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The Victorian Safety Culture Guide (VSCG), from Safer Care Victoria, supports healthcare leaders to measure and monitor their organisation’s safety culture; and is also a useful tool for other sectors to adapt and apply to develop their safety cultures.
The Global Patient Safety Report 2024 by the World Health Organisation (WHO) highlights the critical global issue of patient safety, recognising it as a key component of quality healthcare that still requires significant evolution. The report's main goals are to raise awareness of patient safety risks, provide insights into the scope of the problem and set the stage for global initiatives to reduce harm to patients in healthcare settings.
As finding and keeping the right staff continues to challenge human services’ ability to provide quality care, this case study explores a critical component of staff satisfaction and performance. Are the Right People in the Right Seats? delves into the process of aligning employee skills and roles for organisational success.
This systematic review aims to evaluate the impact of accreditation on quality improvement in healthcare services and to understand the contextual factors influencing its implementation.
Healthcare has worked on reducing ‘Low-Value Care’ for several years now, with varying success. The significant negative impact of low-value care includes increased healthcare costs, patient harm, and resource wastage. These authors propose a framework to address the still pervasive issue of low-value care such as unnecessary tests, treatments, and procedures that offer little benefit to patients and may even cause harm.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has introduced the concept of Quality Improvement (QI) ‘dosing’, where different staff roles receive tailored levels of improvement science (SOI) training based on their responsibilities.
In this Lightbulb Moment webinar, Dr Cathy Balding and her guest, Tanya Farrell, Director, Maternity Services and Deputy Executive Director, Nursing and Midwifery - Western Health, discussed Tanya's "ah-ha!" moment about the quality flow: from the bedside to the boardroom and beyond.
Policymakers around the world are considering how to best harness the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) for productivity while trying to anticipate and limit associated risks.
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.
Effective clinical leadership has long been an aspiration for acute care services. With the establishment of clinical governance in aged, disability and community care, these sectors are increasingly focused on how to develop leaders for quality clinical care. This AICG Paper explores the concept of clinical leadership for quality care as an ‘everyday’ responsibility across human service organisations.
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