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Clinical Practice Improvement
Good clinical practice improvement works at both the clinician and strategic level to improve the quality and safety of patient care. The fundamental tools of clinical practice improvement include the application of validated measurement tools to assess and benchmark current practice, engaging stakeholders in the evaluation and process improvement and developing systems to support sustainable progress towards achievable solutions to service delivery gaps.
Hunter New England Health is committed to clinical practice improvement. A key role of Clinical Governance is to ensure appropriate safety and quality systems are in place to achieve clinical practice improvement and that there is a system in place to ensure organisational accountability for this.
Current initiatives for HNE Health include priority issues identified by NSW Health and the Clinical Excellence Commission as areas associated with clinical practice improvement and substantial adverse outcomes. These include:
- Falls Injury prevention
- Infection Prevention and Control
- Correct Patient, Correct Site, Correct Procedure
- Pressure Ulcer Prevention
- Quality Use of Medicines
- Transfusion Medicine
- Clinical Communication
Clinical practice improvement requires knowledge of the key principles of quality improvement methodology and their application in clinical practice. Key practices include clinical practice review, clinical audit, morbidity and mortality review. NSW Health has published a number of guidelines to support clinicians to improve patient care through the translation of evidence into clinical practice and to measure the impact. These include the Easy Guide to Clinical Practice Improvement and The Clinician’s Toolkit. To access those listed below click on the hyperlink:
- Easy Guide to Clinical Practice Improvement
- The Clinician’s Toolkit The Clinician's Toolkit for Improving Patient Care
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