Defining the Quality Challenge '''

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Defining the Quality Challenge ...
Victorian Quality Council - approach

• Expert advisory council that will
• provide a framework with clear standards and
  priorities
• enable quality-driven policy and practice
• build stakeholder partnerships
• gain political buy-in
• enable better data collection
• provide training link quality groups
• re-design systems promulgate standards
• increase and support stronger accountability and
  transparency

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Defining the Quality Challenge ...
Victorian Quality Council - business rules

• Improve quality safety
• Base policies decisions on best available
  evidence
• Decide priorities by health impact, cost,
  amenability to change
• Collaborate with existing quality organizations
• Be pro-active, credible, results-driven,
  connected
• Apply quality principles to its own processes
• Integrate safety quality policies activities
• Support targeted, systematic, reliable data
  collection
• Involve/inform community and consumers

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Defining the Quality Challenge ...
Victorian Quality Council - roles
responsibilities

• Overall role is safety and quality strategy and
  governance
• Executive is operational - look after business
• Secretariat has a strong support role
• Executive is actively involved in working groups
• All members on a working group

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Defining the Quality Challenge ...
Victorian Quality Council - strategy action

• Strategy
• Governance
• Data management and feedback
• Consumer participation communication
• National safety and quality agenda
• Education and training
• Consistency with DHS Quality Plan

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Defining the Quality Challenge ...
Victorian Quality Council - strategy and action

• Priorities
• medication safety
• infection control
• pressure injury prevention
• blood and blood products safety
• falls prevention
• appropriateness of care (suitability to practice)

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Defining the Quality Challenge ...
Victorian Quality Council - performance goals

• Minimum data set for regular reports to
  stakeholders
• Robust Sentinel Event Reporting System
• Medico-legal restrictions overcome re data
• Registries for selected treatments
• Streamlined quality data collection and
  reporting
• Capacity to involve community increased
• Consumer representation increased
• Target groups educated
• National agenda responded to
• Strong association with ACSQHC

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Defining the Quality Challenge ...
Victorian Quality Council - current activities

• 3-year Strategic Plan and one-page summary
• 12-month Action Plan
• Report to Minister on where we are at and Action
  Plan
• Developed through Working Groups, Executive and
  full Council

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Defining the Quality Challenge ...
Take-home Messages

• continuous leadership and high level support
• practical proposals that will make a difference
• agenda to reduce harm adverse events
• evidence of progress improvements
• targeted, purposeful, reliable data
• suitability to practice appropriateness of
  care
• positive incentives and resources to make
  improvements
• consumers/communities listened to involved
• legislative change education to overcome
  barriers