healthcare quality quest
Ower, Romsey
We develop … Multiprofessional teams in healthcare organizations to — agree on
what needs to be improved for patients test commitment to making the
improvements needed establish valid and reliable baselines that show the effects
of current practice on patients analyse the root causes of problems affecting
practice and act on the causes measure again rapidly to show the impact of
action. In-house healthcare quality, patient safety, risk management and
clinical governance specialist staff to — develop multiprofessional teams to
carry out improvement projects and governance functions use quality and safety
measurement and improvement tools correctly change staff attitudes and
behaviours relating to quality and safety improvement, managing risk and
governance redesign processes and systems to benefit patient care achieve
measured improvements in practice. Healthcare organizational capability to be
accountable for the quality and safety of patient care through — identifying
organizational problems related to being accountable for the quality and safety
of patient care and helping organizations overcome the problems formulating
practical and workable strategies for developing teamwork and effective support
for teams to deliver improvements clarifying lines of accountability for patient
care quality and safety drafting evidence-based policies and standards
developing the right structures and systems to deliver accountability for
quality and safety using internal indicators to evaluate success.
