List of Phase 2 Advisory Committee members (2019-2020)
The role of the Advisory Committee is to provide high level guidance and advice on the deliverables of the project and provide a point of liaison between the Commission and peer groups.
Mental Health Program
Within the Commission’s remit, the focus of the program is on safety and quality in the delivery of health services to people with lived experience of mental health issues. This applies both to services:
On this page are links to a range of tools and resources to support health service organisations to deliver comprehensive care
Organisational requirements to support the delivery of comprehensive care
Seven key attributes common in high-performing person-centred healthcare organisations have been identified. Collectively, the seven attributes provide an ideal organisational model for supporting consistent and excellent person-centred care.
There are a number of strategies that can be used make changes and improve processes of care, some of which have been identified in the National Consensus Statement: Essential elements for safe and high-quality end-of-life care.
Analysis plan
This analysis plan can be used to inform guidance on the audit tool and clinician survey design, including eligibility and inclusion criteria, data checking and cleansing, and suggested analysis methods.
End-of-life care audit tool
This supports collection of data from clinical records to provide a picture of current end-of-life processes within a hospital.
Reports on antimicrobial use and appropriateness in the community include data from aged care homes, general practice, community health services and other non-hospital settings.
Definition of 'hospital readmission'
A hospital readmission occurs when a patient has been discharged from hospital and is admitted again within a certain time interval.
Generally, hospital readmissions can be considered in two broad categories: