The Australasian Ambulance Awards for Excellence have been run by the Council of Ambulance Authorities for 16 years with the aim to recognise the hard and innovative work of member ambulance services from Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. The awards are designed to encourage innovation and to enable services to share their work and learn from each other. The awards are independently judged by a panel of industry-respected judges from across the globe.
2023 CAA Awards for Excellence
Submit your entries hereView the entry guidelines here
Key dates November 1st 2022 - Award Nominations Open March 20th 2023 - Award Nominations Close May 31st 2023 - Finalists Announced August 3rd 2023 - Winners Announced at the CAA Awards for Excellence Gala Dinner at Howard Smith Wharves in Brisbane, Australia. | ![]() |
2022 CAA Awards for Excellence Photo Gallery
Flick through our 2022 CAA Awards for Excellence Publication to learn about the many incredible project undertaken this passed year.
| Star Award WinnerExcellence in Technology - Ambulance Victoria Real-Time COVID-19 Data Linkage to Inform the Pandemic Response |
Excellence in Technology WINNERAmbulance Victoria: Real-Time COVID-19 Data Linkage to Inform the Pandemic Response FinalistsNSW Ambulance: Towards Net Zero Carbon Emissions Ambulance Victoria: Secondary Triage Work from Home | ![]() |
Excellence in Clinical Practice WINNERSA Ambulance Service: Clinical Hub Health Navigation Role Integration into SA Virtual Care Services FinalistsNSW Ambulance: Spotlight on Aeromedical - part of an Integrated response to the longest prolonged National emergency in history St John Ambulance Australia (NT): Clinical Practice Manual |
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Excellence in Staff Development WINNERAmbulance Victoria: Graduate Ambulance Paramedic Improvement Program FinalistsAmbulance Victoria: Shocktober Ambulance Victoria: COVID-19 Surge Workforce | ![]() |
Excellence in Patient Care WINNERSt John WA: Virtual Emergency Medicine FinalistsNSW Ambulance: Clinical Response to a Global Pandemic | ![]() |
Excellence in Leadership WINNERQueensland Ambulance Service: Crisis Leadership - A Leadership Excellence Case Study FinalistsSA Ambulance Service: National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards Program St John New Zealand: Double Crewing Project | ![]() |
Excellence in Mental Health & Wellbeing WINNERNSW Ambulance: Medic Fit FinalistsAmbulance Tasmania: 'MyPulse' Health and Wellbeing Program for Tasmanian Emergency Services Workers Ambulance Victoria: Telemental HeaLth Pilot - TeleHELP) | ![]() |
Professor Vivienne Tippett PhD, OAMActing Head of School, School of Clinical Services, Queensland University of Technology. Fellow at QLD Academy of Arts & Science, and fellow at at Jamieson Trauma Institute, RBWH. | Professor Peter CameronAcademic Director of the Alfred Emergency and Trauma Centre and Professor of Emergency Medicine Monash University. | Norma LaneClinical Governance Lead for the New Zealand Blood and Organ Donation Service. | Steve IrvingExecutive Officer at the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE) | Freddy Lippert MDAssociate professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Chair of the European Emergency Medical Services and CEO of Copenhagen EMS. | Tony AhernRetired CEO and current board member of St John WA. Current board member of WA Primary Health Alliance.
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2021Star Award WinnerQueensland Ambulance Service Stroke Prehospital Informed Decision-Making using EEG Recordings The ‘Stroke Prehospital Informed Decision-making using Electroencephalography Recordings’ (SPIDER) study aimed to take the first step toward investigating a novel technological answer to the prehospital identification of stroke. The main objectives of the project were to investigate the ability of Electroencephalography markers to enable pre-hospital distinction between ischemic stroke cases and all other patients with neurologic symptoms, as well as to investigate distinction between large vessel versus non-large vessel ischaemic stroke cases. | ![]() |
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2019Star Award WinnerAmbulance Victoria Analytics Uplift Project To better support operational managers in driving performance improvements, Ambulance Victoria developed a project to generate better strategic decision making. The project focused on three main areas – improving technology, up-skilling managers and analysts and delivering complex predictive and prescriptive analytics. The project has resulted in positive outcomes including higher levels of job satisfaction, increased in-house analytics capability and the capacity to tackle rapidly changing businesses challenges. | ![]() |
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2018Star Award WinnerAmbulance Victoria A clinical triage algorithm for stroke clot retrieval A tool to detect severe forms of stroke and facilitate rapid treatment for clot retrieval was the outstanding winner of the CAA 2018 Awards For Excellence. Dr Henry Zhao, Principal Investigator at the Royal Melbourne Hospital & Ambulance Victoria and Professor Karen Smith from Ambulance Victoria received the Star Award for their ACT-FAST tool, a clinical triage algorithm for stroke clot retrieval. ACT-FAST, which also won the Clinical category, was the result of a project which aimed to create a simple and easily deployable paramedic procedure for identification of stroke patients requiring clot retrieval surgery. | ![]() |
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