Safety Learning System
The Safety Learning System is used for the management of patient incidents, staff incidents and consumer feedback for ongoing improvement
Governance for Safety and Quality
Governance incorporates the set of processes, customs, policy directives, laws and conventions affecting the way an organisation is directed, administered or controlled.
Standard One: Clinical Governance, within the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (second edition) describes integrated systems that maintain and improve the reliability and quality of patient care, as well as improve patient outcomes, including the following four criteria:
- Governance, leadership and culture - Leaders at all levels in the organisation set up and use clinical governance systems to improve the safety and quality of health care for patients.
- Patient safety and quality systems - Safety and quality systems are integrated with governance processes to enable organisations to actively manage and improve the safety and quality of health care for patients.
- Clinical performance and effectiveness - The workforce the right qualifications, skills and supervision to provide safe, high quality health care to patients.
- Safe environment for the delivery of care - The environment promotes safe and high-quality health care for patients.
Key SA Health policy frameworks and toolkits
- Charter of Health and Community Services
- Consumer engagement
- Consumer feedback and complaint management
- Coronial process
- Credentialling
- Accreditation resources for National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards
- Part 7 - Protected committees for Safety and Quality assessments
- Patient incident management and open disclosure
- Root Cause Analysis, including Root Cause Analysis training
- Standards and accreditation for safety and quality in healthcare.
Contact
Safety and Quality Unit
Email: Health.DHWClinicalGovernanceEnquiries@sa.gov.au