National Medical Excellence Awards

Introduction

The National Medical Excellence Awards is a national-level award to recognise outstanding clinicians and healthcare professionals who made outstanding contributions in the advancement of healthcare, improvement in standards of patient safety and quality of care, which ultimately improve people’s lives. First awarded in 2008, there are currently six categories of awards:

National Outstanding Clinician Award

This award recognises individuals with at least 15 years of service in public of private healthcare establishments, with exceptional contributions to clinical work that advances the safety and quality of patient care, and in addition has supported and facilitated research. The recipients have also successfully introduced novel or effective treatment methods resulting in high standard of quality healthcare delivery and are recognized by their peers as being master clinicians.

National Outstanding Clinician Scientist Award

This award recognizes individuals with at least 15 years of service in public or private healthcare establishments with outstanding contributions to clinical and translational research work relating to their field of specialty. The research work has resulted in novel understanding of diseases with potential positive outcome on healthcare delivery.

National Outstanding Clinician Mentor Award

This award recognizes individuals with at least 15 years of service in healthcare industry and health-related work and has contributed substantially in the training of young clinicians and clinician scientists via mentorship or by virtue of academic positions. The recipient is still an active role model to younger clinicians and clinician scientists.

National Outstanding Clinician Educator Award

This award recognises individuals who have contributed substantially to the training of clinicians or clinician scientists.

National Clinical Excellence Team Award

This award recognizes teams or organizations that have undertaken a clinical quality/practice improvement project that has contributed significantly to bridging the gap between knowledge and practice with a strong research element in knowledge translation process, resulting in improved standard of care, health outcomes, high efficiency and/or more effective patient-centred services. The teams also demonstrated their achievements through successful population of novel care delivery services beyond their own units, wards or departments.

National Community Care Excellence Team Award

This award recognizes teams or organizations that have undertaken a quality/practice improvement project/initiative which has contributed significantly to improving community health and raised awareness of preventive health in the community care setting. The teams should have demonstrated their achievements through successful implementation of the projects/initiatives, which are novel, significantly contributed to preventive health and/or better community/public health in collaboration with community care organisations, public healthcare institutions, agencies and stakeholders to foster a network of support for the community.

Awards ceremony

The highlight of the NMEA is the awards ceremony, where the clinical leadership and community gather to celebrate the winners. MOH partners with a healthcare cluster each year to organise the evening gala.