ACHS QI Awards

The QI Awards are open to ACHS Members based in Australia. For all International entries, please submit to the ACHS International QI Awards.

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About QI Awards

Introduced in 1998, the QI Awards acknowledge healthcare organisations that achieve excellence and innovation in clinical care, organisation-wide practice, sustainable healthcare and environmental sustainability, service delivery and performance measurement.

Judging panel consists of an ACHS Councillor, an ACHS assessor and a representative from an ACHS member organisation. Judging is conducted externally with separate panels of three judges for each of the three QI Awards categories.

Clinical Excellence and Patient Safety

The Clinical Excellence and Patient Safety Award recognises innovation and demonstrated quality improvement in the delivery of safe, effective patient / consumer care. This award typically acknowledges the exceptional contribution of teams or individuals who show commitment to achieving the delivery of high-quality care and/or innovation to patients and to the continuous improvement of healthcare.

Previous winning submissions in this category have included:

Telehealth Increased Access to Treatment in Rural Areas for people with Borderline Personality Disorder
Fast Advice and Access for Intravenous Routes with Imaging (FAAIRI) Service
'Hep C is Everyone’s Business – An Approach for Virtual Elimination of Hepatitis C from South Australian Prisons

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Sustainable Healthcare and Service Delivery

*This category was previously named ‘Non-Clinical Service Delivery’.
The Sustainable Healthcare and Service Delivery Award acknowledges demonstrated outcomes in both clinical and non-clinical service delivery, improvement and innovation in sustainable healthcare and environmental sustainability. It also recognises demonstrated outcomes in non-clinical service delivery, improvement and innovation to patient / consumer services and organisation-wide practice, including services provided by community and allied health.
Previous winning submissions in this category have included:

Improving food service safety and food waste in Emergency and Short Stay Departments
Harnessing Byproduct Water: Advancing Sustainable Water Management in Local Community
From words to images: Implementing Video Interpreting

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Healthcare Measurement

This category recognises organisations that have measured an aspect of clinical management and/or outcome of care, taken appropriate action in response to that measurement, and demonstrated improved consumer / patient care and organisational performance upon further measurement. Healthcare measurement can include data collected from the ACHS Clinical Indicator program or other methods of monitoring consumer / patient care processes or outcomes. Both quantitative and qualitative data can be used, however this category must describe the initial measurement, the analysis of that measurement, the action(s) implemented, and the improved measurement(s).

Previous winning submissions in this category have included:

Healthy Beginnings for HNE Kids: from pilot to HNE-wide scale-up
Piloting a Power Shift through Food
Parkinson Inpatient Experience (PIE) Project

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Who is eligible to enter?

Entry is open to all current members of the ACHS Accreditation and Clinical Indicator programs in Australia
Organisations outside of Australia are invited to apply for the ACHS International Quality Improvement (QI) Awards
Application must relate to a quality improvement activity that has been implemented within the last two (2) years
All entrants agree to the publication and distribution of their submission(s) by ACHS
Projects that have been entered in other awards are eligible to be entered in the ACHS QI Awards 2026

Submissions close on Friday 4th September 2026 @ 5pm AEST (+10:00 GMT)

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