Australian Association for the Manual Handling of People

AAMHP Patient Handling Innovation Award 2025 Winner

AAMHP is pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 AAMHP Patient Handling Innovation Award, following voting by all delegates at the Shaping Tomorrow Conference held November 2025.

AAMHP congratulates both organisations for their commitment to innovation in patient handling and for helping shape safer, more effective care environments across healthcare and aged care settings. Congratulations to Be Home Sooner Services and CHS Healthcare on their outstanding achievements.

WINNER: "Be Home Sooner Services"  Essential Helpcare (Platinum sponsor)

Their innovative approach to rapid response equipment provision, streamlined admission processes, and patient-centred service delivery impressed attendees and demonstrated a strong commitment to improving patient outcomes and operational efficiency.

RUNNER-UP: CHS Healthcare for eConnectus

A special congratulations also goes to, eConnectus who attracted significant interest in its innovative ceiling hoist connection technology that enhances caregiver safety, reduces injury risk, and promotes patient dignity.

 

 

Pack your bags for sunny Brisbane and get ready for three incredible days of learning, inspiration, and connection at the AAMHP Conference!  

This year's program is shaping up to be extraordinary with exciting abstracts flying in, featuring:  

• Cutting-edge: Latest research and innovative ideas.  
• Challenging Behaviors: Empowering strategies and insights.  
• Bariatrics: Exploring advancements in care and management.  
• International Speakers: World-renowned experts sharing their expertise.  
• Connection with Peers: Build lasting relationships and strengthen your network.  
• Inspirational Moments: A platform to recharge, reimagine, and rise to new heights.  

Don't miss this opportunity to be part of the action. Save the date and stay tuned as we unveil more exciting program details!  

Abstracts are still open for the Conference in Melbourne 21 to 23 May 2018. 

Here are some ideas to inspire thought and motivation for submitting an abstract and sharing your story.

Industry scope - Whilst the industry scope remains the same Health and community services (Hospitals, Rehabilitation centres, Education, Emergency services, Aged care, Community care) the 2018 conference has widened the scope to beyong just manual handling of people. Share your successes in materials handling, safety systems, training and education or wellness and injury management.

 Predictions:

• Think Strategies 2020 - 2030 - Where are we headed: Current need to know Topics of interest:
• Aging population - Greatest uses of the healthcare system - What has your sector done to challenge this?
• Immigration: Have you predicted an impact on the Healthcare system - From a user's perspective or and Employees perspective.
• The modern Regulator - the inspectorate, where is this headed?
• IT solutions - will computerisation and automation change care delivery?Workforce of the future - what will it look like
• Aged care - How to navigate into the future - are we prepared for the baby boomer generation
• What is the Health predictions of the future? Particularly in community care.
• What impact will the NDIS and packaged care on safety in the workplace, clients self-managing their packages and employing less qualified persons?
• Can we predict the impact on standard of care?
• Use of telehealth - How will this look?
• Where do you see manual handling training in 2020? Purely assimilated?
• Rehab and post injury work - Predicting the injury type of the future?
• Mental Health: Stress and anxiety claims: Now on the rise above any physical injury?

People

• Dementia - co morbidities, impact on healthcare: Employee perspective, Client perspective; and Behaviours of concern
• Ageing workforce
• NDIS - National Disability Insurance Scheme: CDC "Consumer directed care" case studies - What's the impact / strategies and outcomes
• Organisational change: Challenging change for better outcomes rather than for change sake.
• Population change - immigration impacts
• Working in isolation - who do you turn to?
• Professional Development - case studies
• Multicultural workforces - cultural understanding
• RTW success stories

Preventions

• Ergonomics and Design in prevention
• Ergonomic outcomes - case studies in Over Head tracking systems
• Workplace stress strategies - What's happening in Mental health
• Success stories - Spread the news..
• Innovations - Equipment, strategies, Programs
• Rescue teams of the future - challenging environments
• The good bad and ugly of the industry - Federal government perspective

 Abstract submission close 27th October 2017. Share your success stories!!

The conference planning committee are please to invite you to submitt an abstract for the next fantastic AAMHP conference in Melbourne on 21-23 May 2018.

Abstracts are requested for either

• oral presentations
• workshops
• new inventors

New for 2018, we will be expanding the scope of the presentations to include broader health, safety and wellbeing initiatives within the health and community services areas.  This is a great opportunity to share new ideas and success stories.

More information is available on the flyer.

To submit an abstract please visit: https://yrd/currinda/register/event/1115

Abstract submissions close Friday 27th October 2017.

Regards

Pippa Wright

Don't forget to download the free Conference app!!

Delegates with any smart device will be able to access the program, speaker bios, abstracts using the free SAFER Handling Conference app.

To access the web-based app, click here

You will need your conference registration profile login and password to access all the features of the app.

See you at the conference.

Regards

Tony