Clinical Procedure Safety

The Clinical Excellence Commission (CEC) is working with the Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) to improve patient safety and the quality of clinical care of patients undergoing clinical procedures by preventing incorrect patient, incorrect procedure and incorrect site incidents and reducing the occurrence of incidents associated with clinical procedures.

NSW Health policy

The Clinical Procedure Safety policy directive (PD2017_032) addresses clinical care and patient safety risks associated with clinical procedures, improves matching of the patient to the correct procedure, improves communication within the procedural team and between the patient and the procedural team, and reduces the number of clinical procedure related incidents.

Resources

Level 3 Checklists

The following checklists are examples of Level 3 procedure checklists developed by NSW health services:

Level 2 Checklists

The following checklists may assist health services comply with the NSW Health Clinical Procedure Safety PD2017_032 documentation requirements for Level 2 procedures.

Level 1 Checklists

The following checklists may assist health services comply with the NSW Health Clinical Procedure Safety PD2017_032 documentation requirements for Level 1 procedures.

Case Studies

The case studies below are provided as a resource for health care facilities to use during implementation of the Clinical Procedure Safety PD2017_032. Each case study is based on an incident reported to the Incident Information Management System (IIMS) and the action required is based on requirements from the Clinical Procedure Safety PD2017_032.

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