Is Your GP Deserving Of A National Award? Here’s How You Nominate Them…

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*** NO REPRODUCTION FEE *** DUBLIN : Dr Pixie McKenna joined Dr Shane McKeogh and Dr Darach Ó Ciardha to launch the inaugural GPBuddy Awards in Dublin today. The GPBuddy Awards will recognise the achievements and collaborative efforts of GPs and healthcare professionals in community healthcare in Ireland. They take place on Thursday 15th September at the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin. Nominations are now open on www.gpbuddyawards.ie. Pictured at the launch were Dr Shane McKeogh, Dr Pixie McKenna and Dr Darach Ó Ciardha. Picture Conor McCabe Photography. MEDIA CONTACT : Aoife O’Donnell, Vital Communications mobile 087 413 0032 email aoife@vitalcommunications.ie

Dr Pixie McKenna joined Dr Shane McKeogh and Dr Darach Ó Ciardha to launch the inaugural GPBuddy Awards in Dublin today. The GPBuddy Awards will recognise the achievements and collaborative efforts of GPs and healthcare professionals in community healthcare in Ireland. Picture; Conor McCabe Photography

THE first national GP Awards will be closing for nominations this week and organisers, GPBuddy.ie, are asking Kerry patients to nominate their GPs for the Patients’ Choice Award.

The Awards will be announced by celebrity TV doctor, Pixie McKenna at a glittering awards ceremony in Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel on Thursday, September 15.

This is the first year of the GPBuddy Awards which were set up to recognise the achievements and collaborative efforts of GPs and healthcare professionals in community healthcare in Ireland.

Amongst other Awards to be announced will be Rural GP Practice of the Year and GP of the Year.

Commenting on the GPAwards, Dr Pixie McKenna said: “As a practicing GP, I understand the challenges and sacrifices that healthcare professionals make in order to deliver high quality healthcare to their patients.  As a GP and in my television work, we come across all kinds of situations every day and collaboration between healthcare professionals is key to delivering a timely diagnosis for patients.  I am delighted to see this work and the important role of GPs across Ireland being recognised in these Awards.”

Dr Shane McKeogh, GPBuddy added: “It’s not only GPs throughout the country who we are recognising but the practice nurses and receptionists who are often the unsung heroes of Irish healthcare.”

As the first and only Awards of its kind in Ireland, the GPBuddy Awards will recognise the achievements of healthcare providers in urban and rural locations who work in collaboration to deliver primary healthcare in Ireland.

Patients can nominate their GP or practice team by entering them in the Patients’ Choice Award at www.GPbuddyawards.ie. Nominations close by Friday, August 19. Winners will be announced at an evening Awards Ceremony in the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin.

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