Safety priorities and programs
Targeting priority patient populations and key focus areas with programs, tools, resources, and safety expertise, while maintaining flexibility and agility to respond to urgent needs.
Increased coordinated uptake and evaluation of evidence-based safety programs.
Actions
- Provide implementation support to healthcare providers to spread, scale and sustain patient safety improvement with an emphasis on seven programs: maternity and neonates, paediatrics, adult, older people, mental health, infection prevention and control, and medication safety.
- Provide targeted support to rural and regional healthcare settings to design, implement and collaborate around appropriate safety and quality structures and approaches.
Enhanced system-wide safety improvement capability and succession planning
Actions
- Implement the NSW safety and quality capable workforce pathway with LHDs and SHNs.
- Increase the knowledge, application and integration of human factors across patient safety.
- In partnership with HETI, establish a program for Deputy Directors of Clinical Governance and a program for Accredited IPAC Practitioners.
The CEC is organised to implement bespoke, rapid and agile responses to system needs
Action
- Establish a service delivery model that ensures agile mobilisation and deployment of expert CEC teams to meet the urgent and planned needs of the system.
