Quality and Safety in Healthcare Delivery

As part of Private Healthcare Australia’s commitment to Better Health, Better Care and Better Outcomes, we are focused on enhancing the value of private health insurance through safety and quality mechanisms and aims to support decision making through:

  • Analysing variations in clinical practice outcomes

  • Monitoring Safety and quality of clinical services

  • Identifying unwanted variations by measuring under-use, overuse or misuse of provider treatments

  • Benchmarking

  • Monitoring affordability

  • Measuring capacity

  • Enhancing completeness and integrity of data

Private Healthcare Australia’s Clinical Performance Research Unit (CPRU) has developed a framework for analysis of Hospital Casemix Protocol (HCP) episode level data to focus on:

  • Variations in Clinical Practice

  • Variations in Clinical Outcome

  • Cost Effectiveness

This monitoring of safety and quality indicators such as unplanned re-admissions to hospital, hospital acquired infections and hospital standardised mortality rates will help to ensure that we maintain excellence in care within the private sector through the delivery of healthcare services that are continually assessed and monitored.

Private Healthcare Australia developed a Quality and Safety Framework in 2007. It aims to establish a systematic approach to monitoring and measuring outcomes associated with the safe delivery of healthcare services provided within the private sector and to ensure that private hospitals are engaged in quality improvement programs throughout the patient’s continum of care. >>Read More

Comments

  • miahorrigan
    21 October 2011

    Hi Arieta,

    We do not have specific info on safety and quality and the role of enrolled nurses so I would suggest you check with the saftey and quality commission (see link below)

    http://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/

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