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What skills and experience do clinical governance or similar teams and units need to support your organisation's safety and quality agenda? In this webinar, Dr Sarah Fischer, Acting Executive Director of Safety at Safer Care Victoria, discussed the various roles and relationships to ensure fit-for-purpose teams.
In this Lightbulb Moment webinar, Dr Cathy Balding and her guest, Louise McKinlay (CEO, Safer Care Victoria), as they discuss Louise's "ah-ha!" moment about joining the quality dots.
In this Lightbulb Moment webinar, Dr Cathy Balding interviewed Allison Patchett to discuss her "ah-ha!" moment about quality and efficiency - symbiotic or siloed?
A core objective of change leadership is to set others up to succeed in your absence. But as we all know, that is a lot harder than it sounds. Research has shown that storytelling has a remarkable ability to connect people and inspire them to take action. “Our species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories,” the anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson has written. “The harder the situation, the more essential it is.”
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In this Lightbulb Moment webinar, Dr Cathy Balding interviewed Filomena Ciavarella to discuss her "ah-ha!" moment about the difference between quality and quality systems.
The central role played by governance and leadership in the actions (and inactions) relating to quality of care and patient safety has been repeatedly identified by inquiries and investigations into major organisational failures. They show that governance and leadership - through their influence on priorities, oversight, management and culture – are often part of both problem and solution.
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In this webinar, Sarah Fischer, Director of Culture & Capability at Safer Care Victoria discussed the elements that make up a safety culture; the steps to safety culture maturation, the signs that indicate success and how culture is influenced at a local level.
In his 1993 book, Managing at the Speed of Change, Daryl Connor wrote about the 1988 North Sea Piper Alpha oil rig fire – a fatal explosion of an oil drilling platform in which one survivor had to choose to jump into a sea of burning oil rather than burn on the platform. He coined the term “burning platform” as a metaphor to explain the necessity of change despite the fear of the unknown consequences. For healthcare, this metaphor aligns nicely to describe the introduction of short-notice assessments.
Here is a list of resources to help managers and senior leaders help their teams become accreditation-ready every day.
What is a ‘culture of safety’ in the context of care quality? How does it help? Why is it important? While ‘safety culture’ trips off the tongue, ‘culture’ is often nebulous in practice; and it can be unclear how to improve it or how the shift occurs.
