Meet Our 2022 Winners 

Congratulations to all our 2022 winners, highly commended and finalists and a big thank you for everything that you are doing for the Irish healthcare sector!

An Duais Mhór
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Winner

Dermview Dermatology
Dermview's advanced technology and services helps to rapidly reduce RCSI hospital waiting lists in dermatology by over 30% in just seven months.

Best Use of Information Technology


Winner
Clanwilliam Health

Socrates


Highly Commended

GuideDoc & Pharmacy Department, Saint Vincent’s University Hospital
 Simplifying access to the Medicines Guide at the point of care



Community Healthcare Worker of the Year

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Winner

A GP (Adamstown Medical Centre, Wexford)
All GP Administrative Staff nationally 'The Front Line of a Front Line'


Educational Meeting of the Year

Winner

Irish General Practice Nurses Educational Association

IGPNEA Dermatology Course


Highly Commended

Mater Misericordiae University Hospital

First European Society Human Genetics (ESHG) Course/Workshop on ‘Precision Medicine: A Focus on Clinical Utility



Equality Initiative of the Year
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Winner

Translate Ireland and the HSE Social Inclusion Office
 My Health, My Language

 

Excellence in Healthcare Management
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Winner

Peter McVerry Trust
 Peter McVerry Trust - Response to COVID-19


Highly Commended

NEC Software Solutions

Reshaping Diabetic Eye Screening Programmes post-COVID-19


Healthiest Company of the Year


Winner

North west Hospice


Hospital Project of the Year
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Winner

Children's Health Ireland

Making Intrathecal Chemotherapy Injections Safer


Highly Commended

HSE Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Hospital, Drogheda, Co Louth

Early Administration of buccal colostrum to preterm babies in NICU – An MDT project


St Columcille's Hospital
 Delayed Transfer Of Care (DTOC) Patient Improvement Lead


St James's Hospital
Using modern teledermatology, partnered with Dermview Dermatology to improve patient pathways to clear large waiting lists rapidly in the hospital Dermatology Department

 

Innovation in Healthcare and Medicine
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Winner

Children's Health Ireland

Ward-Based Pharmacy Technicians Assisting Nurses in Medication Management

Pain Relief Ireland
The "Biowave Clinic": Redefining the management of chronic musculoskeletal pain.


Highly Commended

Clontarf Hospital

Establishing a virtual home assessment process – 'Innovation at the virtual front door'


NEC Software Solutions

Innovation to the National Screening Service Pathway



Innovation in Primary Care
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Winner

HeartCare at Home

Dr Donal Bailey



International Prize of the Year

sponsored by:

Winner

The HRB-Irish Critical Care-Clinical Trials Network (HRB-ICC-CTN), at the University College Dublin Clinical Research Centre, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin

Working together globally to defeat COVID-19: The HRB-ICC-CTN Pandemic Preparedness Program

Mental Health Initiative of the Year

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Winner
Health Service Executive

The PARC Project


NCHD Project of the Year
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Winner

Dr Ciara Carroll and Dr Carol Norton, National Doctors Training and Planning
E-Portfolio for Non-Training Scheme Doctors

Highly Commended

Irish Emergency Medicine Trainees Association
TheCase. Report


Nursing Project of the Year

Winner

Clontarf Hospital
Preventing Leaks Continence Promotion

Highly Commended

Hamilton Park Care Facility
Reducing Hospital Transfer Thru the Use of First Line Intravenous Antibiotics in Hamilton Park Care Facility


Outpatient Initiative of the Year

Winner

Dermview Dermatology
Dermview's advanced technology and services help to rapidly reduce RCSI hospital waiting lists in dermatology by over 30% in just seven months


Highly Commended

Children's Health Ireland

Gastroenterology Active Triage (GAT) Clinic

Outstanding Contribution

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  Winner
Dr Larry Bacon

Patient Education Project of the Year
Non-Pharmaceutical


Winner

Galway University Hospitals
Long Covid Patient Education Group

 

Patient Education Project of the Year
Pharmaceutical


sponsored by:

Winner

United Drug
United Drug Pharmacy Webinar Series

Patient Organisation Project of the Year
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Winner

Irish Lung Fibrosis Association
ILFA’s online exercise programme for pulmonary fibrosis patients during Covid-19 and beyond

Highly Commended

Sjögrens Research Ireland – a collaboration between Sjögrens Ireland (patient advocacy group) and the Ocular Immunology Research Group (OIRG) at RCSI, University of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Inaugural Sjögrens Research Ireland Podcast and Knowledge Exchange Event in Partnership with RCSI

Public Health Initiative of the Year

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Winner

HSE National Health Intelligence Unit
Information and mapping solutions for pandemic response

Highly Commended

HSE Department of Public Health East, Vaccination Subgroup Team, Dublin South, Kildare & West Wicklow (DSKWW) – CHO7; HSE Health and Wellbeing, COVID Management Team, DSKWW-CHO7; HSE Social Inclusion DSKWW – CHO7; Safetynet Primary Care, Dublin 7
Reaching out to vulnerable migrant workers with COVID-19 vaccine

Novartis Ireland, the Irish Heart Foundation and Smart D8

Heart of Our City

Research Paper of the Year
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Winner

Children's Health Ireland
An Estimate of the Cumulative Paediatric Prevalence of Rare Diseases in Ireland and Comment on the Literature

Highly Commended

HRB Clinical Research Facility, University College Cork
Core components of frailty screening in the emergency department: An international Delphi consensus study

 

Response to Covid-19 by a Hospital, Patient Group, Doctor or Institution
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Winner

    Ireland East Hospital Group, Procurement Team
Response to Covid-19 by IEHG Procurement Team


Highly Commended

Clontarf Hospital
The implementation of a responsive COVID Rehabilitation Pathway at the outset of the Coronavirus Pandemic March 2020


United Drug

Ireland's Covid-19 Vaccination Programme


Student Project of the Year

Winner

Alexander Fives
SmoothScan

An Duais Mhór
sponsored by:


 

Winner

Dermview Dermatology
Dermview's advanced technology and services helps to rapidly reduce RCSI hospital waiting lists in dermatology by over 30% in just seven months.

NCHD Project of the Year
sponsored by:

Winner

Dr Ciara Carroll and Dr Carol Norton, National Doctors Training and Planning
E-Portfolio for Non-Training Scheme Doctors

Highly Commended

Irish Emergency Medicine Trainees Association
TheCase. Report