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​For the first time, NUHS has been listed as one of The Straits Times Singapore's Best Employers 2022 based on 17,000 survey respondents. We are ranked 1st amongst the three public healthcare clusters and 3rd within the 'Healthcare & Social' category.

"At NUHS, we place people first. Care for our people is equally as important as care for our patients. Over the past two years of battling COVID-19, our healthcare team has made many personal sacrifices while holding the line for our nation. This has been a very stressful period, and to support our staff, we've rolled out various wellness initiatives, such as extra days to rest and recharge, encouraging and offering preventive health screening, offering counselling support helplines, as well as setting up the NUHS Wellbeing Office that works closely with HR to provide greater mental health support. Our goal is to make NUHS the best workplace it can be for all our staff!" - Prof Yeoh Khay Guan, Chief Executive, NUHS

Established in 2012, the Human Resource (HR) Excellence Awards provided an incubator platform for HR teams to showcase their HR strategies and initiatives. Over the years, it has evolved from showcasing to a benchmarking practice across industries. The Awards honour the best-in-class HR teams and individuals for thier spectacular work executed across the entire HR function. It is also the region's only HR awards that is peer-reviewed by a jury of HR esteemed HR practitioners.

2021

Congratulations to our NUHS HR team for bringing home the Excellence in Digital Transformation Silver Award under the HR Excellence Awards 2021!

"We are delighted to receive the Excellence in Digital Transformation Silver award. This award recognises the team’s effort to optimise HR operations and to create a more agile HR model to better meet the needs of today’s digitally-savvy workforce. As the first public healthcare cluster to pilot and move into a cloud-based HR platform with mobile capability, we will continue to strive for excellence in enhancing the user experience of both our current and potential employees."- Ms Priscilla Teo, Group Chief Human Resource Officer, NUHS

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Congratulations to our NUHS teams for bringing home the Excellence Award in two categories!

The Asian Hospital Management Awards is a prestigious award that recognises and honours hospitals across the Asia-Pacific for excellence in managing hospitals and healthcare transformation. The winners were announced at the Hospital Management Asia Conference (virtual) held from 14 to 16 September 2021. This year's theme was "Reimagining Healthcare in the New Normal Through Innovations".

Financial Improvement

Project - VDO Project to Reduce Length of Stay (LOS) for Transcathether Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)
Using a Rapid Improvement Event (RIE) model to evaluate the issues, the team outlined interventions to streamline admission, early identification for post-surgery rehabilitation, check lists, fast-tacking for step down, and frailty assessment. The number of patients with LOS ≤7 days increased from 10% pre-RIE to 50% by February 2017 and increased to 71% in 2019. It was at 100% for consecutive months (May to July 2020). The mean cost per patient was reduced by 40% by 2020 from 2017.

Team
Cardiac, Thoracic & Vascular (CTVS) Surgery, Ward 7A, Ward 20, Ward 63, Ward 64, Clinical Support Services, Vascular Diagnostic Centre, Ops and Administration (National University Heart Centre, Singapore), Quality Improvement

Led by
Dr Ivandito Kuntjoro, Consultant (Cardiac) and Vikneswary D/O Murugiah, Nurse Manager (Ward 64)

Most Advanced Healthcare Technology

Project - Discovery AI (DAI) Platform for NUHS Cluster-wide Research
Launched in 2018, the DAI platform facilitates the hosting of secured centralised databases in accordance to MOH standards. DAI hosts a number of AI tools, including diagnosis prediction, disease progression and image analysis tools. It is also the hosting platform for ATLAS, an open source unified web interface that enables access to de-identified patient data and for aggregate analytics. Such dashboards support research and development by presenting unified data that might otherwise be fragmented and siloed across multiple databases. Researchers may easily query and access cluster-wide data in a secure environment on DAI.

Team
NUHS Group CTO Office

Led by
A/Prof Ngiam Kee Yuan

2019

The 18th edition of Asian Hospital Management Awards is one of the most prestigious hospital management awards in the region. Comprising of 13 award categories, the event seeks to showcase the innovative and progressive methodologies hospitals across the region are adopting to enhance healthcare.

Congratulations to the NUHS & NCIS teams for bagging the Gold Award and the NUH team for receiving the Excellence Award for the following categories this year at the AHMA!

2021 - 2022

NUHS is proud to be conferred
2021 - 2022 Singapore's Top Employers in the Healthcare category.

Ms Priscilla Teo
Group Chief Human Resource Officer, NUHS

"The National University Health System (NUHS) is a dynamic organisation with professionals from diverse backgrounds. Across our institutions, our employees are dedicated to deliver leading-edge patient care, research and education. This Award affirms our effort and commitment to provide a work environment that is conducive and engaging for our 15,000 staff."

2021

A/Prof Vinicius Rosa, Vice Dean (Research), NUS Faculty of Dentistry has been conferred two awards by the International Association of Dental Research (IADR) for his significant contributions to the science and application of dental materials research. The two awards are the Distinguished Scientist Young Investigator Award & the Stephen Bayne Mid-Career Award by the Dental Materials Group (DMG).

A/Prof Vinicius Rosa, also from NUS Materials Science and Engineering and Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, is known for his seminal work in developing atomically thin materials for biomedical applications. He pioneered the development of atom-thick coatings to improve bone formation, and decrease biofilms formation and corrosion on implantable dental materials.

A prolific researcher and innovator, he has developed ground-breaking technologies that address long-standing gaps faced by the dental field. Last December, he co-invented the Dental Droplet and Aerosol Reducing Tent (Dental DART), a foldable tent-like device that serves as a barrier to protect dentists, nurses and patients from direct and indirect exposure to infectious diseases such as COVID-19. In 2018, he created human odontoblasts (dentin-forming cells on the teeth) from induced pluripotent stem cells, making them suitable candidates for testing the safety and efficacy of dental materials. His contributions are far-reaching and will continually push the bar in frontier research and educating students to solve the problems of the future. 

2020

Prof Chng Wee Joo has been conferred the 2020 Brian G.M. Durie Outstanding Achievement Award by the International Myeloma Foundation at the 11th Annual International Myeloma Working Group Summit held on 26th August 2020. He is the first Asian to receive this prestigious award. This international award is given to an individual who has demonstrated excellence in multiple myeloma research, and has significantly improved the lives of patients. The prestigious accolade is judged by a working group comprising more than 200 international myeloma experts who conduct collaborative basic, clinical, and translational research to improve health outcomes.

The scope of Prof Chng’s research projects include: “Understanding genetic abnormalities and the role they play in myeloma development”; “Stratification of patients into different risk group”; “Understanding the reasons underlying high risk disease that remain a therapeutic challenge”, and “Developing an Asia-wide clinical trial network that provide early access to novel effective treatment” (not just in Singapore but also in other Asian countries). These contributions have resulted in better ways to stratify patients, potential new therapeutic strategies for high risk patients, and an improvement in outcomes of patients due to access to trials.

2018

• Installation of highly efficient chilled water plant to reduce energy consumption
• Aesthetically pleasing greenery provision of a GNPR of up to 3.9 to encourage nature appreciation
• Extensive usage of environmentally friendly construction materials such as Recycled Concrete Aggregates and Washed Copper Slag
  
• Provision of Photocell and Motion sensors to reduce energy consumption
• Usage of energy efficient lighting fixtures which ensures the health and well-being of staff and community
• Usage of energy efficient lighting fixtures which ensure the health and well-being of staff and community
• Usage of energy efficient lifts with VVVF and sleep mode
  
• Provision of water efficient fittings to reduce water consumption