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Safety and Clinical Governance Framework
Safety and Clinical Governance Framework

The Clinical Governance Framework is aligned with Neami Strategic Directions, the organisational values of self-determination, growth, partnerships, respect, empowerment, diversity, choice, learning, change, wellbeing, hope and quality and the Great Consumer Experience Framework.

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Measurement
Mental health
Headspace Clinical Governance Framework
Headspace Clinical Governance Framework

This Clinical Governance Framework from Headspace aims to assure fairness, accountability and transparency and defines who has the authority, decision making and accountability.

Clinical governance
Frameworks
Measurement
Mental health
AIHW mental health performance indicators
AIHW mental health performance indicators

Performance indicators in health are used to describe specific aspects of our health system to monitor ‘if and how a system is performing to an agreed standard'. They are also used to understand how a system works and for accountability to consumers, governments and funders.

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Measurement
Mental health
Clinical Governance Framework
Clinical Governance Framework

The purpose of the SFS Clinical Governance Framework (CGF) is to ensure the quality, safety and accountability of clinical services provided through SFS programs, to infants, children, young people and their families.

Clinical governance
Frameworks
Measurement
Mental health
To reduce healthcare quality variation, focus on the process
To reduce healthcare quality variation, focus on the process

Variation in healthcare quality is an ongoing issue. This study seeks to understand how differences in hospital practices and policies can lead to disparities in consumer outcomes and overall care quality. The authors compared process and outcome measures to detect variation and characteristics of hospitals with lower variation.

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Clinical leadership
Clinical risk
Measurement
Variation
Which of my 387 quality metrics should I stop collecting?
Which of my 387 quality metrics should I stop collecting?

In this webinar, Cathy Jones, Board Director and Clinical Governance Consultant discussed quality metrics and the following questions:

  • How do you measure quality? 
  • What’s the best way of measuring - safe? effective? person centred? connected? accessible?
  • How do you find & organise all of your (387) quality metrics? 
  • How to prioritise what is most important when everything is important?
  • How to decide which metrics to monitor when there is so much data available - what criteria should you use to select the most important measures
  • The power of measures that are relevant both at an organisation-wide level and at a unit/department level.
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Plan an effective clinical audit
Plan an effective clinical audit

Audits and quality improvement projects are vital aspects of clinical governance and continual service improvement in medicine.

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