Safety & Quality Account 2020-21 | 2021-22 Future Priorities

Our Commitment to Safety and Quality WSLHD Safety & Quality Account

WSLHD is committed to creating an environment which continuously improves the care provided to our community by ensuring the principles of quality, safety and the patient experience underpin everything we do.

CREATING A POSITIVE PATIENT SAFETY CULTURE

We are focused on creating a culture where staff are proactive in engaging with patients and the community to meet our shared safety and quality goals. We promote transparency in reporting and feedback from staff and consumers alike to report near misses, adverse events and incidents. We are achieving this by building capacity, capability and enhancing leadership across WSLHD, as well as embedding safety and quality into our business as usual process. Committees, escalation pathways and structures have been established across WSLHD to support improvement in all safety and quality matters. Risks, near misses and incidents are reported by frontline staff in each facility and service, with significant risks escalated all the way to the Chief Executive and the WSLHD Board. Further work will be undertaken over the next 12 months to strengthen accountability across the District and clearly articulate reporting pathways from our frontline staff to our Executives.

Quality Related Committees

WSLHD Board Committees

WSLHD BOARD

New Interventional Procedures Committee

Audit and Risk

Health Care Quality Committee

Nominations Committee

Drug Committee

Venous Thromboembolism

Research and Development

Safety & Quality Operational Committee

Infection Prevention and Control

Professional Education

Facility Quality & Safety Committee

End of Life

Finance Performance and Assets

Falls Committee

Escalation process including Morbidity & Mortality meetings

Patient Safety agenda items on department/ward meetings

PHOTO: Westmead Emergency Department new colour coded trolleys. Amy Sustek (Reg Nurse).

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