Primary health Awards

The annual Central and Eastern Sydney Primary Health Network (CESPHN) Health Awards recognises primary health care professionals and organisations that have provided exceptional service or an outstanding contribution to primary health care in the Central and Eastern region of Sydney during the previous financial year.

2024 Primary Health Awards

The third annual Primary Health Awards will be held at Centennial Homestead in Sydney on 29 August 2024 at 6.30 pm.

The keynote speaker will be Founder of OzHarvest Ronni Kahn AO.

Nominations for this year’s awards will open on 1 May 2024 and close on 30 June 2024.

Contact: For enquiries about the awards, contact engagement@cesphn.com.au.

Award categories

Award categories are for:  

• Excellence in General Practice
  Demonstrate quality improvements in service quality and patient care.
  

• Excellence in Allied Health Practice
  Demonstrate quality improvements in service quality and patient care.

• Excellence in Community Service Delivery
  Open to community service organisations. Demonstrate improvements in service quality and care focused on meeting community needs.

• Excellence in Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing Achievement
  Open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations, community based, private or a public sector organisation that have made a positive contribution to developing the health and wellbeing of their community in which they serve. Can include Aboriginal or non-Aboriginal persons. 

Award guidelines

All of the awards include individual or group nominations. The service must be located in the CESPHN region and activity undertaken during the 2023/24 financial year.

If you want to nominate another person or organisation for an award, please send their name, email address and contact phone number to engagement@cesphn.com.au and we will contact them.

The following criteria applies to the awards for:

Excellence in General Practice

Excellence in Allied Health Practice

Excellence in Community Service Delivery

• A brief description of the service/program/person nominated for the award (max 100 words)
• What was the health need or issue that the nominee addressed? (max 100 words)
• Explain the intervention (max 300 words)
• What were the measurable, demonstrated service quality improvements or patient/community outcomes? (max 300 words)
• Support material including images can be provided if available, but this is not necessary (max 1 page)

The following criteria applies to the Excellence in Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing Achievement:

• How did the nominee demonstrate respect, build sustained and inclusive relationships and/or create opportunities for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities or individuals?
• How did the nominee’s activity make a difference to reconciliation and healing in a culturally competent and safe manner?
• What is the nominee’s connection to the CESPHN region?

Please note that EIS Health Board Members and members of CESPHN’s Clinical and Community Council are ineligible to apply.

Three nominations are shortlisted in each category by an independent judging panel. All shortlisted nominees are invited to attend the awards ceremony.

The winners are announced at the awards event and receive:

• $2,000 grant towards furthering their work
• Promotion of their work
• Opportunity for individuals to join CESPHN’s Clinical Leaders Network or Community Council.

About 2024’s keynote speaker, Ronni Kahn

Ronni Kahn AO is a social entrepreneur and founder of Australia’s leading food rescue charity, OzHarvest. Ronni is a passionate advocate and activist renowned for disrupting the food waste landscape in Australia. She appears regularly in national media, serves in an advisory capacity to government and is a sought after keynote speaker. Her mission to fight food waste and feed hungry people is supported by some of the world’s finest chefs. Ronni is an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) and was named Australian Local Hero of the Year. Her journey is the subject of feature film, Food Fighter directed by Dan Goldberg. In 2020 she co-authored her biography; A Repurposed Life, which was nominated for an ABIA award for Biography Book of the Year.

Proudly sponsored by…

CESPHN’s Primary Health Awards’s primary sponsor is industry superfund, Hesta – super with impact.

Secondary sponsors include:

Thank you for your contributions.

Previous awards

2023 CESPHN Primary Health Awards Winners and Finalists

2022 CESPHN Primary Health Awards Winners and Finalists