2022 Annual Primary Health Care Awards Dinner

The Primary Health Care Awards are designed to recognise the hard work and dedication of our region’s primary health care organisations, who have been responsive to our community’s needs in an ever-changing environment.

On Saturday, 22 October, Adelaide PHN hosted its Annual Primary Health Care Awards Dinner.

Held at the Adelaide Convention Centre, the awards night celebrated our commissioned services’ achievements and recognised their impactful work to support our community across our seven National Priority Areas.

The event was hosted by Marija Zivic (Senior Political Reporter for ABC and SBS ) with performances from The White Tree band. Ashum Owen from Ngangki Warra delivered Welcome to Country on the night, and got everyone involved with her performance.

Adelaide PHN Chair of Board Tom Symonds welcomed the guests. The awards were open to Adelaide PHN commissioned service providers and those involved in any of our related partnership and general practice activity.

The dinner concluded with Adelaide PHN CEO Michelle McKay delivering a vote of thanks to all the guests.

Over 150 people were in attendance, including our staff, Board, service delivery partners, and council members.

Highlights of the night

On the night, Adelaide PHN celebrated the achievements from across the year through beautifully crafted videos featuring our CEO and the Board.

Our Chair of Board introduced the first two videos that provided an overview of the service highlights for the year while our CEO introduced the Board videos.

The Board videos featured our Directors, Dr Melanie Smith and Fiona Raschella talking about Adelaide PHN’s community impact.

We also donated fresh seasonal vegetable centrepieces to OzHarvest. This contributed around 2,800 nutritious meals to families in need within our community.

It was a wonderful night of networking and great to see all our staff, partners and council members connect and rejoice the outstanding work of our service providers.