Message FROM the acting Chief executive Dr Tamsin Waterhouse
message FROM the Chief executive Deb Willcox
Our stellar list of achievements in 2019 continues to grow, with Royal North Shore Hospital’s Northern Sydney Cancer Centre and Professor Anthony Gill both claiming NSW Premier’s Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research. These awards, which are hosted by the Cancer Institute NSW, honour the achievements of individuals and teams working across the cancer research sector and are the leading NSW awards in celebrating excellence and innovation in cancer research. Royal North Shore Hospital’s Clinical Trials Unit Manager Sally McCowatt and her talented team won the Outstanding Cancer Clinical Trials Unit award against strong competition from across the state, while the Australian Pancreatic Genome Initiative, which Professor Gill has been heavily involved in, took out the Wildfire Highly Cited Publication award. These awards are the latest in a series of successes from across our district in 2019, but success is not just measured in trophies. Our district has excelled this year, and I want to thank you for all of your efforts in making this possible. As we enter November, I would like to take the opportunity to invite you all to our 2019 Annual Public Meeting on Friday 22 November. This year our meeting will focus on “our patients, their stories”. We are constantly striving to improve the patient experience, no matter what role we
play within the district. We will hear real stories from patients who have been to our hospitals; we will hear what we do well, but also what we can do better. The meeting will be at the Kolling Auditorium, RNSH Campus from 2.30pm on 22 November. If you would like to RSVP, please email NSLHD-AreaCommunications@health.nsw. gov.au or call (02) 9463 1722 by Wednesday November 13. Speaking of patient experience, I was delighted to see our district continue its strong performance in the Bureau of Health Information 2018 patient surveys. The Adult Admitted to Hospital survey and the Outpatient Cancer Clinics survey returned very strong results for our hospitals and our district as a whole. If asked by friends or family, 83 per cent of our patients would speak highly of their experience as an adult admitted patient at our hospital. In the outpatient cancer clinics survey, 93 per cent would speak highly of their clinical experience, with 86 per cent rating the care they received as very good. These results are better than the NSW average, and reflect the tremendous work you are doing every day. For more results, head to bhi.nsw. gov.au/Healthcare_Observer
Deb Willcox Chief Executive Northern Sydney Local Health District
2 NSLHDNEWS | ISSUE 20| 7 NOVEMBER 2019
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