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Building a clinical governance framework is challenging, especially for health services that are used or provided across more than one state or territory. This webinar discussed some key components for building a practical clinical governance framework to enhance uptake amongst users of the system.
Hear from Cathy Balding and her guest, Sarah Soltan, as they explored the boundaries of clinical decision-making within clinical governance, ensuring patient safety and quality care remain the top priority.
Listening to patient voices has many benefits and is proven to contribute to care and service improvement. This article describes how consumers can help healthcare organisations detect and address performance drift, described as gradual deviations from best practice that become normalised over time.
The importance of a safety culture, incorporating psychological safety and encouraging people to speak up, has been identified as critical to safe care for some time. However, achieving and maintaining such an environment can be challenging. This metasynthesis examines 15 studies to “review and synthesise qualitative research on nurses' experiences of speaking up”.
This qualitative study aims to identify key aspects of CEO participation in quality and safety programs that characterise effective leadership for quality improvement (QI).
The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission has developed a Sector Readiness Plan to assist the aged care sector in preparing for the upcoming Aged Care Act.
In this talk, Ben Symon shares his experiences improving Queensland Health algorithms and guidelines utilising translational simulation, his experience as a resuscitationist and conceptual foundations from his degree in visual arts.
In 2024, Kelly decided she wanted to dive deeper into quality improvement so she could help her clients make a real difference in care quality. What she learned there completely changed how she thinks and works with organisations to improve care. We can’t all attend Oxford, but we can benefit from Kelly’s new knowledge and how she’s applied it, particularly from this one lightbulb moment.
Is there a recipe for creating a high-performing health service? Of course there is! We don’t have to look too far into the literature to find multiple sources of evidence on high performance. This study, from the 2015 ‘vault,’ is particularly useful as it identifies seven clear themes from a systematic review of the qualitative literature on high-performing hospitals.
We know that AI poses risks and also has potential for significant benefits. In January 2024, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Lucian Leape Institute convened an expert panel to review the literature and explore these benefits and risks as they relate to consumer safety, focusing what they considered to be key uses for genAI in health care: documentation support, clinical decision support, and consumer-facing chatbots.
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