CCI Project a Finalist for the WA Health Excellence Awards
10 December 2023
CCI Project a Finalist for the WA Health Excellence Awards
CCI were proud to be represented at the recent WA Health Excellence Awards gala dinner by two of our team members, Adelln Sng (Senior Clinical Psychologist) and Amber MacLeod(Clinical Psychologist Registrar). The team were being recognised as one of four finalists in the category for Excellence in Mental Health for our project entitled Reducing Panic in the Emergency Department. The WA Health Excellence Awards recognise excellence, innovated, and people centred care in the delivery of health services, with the Mental Health category celebrating projects that promote positive mental health and support people who are experiencing mental health issues to stay in the community, out of hospital, and live a satisfying, hopeful, and contributing life.
CCI’s project aimed to enhance the way in which mental illness is responded to within the WA health system through the creation of an innovative new treatment program. This program offers evidence-based psychological treatment to individuals with panic disorder within a community clinic, thereby reducing their need to repeatedly seek treatment in medical settings. Panic disorder is a common mental illness, and people often mi...