Innovation Awards:The Children's Sunshine Home in Leopardstown, Co Dublin, is the overall winner in this year's Health Services Innovation Awards.
Sixteen finalists were chosen from more than 260 applications. Of the 16, four category winners and an overall winner was chosen.
The Children's Sunshine Home won the overall award and was also a category winner.
The other three category winners were La Nua High Support Services, Kilkenny; Joint Department of Surgery, Drogheda, Co Louth; and the SpunOut.ie national youth website, HSE West Ballyshannon/Letterkenny.
The overall winner, the Children's Sunshine Home, provides a unique service to children of all ages experiencing a life-limiting or life-threatening illness where a cure or recovery is not possible.
Projects that received special merit awards were: the Health Action Zone project, North Lee local health office area, Cork; migraine clinic, Cork University Hospital; Action Van, the Royal Hospital Donnybrook; and Beaumont hospital's "telemedicine" pilot study on healthcare access in the area of neurophysiology.