I was so pleased to learn that the district has secured two finalists in this year’s NSW Health Awards. Congratulations to the intensive care unit at Royal North Shore Hospital and Mental Health Drug and Alcohol’s Child and Youth Mental Health Service. The intensive care unit at Royal North Shore Hospital was nominated for the Transforming Patient Experience Award with its project ‘Developing a novel intensive care unit follow-up service for our sickest patients. MHDA’s Child and Youth Mental Health Service were nominated for Excellence in the Provision of Mental Health Services Award with its project ‘Youth Suicide Response Framework’. These are wonderful, well-deserved achievements, and I wish both teams the best of luck when the winners are announced at the NSW Health Awards on Thursday 1 December 2022. We have been looking very closely at the recently received results from the 2022 People Matters Engagement Survey (PMES). The results were very insightful and addressed some key opportunities for improvement across our district. We are already undertaking actions as a result of the feedback and this will continue into 2023. It’s very pleasing to have received this important feedback which will go a long way to improving the working experience of staff across the district, so I would like to thank the staff again for taking the time to participate. The 2022 Annual Public Meeting is fast approaching, which is one of the highlights of the year for the district. This year the theme will be ‘Virtual Care’ and I am looking forward to highlighting so much of what has been achieved as we review the year and discuss all things virtual care. The panel discussion with medical and nursing staff and a consumer will give some great insights into
the role virtual care has played throughout the last couple of years and its place in healthcare delivery into the future. For those who can’t attend in person, the meeting will be available online from 3-4 pm on Friday 2 December at the following link: https:// bit.ly/NSLHD-APM-2022 NSLHD will soon be taking part in the United Nations initiative 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. The campaign aims to challenge violence against women and girls and runs every year from 25 November - the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women - to 10 December - Human Rights Day. As health workers, we have professional and legal responsibilities to promote the health, safety, welfare, and wellbeing of children and young people and to provide a health response to women and girls experiencing violence. As an employer, the district is also committed to providing every support to any of our staff who may themselves be affected by domestic and family violence. Over the 16 days, I encourage all staff, particularly managers, to become more skilled and aware of how to support staff experiencing domestic violence. You can do this by becoming more familiar with the policies or logging into My Health Learning to access the training available. Please see the intranet bulletin board for more details on the activities we will be holding during the campaign.
Lee Gregory I/Chief Executive Northern Sydney Local Health District
NSLHDNEWS | ISSUE 22| 18 NOVEMBER 2022
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