ARPA TAS Awards 2026: IPAR wins Innovation in Return to Work Award

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Winners of the ARPA AwardWe are delighted to share IPAR Tasmania won the Innovation in Return to Work award at the recent 2026 ARPA TAS Excellence in Workplace Rehabilitation awards, for their state-wide telehealth model for persistent pain recovery. IPAR’s Grace Ho, Anita Gooley and Scott Bunton were also selected as finalists in this year’s awards for their outstanding achievements in return to work, and exceptional leadership.

Well done to all finalists and winners of this year’s awards, on your outstanding achievements.

The Re-thinking Recovery telehealth innovation brings best practice pain care and support to every corner of Tasmania, supporting injured workers with persistent pain, regardless of location.

It delivers personalised psychosocial support and pain coaching to injured workers with persistent pain across every region of Tasmania, overcoming geographic and service access barriers. Applied across both workers compensation and CTP schemes, it achieves measurable, system-level impact by combining immersive education, motivational facilitation, and scalable statewide delivery.

We’re committed to supporting injured workers with persistent pain across Tasmania. If you’re interested in finding out more about our telehealth innovation, please reach out to IPAR’s Andrea Windebank or Aaron Bowes.