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Increasingly, technology should save time.  So how will it be spent?
Increasingly, technology should save time. So how will it be spent?

Better technology is often assumed to lead to better care.  But is this the case? This Health Foundation Report draws on a combination of clinician surveys, expert interviews, and a rapid review of existing literature to explore how clinicians might use their time saved through the adoption of healthcare technologies. 

AI
Clinical care
Job satisfaction
Public
Workforce
WHO Telehealth Quality of Care Tool
WHO Telehealth Quality of Care Tool

As telehealth becomes a mainstream component of healthcare delivery, maintaining high standards for consultation and patient interaction is crucial to supporting quality care and experiences for consumers. The WHO Regional Office for Europe developed the ‘Telehealth Quality of Care Tool’ (TQoCT) to support healthcare organisations and Member States to assess and improve the quality of telehealth services. 

Decision-making
Improvement
Measurement
Unleashing the Potential of our Health Workforce (Scope of Practice Review)
Unleashing the Potential of our Health Workforce (Scope of Practice Review)

Unleashing the Potential of our Health Workforce, led by Professor Mark Cormack, looked at the available evidence about health professionals’ ability to deliver on their full scope of practice in primary care. The review identified opportunities to remove the barriers stopping health professionals from working to their full scope of practice. It also drew on examples of multi-disciplinary teams where members are working to their full scope of practice to deliver best-practice primary care. Here, Mark presented some barriers and opportunities for health professionals to work at their full scope of practice.

Clinical care
Clinical governance
Primary & Community Care
Public
Vision vs Reality: Why Clinical Governance matters at every level in Aged Care
Vision vs Reality: Why Clinical Governance matters at every level in Aged Care

Designed for leaders and teams across the sector, this webinar examined how cultural change can be achieved by embedding clinical governance principles into daily practice. Our panelists discussed the importance of fostering a shared language and building staff capabilities through targeted training, and spoke on how leadership at every level can drive process improvements to establish robust, supportive systems.  

Aged care
Clinical governance
Improving Resuscitation Algorithm Using Translational Simulation & Visual Design
Improving Resuscitation Algorithm Using Translational Simulation & Visual Design

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.

Clinical governance
Quality improvement
The promise and risks of AI in improving safety
The promise and risks of AI in improving safety

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. 

AI
Clinical care
Clinical governance
Safety
Morbidity and Mortality Meetings – Framework and Toolkit
Morbidity and Mortality Meetings – Framework and Toolkit

Safer Care Victoria has developed a framework and toolkit to guide Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) meetings to provide health services with a systems-based and Just Culture approach to M&M case reviews and discussions.  

Clinical audit
Clinical governance
Clinical leadership
Clinical risk management
Measurement
Barriers to reporting clinical deterioration - and how to remove them
Barriers to reporting clinical deterioration - and how to remove them

Clinical deterioration is a key risk for any organisation providing clinical care. This qualitative study investigates how three organisational influences - leadership, culture and hierarchies -  impact healthcare professionals' readiness to raise concerns about patient deterioration. 

Clinical governance
Clinical risk
Decision-making
Public
Safety Culture
Lightbulb Moments: My 'A-ha!' Moment on Leading Improvement in Clinical Care
Lightbulb Moments: My 'A-ha!' Moment on Leading Improvement in Clinical Care

In this webinar, Dr. Cathy Balding and her guest, Professor Alan Lilly, discuss Professor Alan's moment of realisation on the difference he could make leading improvement in clinical care.

Clinical governance
Improvement
Leadership
Strategies for improving home care quality
Strategies for improving home care quality

Specific research into home care quality is in its infancy, relative to other care settings.  This comprehensive study explores differences in healthcare outcomes between urban and rural home care settings, with a focus on two key quality metrics: hospital admissions and emergency room (ER) visit rates.

Clinical care
Clinical governance
Continuity of care
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