Winners – 2011 Crystal Clear Awards
11th May, 2011
The Irish Heart Foundation’s F.A.S.T stroke awareness campaign – The Irish Heart Foundation used the acronym F.A.S.T (Face, Arms, Speech and Time to call 999) to help people remember the main warning signs of stroke and act by calling the emergency services. This campaign sought to tackle the frightening lack of awareness around Ireland’s third biggest killer.
· The Irish Examiner’s ‘Let’s Talk Suicide’ campaign – The Irish Examiner sought to put a human face on the national crisis that suicide now represents in their ‘Let’s Talk Suicide’ campaign. The campaign booklet focused on interviews with people affected by suicide giving them an opportunity to tell their stories and share their pain, frustration and hope with input from key support groups and associations involved in suicide prevention and suicide advice, support and information.
· The HSE Dublin North East’s ‘Be Active After School Activity Programme’ – This initiative comprises a 30 week structured activity programme which introduces parents and children aged 7-8 years to a variety of activities to sustain positive physical activity habits as children grow up. There are currently 1,200 children participating in the programme with 300 parent leaders and 130 teacher leaders volunteering their time to facilitate the sessions.
· The HSE South Cardiac Rehabilitation Working Group’s ‘Take Heart’ programme – This programme comprises a booklet titled ‘Take Heart’ which is used by patients before, during and after they have a heart operation. The booklet helps patients understand their diagnosis and make appropriate choices regarding their lifestyle following heart surgery.
· The Health Centre, Athenry, Galway’s ear care and ear wax information programme – This programme comprises an information leaflet about ear care which is one of the reasons why people visit a GP or a practice nurse. Using Plain English, the leaflet provides information in an easy to understand and engaging way and following distribution of the leaflet, the practice carried out an audit which showed a reduction in the number of patients coming back for repeat ear related appointments.