Common use of Safety and Quality Accounts Clause in Contracts

Safety and Quality Accounts. The Organisation will complete a Safety and Quality Account to document achievements, and affirm an ongoing commitment to improving and integrating safety and quality into their functions. The Account provides information about the safety and quality of care delivered by the Organisation, including key state-wide mandatory measures, patient safety priorities, service improvements, integration initiatives, and three additional locally selected high priority measures. Locally selected high priority measures must demonstrate a holistic approach to safety and quality, and at least one of these must focus on improving safety and quality for Aboriginal patients. The Account must also demonstrate how the Organisation meets Standard 1. Clinical Governance, of the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards, which describes the clinical governance, and safety and quality systems that are required to maintain and improve the reliability, safety and quality of health care, and improve health outcomes for patients. Standard 1 ensures that frontline clinicians, managers and members of governing bodies, such as boards, are accountable to patients and the community for assuring the delivery of health services that are safe, effective, integrated, high quality and continuously improving. Consistent with the National Health Reform Agreement, The Organisation must continue to focus on reducing the incidence of hospital acquired complications. Through the Purchasing Framework, NSW Health has incentivised Districts and Networks to invest in quality improvement initiatives that specifically target these complications. It is expected that the Safety and Quality Account articulates these initiatives and provides details on approaches and outcomes.

Safety and Quality Accounts. The Organisation will complete a Safety and Quality Account to document achievements, and affirm an ongoing commitment to improving and integrating safety and quality into their functions. The Account provides information about the safety and quality of care delivered by the Organisation, including key state-wide mandatory measures, patient safety priorities, service improvements, integration initiatives, and three additional locally selected high priority measures. Locally selected high priority measures must demonstrate a holistic approach to safety and quality, and at least one of these must focus on improving safety and quality for Aboriginal patients. The Account must also demonstrate how the Organisation meets Standard 1. Clinical Governance, of the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards, which describes the clinical governance, and safety and quality systems that are required to maintain and improve the reliability, safety and quality of health care, and improve health outcomes for patients. Standard 1 ensures that frontline clinicians, managers and members of governing bodies, such as boards, are accountable to patients and the community for assuring the delivery of health services that are safe, effective, integrated, high quality and continuously improving. Consistent with the National Health Reform Agreement, The the Organisation must continue to focus on reducing the incidence of hospital acquired complications. Through the Purchasing Framework, NSW Health has incentivised Districts and Networks to invest in quality improvement initiatives that specifically target these complications. It is expected that the Safety and Quality Account articulates these initiatives and provides details on approaches and outcomes.

Safety and Quality Accounts. The Organisation will complete a Safety and Quality Account Accounts to document achievements, and affirm an ongoing commitment to improving and integrating safety and quality into their functions. The Account provides information about the safety and quality of care delivered by the Organisation, including key state-wide mandatory measures, patient safety priorities, service improvements, integration initiatives, and three additional locally selected high priority measures. Locally selected high priority measures must demonstrate a holistic approach to safety and quality, and at least one of these must focus on improving safety and quality for Aboriginal patients. The Account must also demonstrate how the Organisation meets Standard 1. Clinical Governance, of the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards, which describes the clinical governance, and safety and quality systems that are required to maintain and improve the reliability, safety and quality of health care, and improve health outcomes for patients. Standard 1 ensures that frontline clinicians, managers and members of governing bodies, such as boards, are accountable to patients and the community for assuring the delivery of health services that are safe, effective, integrated, high quality and continuously improving. Consistent with the National Health Reform Agreement, The the Organisation must continue to focus on reducing the incidence of hospital acquired complications. Through the Purchasing Framework, NSW Health has incentivised Districts and Networks to invest in quality improvement initiatives that specifically target these complications. It is expected that the Safety and Quality Account articulates these initiatives and provides details on approaches and outcomes.