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BrachytherapyMake Smart Choices about the Costs and Benefits of Health Services: 2008 NSW Health Awards

As the costs of health care continue to rise, consuming a growing share of government and individual resources, greater rigour, broader community participation, stronger accountability and a solid evidence base are required to decide how available funds should be spent. 

What we are striving for in 2010 is a health system that makes the most effective use of the finite resources available and manages costs effectively to ensure financial sustainability. Services and infrastructure provided to meet the State’s healthcare needs must be carefully planned with community and clinician input. They must also be managed efficiently based on solid evidence of effectiveness and health impact.  Resources will need to be shifted to support early intervention and prevention programs.

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Winner

  • Wagga Wagga Mental Health Emergency Care Support Centre - Greater Southern Area Health Service
    The Wagga Wagga Mental Health Emergency Care Support Centre (MHECSC) is an innovative technological solution to address the problem of poor timeliness and access to specialist mental health emergency assessment and support.

Finalists

  • Threshold Pricing for Orthopaedic Prostheses - Sydney South West Area Health Service
    Threshold Pricing Project aims to increase efficiency and decrease overall expenditure by reducing the unit cost of orthopaedic prostheses.

  • Waste Not Want Not - Saving Platelets - The Children's Hospital at Westmead
    Project to reduce platelet wastage by 50% within six months through the development of innovative and sustainable strategies.

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  • Dr Who? Creation of an Area Health Services Provider Directory - Northern Sydney Central Coast Area Health Service
    Project to collect, verify and maintain accurate provider and service information in a single Health Services Provider database for the population of clinical systems and as an online tool to assist in service referrals.


  • Image Guided Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer - South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service
    The Illawarra Cancer Care Centre (ICCC) has investigated and implemented the use of gold markers implanted into the prostate to allow accurate daily image guidance of treatment to the prostate.

  • Images in Scope - South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service
    The process of research, testing and implementation to enable gastroenterology images to be integrated into PACS.



  • Microbiology Liaison Reducing Prescription of Antibiotics in ICU - The Children's Hospital at Westmead
    A weekday liaison round of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) by a Clinical Microbiologist aimed to improve communication and interpretation of laboratory results, appropriateness of antibiotic therapy and infection control.

  • New Direction for a Geriatric Medical Service - Northern Sydney Central Coast Area Health Service
    A new vision and direction for both acute and community geriatric medical care and to produce a better model of medical care for these complex older patients.


 
 
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