Safety and quality initiatives

» Accreditation and Credentialing

• Accreditation
• Credentialing and defining the scope of clinical practice
• National Safety and Quality Standards (external site)

» Clinical governance

• Western Australian Clinical Governance Framework (PDF)
• WA Strategic Plan for Safety and Quality in Health Care 2008-2013 (PDF)

» Clinical incident management

• Clinical incident reporting tools
• Clinical Incident Management System (AIMS)
• Severity Assessment Codes (SAC)
• Sentinel events
• Root cause analysis
• Qualified privilege
• Mortality review

» Education and training

• Education and training database (access to Department of Health intranet is required)
• Draft safety and quality learning areas (access to Department of Health intranet is required)

» Healthcare Associated Infection (external site)

• Mandatory reporting (Operational Directive OD 0197/09)
• HISWA (external site)

» Improving Clinical Quality

• Safety and Quality under Activity Based Funding and Activity Based Management (ABF/ABM)
• SQuIRe Clinical Practice Improvement Program
• Clinical Handover
• Recognising and responding to clinical deterioration

» Involving the patient

• Complaint Management
• Consent to treatment
• Open disclosure
• Patient First Program
• Patients for patient safety workshop (external site)

» Managing Clinical Risk

• Clinical risk management
• Patient identification policy
• WA Health Surgical Safety Checklist
• Correct patient, correct site, correct procedure

» Medication safety

• Standardised charts
• Medication safety alerts
• Pharmaceutical review
• Medication Reconciliation
• National Recommendations for User-applied Labelling of Injectable Medicines, Fluids and Lines

» Patient safety alerts