Presenting the 2020 New Zealand Primary Healthcare Award winners
ACC patient safety award
Winner: 'Every Patient, Every time' - making you safer when you visit the GP/Pharmacy - Safety in Practice team - Auckland and Waitematā DHBs
Finalist: Health Navigator Te Waka Hauora through improving patient safety - Health Navigator Charitable Trust
Southern Cross Health Insurance primary and secondary integration award
Winner: True partnership in care: E-consultation - Institute of Innovation and Improvement (i3) at Waitematā DHB
Finalist: Prescribing of long term opioids: Clinical Pharmacists bring primary and secondary care together to uncover the real issues - Clinical Pharmacist Facilitators Team, Hawke's Bay DHB
Ministry of Health equity award
Winner: Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in the Pacific Population (HAPPY SKIN) - The Fono
Finalist: Making Independence Accessible to Blind and Low Vision New Zealanders - HabitGroup, Blind Low Vision NZ
Medispace good space award
Winner: Castlecliff Health
Finalist: Kelburn Northland Medical - Together under one roof
Research and education award
Winner: Osteoarthritis - reducing the disease burden - Longhurst Pharmacy, Riccarton & Longhurst Physio
Finalist: Rural Health Careers Promotion Programme - New Zealand Rural General Practice Network
Blue Star best supplier service, product or campaign
Winner: Sanofi Patient/GP Insulin Initiation Tool - Sanofi New Zealand, Atlantis Healthcare
Finalist: HPV Immunisation, High School Catch-up Programme - Seqirus (NZ) Ltd, Insight
Douglas Pharmaceuticals community or primary healthcare pharmacist
Winner: Leanne Te Karu - Pihanga Health, Papakura Marae Health Centre
Finalist: Penny Clark - NorthCare Medical Centre
Total Healthcare general practice
Winner: Tongan Health Society
Finalist: Feilding Health Care
College of Nurses Aotearoa NZ nurse practitioner of the year
Winner: Jackie Clapperton - The Doctors - Te Whare Hāpara, Turanga Health at Te Karaka Medical Centre, St John and Hauora Tairāwhiti
Finalist: Karen Hoare - Greenstone Family Clinic, Massey University
GlaxoSmithKline practice/business manager of the year
Winner: Adrian Tucker - Ropata Medical Centre, Cosine Primary Care Network Trust
Finalist: Erin Thompson - Health Connections
Green Cross Health outstanding contribution to health
Winner: Linda Bryant
Finalist: Nikki Turner
Pharmaceutical Society innovation in service delivery award
Winner: High Tech Imaging (HTI) Client-Centric Design Initiative in Primary Care - ProCare, Mercy Radiology
Finalist: Early recognition of acute deterioration in Aged Residental Care (ARC) residents - Project ERAD - Western Bay of Plenty PHO
Highly Commended: Medwise Clinical Pharmacy Service
Spark Health excellence in information technology award
Winner: Conquering the Perfect Storm - Orchestrating a Magnificent Response to the Measles Outbreak in Auckland - Total Healthcare PHO, Tāmaki Health
Finalist: Clearhead - free, online mental health platform
Habit Group best mental health programme
Winner: Wellness Support - Counties Manukau DHB
Finalist: EBPHA Mental Health Programme - The Eastern Bay Primary Health Alliance (EBPHA)
Highly Commended: Wellness Support Team Tāmaki Health
Best youth and senior health service award
Winner: Piki - Led by Tū Ora Compass Health
Finalist: Health Connections
BDO business achievement award
Winner: Creating Integrated Multicentre
Interdisciplinary Healthcare - The Southern Rehab Model
Finalist: KPT Medical Group - Karaka, Pōkeno & Takanini
Pharmacy Guild community pharmacy of the year
Winner: Longhurst Pharmacy
Finalist: Angelsea Pharmacy
ProPharma community pharmacy technician of the year
Winner: Samantha Burgess - Life Pharmacy Coastlands
Finalist: Alison Hayden - Pharmacy 547
Highly Commended: Arzhay Heslop - Huntly West Pharmacy
Medtech general practitioner of the year
Winner: John Elliot - Kumeu Village Medical Centre
Finalist: Glen Davies - Taupō Medical Centre
Highly Commended: Oliver A Samin - Royal Oak Medical Centre
Practice nurse of the year
Winner: Pauline Fitzgerald - Papakura Marae Health Centre
Finalist: Dianne Theobald - Newtown Union Health Service
Sanofi good sort award
Winner: Louise Shambrook - Taradale Medical Centre
Finalist: Mark Shirley - Southern Rehab
Highly Commended: Megan Cumming - West Coast PHO
ACC supreme award
Winner: Adrian Tucker - Ropata Medical Centre, Cosine Primary Care Network Trust
