International Hospital Federation (IHF) announces winners of IHF Awards 2023
On 26 October 2023, the IHF held its annual Award Ceremony and Gala Dinner to celebrate excellence in hospital and healthcare leadership.
The exemplary work of hospitals from 26 countries and territories was recognized for initiatives that improve the level, quality, and sustainability of healthcare service delivery. The IHF Awards promote the exchange of good practices in key areas of healthcare leadership, environmental sustainability, and innovation. Finalists were selected across the seven award categories and earned Gold, Silver, and Bronze Awards, as well as honourable mentions in each category.
Our SALS team were shortlisted for the Excellence Award for Healthcare Workers’ Wellbeing and saw off competition from many other healthcare providers around the world to land the Gold Award in this category.
The ceremony took place in Lisbon (Portugal) at the Lisbon Congress Centre in front of an audience of over 500 international hospital and healthcare executives. The Awards Ceremony was a highlight of the 46th World Hospital Congress, which gathered around 1,400 attendees from over 90 countries and territories.
The Awards Committee, composed of health leaders from around the world and chaired by Dr Lawrence Lai, IHF Honorary Member, scored over 500 entries submitted from 43 countries and territories – a record since the Awards were established in 2015.
The scoring for the 6 Excellence Awards is based on five criteria: originality and innovation; intended impact; adaptability and scalability; scientific rigor; and clarity. For the Grand Hospital Award, entries were scored based on overall success in achieving the five dimensions of healthcare delivery (health service quality, patient experience, clinical outcomes, and health equity, cost efficiency, and workforce wellbeing), as well as the ability to sustain their success, and clarity.
The projects and programmes presented in each entry recognize innovative, impactful work in hospitals worldwide. In honouring these achievements, the IHF Awards are an important aspect of the IHF’s commitment to international knowledge exchange by promoting good practices that improve the level, quality, and sustainability of healthcare service delivery.
The full list of award recipients for the category in which Alder Hey SALS were shortlisted are as follows.
American Hospital Association Excellence Award for Healthcare Workers’ Wellbeing – recognizing excellence or outstanding achievements in ensuring the wellbeing and sustainability of healthcare workers.
- Gold: Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust (United Kingdom) and Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation (Taiwan).
- Silver: Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (Philippines), and Apollo Multispeciality Hospitals, Kolkata (India).
- Bronze: Saudi German Health (Egypt), Samsung Medical Center (Republic of Korea), and Emirates Health Services (United Arab Emirates).
- Honourable mentions: Emirates Health Services (United Arab Emirates) Intelligence program for healthcare decisions, Jubail General Hospital (Saudi Arabia), Children’s Wisconsin (United States of America), Apollo Proton Cancer Centre (India), Lusíadas Saúde (Portugal).
About Alder Hey SALS
The Staff Advice and Liaison Service (SALS) is an open access listening service available to all staff and learners at Alder Hey. The service has been developed and is delivered by Alder Hey staff for Alder Hey staff and is underpinned by the principles of person-centred compassionate care whereby staff are provided with the experience of being listened to, understood, empowered and supported to take intelligent action. Find out more in the below video.
A brochure presenting details of each of the Award-winning initiatives is now available online to inspire hospital leaders and healthcare professionals around the world: https://ihf-fih.org/what-we-do/ihf-awards/ihf-awards-winning-stories/.
The IHF Awards 2024 will be awarded at the 47th World Hospital Congress in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). The call for entries will be announced in February 2024.