Safety culture in healthcare
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.
SARAH FISCHER
Sarah Fischer is the Director, Culture & Capability, at Safer Care Victoria (SCV), where she leads a team to design and delivery whole of health sector leadership, culture, capability, and clinical governance development and partners with health service CEOs, boards, and executives to ensure their delivery of strategic safety and quality agendas.
SCV is Victoria’s healthcare safety and improvement specialist. SCV supports health services to prevent and learn from patient harm and meaningfully partner with consumers and clinicians to identify and deliver service improvements. Sarah is also an AHPRA-endorsed Organisational Psychologist and has completed a PhD on exploring trust between employees and leaders from Deakin University. She is a casual lecturer at Deakin University in the Master of Industrial and Organisational Psychology program.
Lastly, Sarah is a proud mother of two girls and two dogs, and hopes to be a good role model for women and mothers in leadership.
You can view a copy of Sarah's slides here.
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