Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

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AUSTRALIANCOMMISSIONON SAFETYANDQUALITYINHEALTHCAR
E Dr Diana Horvath AO Chief
Executive
2 November 2006
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The Commission Role

• The Commission undertakes the following
  functions
• leads and coordinates improvements in safety and
  quality in health care in Australia by
  identifying issues and policy directions,
  recommending priorities for action, disseminating
  knowledge, and advocating for safety and quality
• reports publicly on the state of safety and
  quality including performance against national
  standards
• recommends national data sets for safety and
  quality, working within current multilateral
  governmental arrangements for data development,
  standards, collection and reporting
• provides strategic advice to Health Ministers on
  best practice thinking to drive quality
  improvement, including implementation strategies
  and
• recommends nationally agreed standards for safety
  and quality improvement.

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Governance
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Stakeholder Management

• There is a large range of stakeholders,
  which might broadly be clustered into these
  groupings
• Consumers and their organisations
• Health Care Professionals and their organisations
  both educational industrial
• Owners of health care facilities corporate,
  charitable government
• 3rd party payers health insurance funds
  indemnity insurers Medicare Aust.
• Information management professionals
  organisations
• Managers of all types

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The Commission Members

• Independent Chair ------ (TBA)
• ACTING CHAIR ----- Ms Jane Halton (Cwealth) CE
  of Dept of Health Ageing
• Mr Richard Bowden (Vic) GM of BUPA Health Care
  (HBA Mutual Com)
• Ms Rosemary Bryant (ACT) CE of Royal Aust College
  of Nursing
• Ms Christine Gee (Qld) CE of Toowong Private
  (psychiatric) Hospital
• Prof Katherine McGrath (NSW) Deputy D-G of NSW
  Dept of Health
• Dr Christopher Newell (Tas) Consumer Rep
  Assoc/Prof Medical Ethics
• Ms Uschi Schreiber (Qld) CE Qld Health
• Dr Shiong Tan (WA) General Practitioner
• Prof Michael Ward (Qld) Academic
  Gastroenterologist
• Dr Tarun Weeramanthri (NT) Physician Researcher
• Ms Jennifer Williams (Vic) CE of Bayside Health

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Commission Staff July 2006

• Chief Executive ---- Dr Diana Horvath AO
• Deputy Chief Executive ---- Mr Bill Lawrence
• Personal Assistant ---- Ms Roben Hapgood
• Communication Manager ---- Ms Sue Kerr
• Senior Medical Adviser ---- Dr Christine Jorm
• Information Strategies ---- Dr Paul Tridgell
• Policy Team Managers ---- Ms Margaret Banks Mr
  Michael ORourke
• Data Manager ---- Ms Ros Madden
• Manager Secretariat ---- Mr Graham Bedford
• Business Manager ---- Mr Erwin Winkler
• Records Information ---- Mr Geoff Hitchcock
• Project officer ---- Sara Twohill

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Consumer Focus
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Priorities

• An agreed National Framework
• Encompass the whole of health care
• Accreditation of hospitals practice settings
• National Professional Registration (now COAG)
• Credentialing for high risk procedures
• Monitoring public reporting
• Consumer Pathways
• Relationships with other bodies

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Customisation
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Hospital Safety and Quality Indicators

• Examine existing data sets for utility
• Establish appropriate advisory committee
  structure
• Outcome Registries
• Device Registries
• Work with data custodians
• Effector organisations

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Appropriateness
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Method of Operating

• National focus
• Partnerships collaboration
• Provider consumer to share responsibility for
  outcomes
• Open honest communication
• Simplify not complicate use evidence
• Use levers for safety quality
• Engage technology e-health
• Foster a thinking workforce community

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Questions
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