| Best of Health Achieving Excellence Awards 2008 |

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The Best of Health Achieving Excellence Awards were presented by the Melbourne Health Chief Executive Ms Linda Sorrell and Acting Chair Ms Marilyn Beaumont at the Melbourne Health Annual General Meeting, held on 25 November 2008.
Health Care Award Experience based design at NWMH, Sunshine Adult Acute Inpatient Unit: Midwest Area Mental Health Service, NWMH
Safety and Quality Award A Targeted Collaborative Approach Increases Organ Donation Rates within a Major Metropolitan Australian Hospital: Elizabeth Treasure and Melbourne Health Organ Donation Working Party, Intensive Care Unit, Emergency Department, Quality and Safety Unit and Clinical Governance
Research Award Bone Marrow Research Laboratories
Education Award Customer Care - Exceptional Customer Service @ Melbourne Health - Human Resources Leadership Team
Organisational Improvement Award Matching mode of transport to clinical need: Kevin McEwan, Manager Transport Services, Facilities Management
Chairman’s Award Prof Gavin Becker, Director, Nephrology
RMH 160th Anniversary Awards
Individual Susan Sherson – Nursing Education Service
Team Aged Residential Care Program: integrated in 2008, Ambulatory and Continuing Care
Nursing Scholarships
Lynly Aitken Travelling Fellowship Jamie Rutherford, 5 West
June Allen Award for Nursing Cathy Daniel
Jane Bell Scholarship Lisa Wilson
Val Humphery Memorial Award Louise Hobbs
Clinical School Awards
The Robert Andrew Stirling Prize Dr Mervyn Kyi
Christine Penington Prize Dr Paul Eleftheriou
Kenneth J Grice Prize Mr Malaka Ameratunga
Victor Hurley Research Awards
Dr Bruce Campbell, Neurology Registrar Dr Leon Worth, VIDS Research Fellow |