patient Education Project of the Year — Pharmaceutical

Arthritis Ireland
Breaking the Pain Cycle Webinar Series

Migraine Association of Ireland
In their Own Words

Sanofi supported by Etch Communications
Together Against RSV

UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic
Medicines Information booklet for patients following Knee and Hip Replacements

Patient Organisation Project of the Year

Children's Health Ireland
Co-Producing a 22q Healthcare Passport: Involving young people living with 22q11DS in Healthcare Solutions

COPD Support Ireland
World Health Day COPD Wellness Festival

Irish Lung Fibrosis Association
Establishing a Lung Fibrosis Public and Patient Involvement Research Advisory Group

Irish Network of Gynaecological Oncology
Ovarian Cancer Awareness

National Screening Service, HSE
Putting people at the heart of what we do – the National Screening Service's Patient and Public Partnership

Patient Service of the Year

Children's Health IrelandMinimally invasive Paediatric Interventional Radiology service with maximum benefit and minimal spend

Department of Social Protection
e-learning modules for Doctors on Department of Social Protection’s schemes and supports for people with disabilities

National Screening Service, HSE
Protecting the sight of women with diabetes during pregnancy

Nenagh Hospital Ophthalmology

Patients' benefits from the advancement of nurse led intravitreal injection services

Linn Dara CAMHS 
ADMiRE ADHD: Improving services for children and adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

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Public Health Initiative of the Year

ADMiRE ADHD specialist service, HSE Linn Dara CAMHS

How ADMiRE has improved services for children and adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Irish Cancer Society
Cancer Awareness, Prevention and Early Detection

Irish Haemochromatosis Association
Education & Awareness of Haemochromatosis in Ireland Campaign

National Screening Service, HSE
Together Towards Elimination – A partnership approach to achieving Cervical Cancer Elimination in Ireland

Research Project Paper of the Year

Children's Health Ireland
Diagnostic yield from cardiac gene testing for inherited cardiac conditions and re-evaluation of pre-ACMG variants of uncertain significance

HSE National Rare Diseases Office Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
Designing rare disease care pathways in the Republic of Ireland: a co-operative model

National Screening Service, HSE
First Irish data on the effect of HPV vaccination on cervical cancer

Scholarstown Family Practice
The impact of menopause education on quality of life among menopausal women: a systematic review with meta-analysis

The Health Service Executive and the University of Galway 
Safety Planning Group Intervention (SPGI) delivered with people experiencing Suicidality in an Acute Adult Mental Health Unit

University Hospital Limerick
SOLAR Randomised Control Trial

Sustainability in Healthcare

Allview
Allview Healthcare Teledermatology and CO2 Emissions Reduction with Maynooth University Business School

Irish Doctors for the Environment
Irish Doctors for the Environment

Oncology Services Galway University Hospital

Self Stratified Colorectal Survivorship

RCSI
Optimising Medications' Carbon Footprint in Ophthalmic Care

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Greening The Operating Room - Towards Sustainable Surgery

Trinity College Dublin
Clinical guidelines for environmental sustainability in dentistry

University Hospital Waterford

Recycling "it's the simple things"

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