All Right? campaign cleans up at awards

Like Matthew McConaughey at the Oscars and in true Hollywood fashion, the All Right? campaign cleaned up at this years Quality Improvement and Innovation Awards last week.

The wellbeing initiative, run in collaboration with the Mental Health Foundation, took out one of two Supreme Awards, plus the Improved Health and Equity for all Populations Award and the Consumer Council Award.

Sue Turner, All Right? manager says the All Right? Team was humbled to receive all three awards at the ceremony.

"It is a great boost to have our work recognised in this way," Sue says.

"This project has been very much a collaborative affair from its inception."

Sue says the project, a partnership with the Mental Health Foundation, has received great support from a range of organisations including the Red Cross and SKIP. She says staff from right across the Canterbury DHB have also been instrumental in the campaigns success.

"The focus of the campaign has been to put people at the centre of the recovery and support the wellbeing of Cantabrians post quakes. We are delighted to have the campaign honoured in this way."

The other big winners is the Medical Physics and Bioengineering (MPBE) team who combined with the Maxillofacial Department have improved patient outcomes for eye socket fractures.

From 2009 to 2013, eye socket fractures were repaired using commercial plates at a cost of about $1000 each and they had to be fitted in theatre. After a CT scan 33 percent of cases were found not to fit properly and required a return to theatre to correct, which caused further trauma, scarring and costs to theatre time.

The teams project involved creating low cost 3D printed models of patients eye sockets and using this to pre-shape titanium plates made in the MPBE workshop, at a cost of about $26 each.

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All Right? campaign cleans up at awards