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Together Achieving Better Health Conference
Nepean Blue Mountains Event


Clinical Excellence Commission’s Chief Executive, Carrie Marr, and Director of Development, Alison Starr, attended the Together Achieving Better Health Conference, hosted by Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District.

At the Conference, Ms. Marr’s presentation, Reliable Healthcare is a Journey, not a Destination, was heard by a range of health professionals from across NSW.
 Palliative Care NSW Biennial State Conference

8–10 November 2018

The Clinical Excellence Commission has been awarded the Best Overall Poster Presentation for its poster ‘Community Pharmacy Palliative Care Initiative’, at the Palliative Care NSW Biennial State Conference, held in Kiama.

The conference theme was “Riding the Waves of Change” with presentations and discussions exploring how palliative and end of life care has been provided in the past, what the challenges are now, and how we can prepare to embrace opportunities in the future.
 Shanghai Hospital President Delegation


On Thursday 11 October, the Clinical Excellence Commission presented to a senior health administrators delegation from Shanghai, China, at the invitation of the University of Sydney, who organised the delegation’s two-week program from 8 - 19 October.

The delegation consisted of 24 presidents from the top Chinese public hospitals in Shanghai and two senior officers from the Shanghai Hospital Development Centre (SHDC) - the headquarters of Shanghai Municipal Hospital Group.
 Master Clinician's Guide Launch

7 May 2018

NSW Health Secretary, Elizabeth Koff, officially launched the Master Clinician's Guide to Quality and Safety on 7 May. The Guide provides expert tools and resources to help healthcare staff foster a culture of safe, high-quality care.

Written by senior clinicians and safety experts, the Master's Guide is a follow-on from the
Clinician’s Guide to Quality and Safety.
 REACH partner Naomi Day awarded for her commitment to improving healthcare


We have a proud history of working in partnership with Grant and Naomi Day who have become powerful patient safety advocates and determined supporters of our REACH program, since the tragic death of their young son Kyran in 2013.

In March 2018, Naomi’s endless spirit of co-operation and commitment to making healthcare better was recognised with her winning the Heart of Women award in her local community on the NSW North Coast.
 Prof Oates Honoured in Vietnam


We were proud of our Director Undergrad Quality and Safety Education Prof Kim Oates who received the For People’s Health Medal from the Vietnamese Government during a special ceremony in Hanoi this March.

Prof Oates is a leader in NSW healthcare and has been sharing his expertise with students and health staff in Vietnam for about a decade.
 Working together to reduce serious harm from falls


More than 180 clinicians from 42 teams across the NSW health system met in Sydney on 28 February 2018 to reduce serious patient harm from falls in NSW hospitals.

The event was the second of four learning sets for the Falls Collaborative, with the third and fourth sets to run in May and September, respectively.

The main focus for the learning set was on reliability by design, using Quality Improvement Science.
 New electronic tool launched to help reduce VTE risk


An electronic tool designed to assess a patient’s risk of developing blood clots (also known as Venous Thromboembolism, or VTE) was ‘launched’ at Prince of Wales Hospital on Monday 19 February 2018.

A collaboration between eHealth NSW and the Clinical Excellence Commission (CEC), the VTE risk assessment package has been designed to support clinicians in identifying, measuring and documenting the VTE risk for adult patients in the inpatient setting.
 Extending our REACH

 Researching and identifying healthcare infections


The Clinical Excellence Commission is partnering with other health organisations to develop a statewide network for rapid detection of healthcare associated infection outbreaks.

The research will be led by Chief Investigators Dr Matthew O’Sullivan, Western Sydney Local Health District, NSW Health Pathology, and Joe-Anne Bendall, Clinical Excellence Commission.
 HARC Scholar Sets Sights on Improving Response to Superbugs


Healthcare Associated Infections project officer Amy Bisson is set to investigate ways to co-ordinate planned responses to multi-drug resistant organisms for NSW patients after being named a 2017 HARC Scholar by the Sax Institute.

Amy has an interest in the emerging threat posed by prominent super-bug carbapenemase-producing Enterobaceriaceae (CPE) which is posing huge challenges internationally.
 Clinical Decision Support Trial in NSW 2016 - 2018


The Pilot of a Clinical Decision Support (CDS) tool, called OrderWise™, developed by Canadian company MedCurrent is underway at Liverpool and Royal North Shore hospitals and will run throughout 2016-18, with support from the CEC and the NSW Ministry of Health.

The CDS tool is built into the CERNER platform and is combined with the UK Royal College of Radiologists’ evidence-based referral guidelines (iRefer) to address appropriate imaging for many patient presentations.
 CEC learning content recognised internationally


Two learning and development programs, for which CEC was a major contributor, have been recognised through the Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards Program.

Awarded to the Health Education Training Institute, End of Life Conversations took out the Gold Award for Best use of Blended Learning, and the Central Venous Access Devices training was awarded Silver in the Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development category. SEPSIS KILLS: simple treatment saves lives


New research out in the Medical Journal of Australia shows NSW emergency departments have been able to improve how they identify and treat patients with sepsis with the Clinical Excellence Commission's SEPSIS KILLS program.

Sepsis is a medical emergency and the research shows simple, early treatment saves lives.

The paper's authors wrote the number of patients receiving antibiotics in the first 60 minutes had risen from 29.3% in 2009-11 to 52.2% in 2013. Each year about 6000 NSW patients are hospitalised with sepsis and since the introduction of SEPSIS KILLS about 150 lives are saved each year through the care improvements.
Read more: MJA & MJA InSight Hand Hygiene focus in SMH


Hand hygiene is one of the most important things health workers can do to protect their patients from infection but if you were a patient in hospital would you ask a health professional if they’d cleaned their hands?

In this edition of the Sydney Morning Herald, our clinical advisor Prof Kim Oates provides comment and says asking health professionals if they have cleaned their hands is not only okay but also a good start for any patient looking to protect themselves from the risk of infection.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/the-question-every-patient-should-ask-their-doctor-20160112-gm4mgt.html Orange Health Service implementing In Safe Hands

7 November 2012

Dr Charles Pain, Director, Health Systems Performance, Dr Gabriel Shannon, General Physician, Orange Health Service and Dr Jason Stein, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, USA were interviewed by Angela Owens from ABC Central West. The interview focused on the work done at Orange Health Service 4AMU in implementing In Safe Hands and the use of Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounds to improve teamwork and communication between clinicians.

Click here to listen ~ opens new window.