The School of Public Health and
Preventive Medicine's Centre of Research Excellence in Patient Safety (CREPS)
is hosting a seminar in November.
The seminar is designed to address the challenges involved in
evaluating and improving the quality of care that we provide for complex, often
elderly, medical patients.
Title: Quality Improvement: Measurable and Immeasurable, challenges for the
Generalist
Organiser: Centre of Research Excellence in Patient Safety (CREPS),
Monash University, The Alfred and Department of Health and Human Services
Date: Friday 13 November 2015
Venue: The Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct (AMREP)
Lecture Theatre, 75 Commercial Rd, The Alfred, Melbourne Vic 3004
Cost: $150 trainees and allied health / $295 general rate*
*A 20% discount applies to Monash University staff and
students with payment via internal transfer. Email cost centre, fund source and
delegate name/s to
crepatientsafety@monash.edu.
This seminar will appeal to:
- General Medical Physicians
- Geriatricians
- General Practitioners
- General Medical and
Geriatric nurses
- Aged care nursing
leadership
- Emergency medicine and
nursing staff
- Pharmacists
- Allied Health Practitioners
- Hospital administrators
- Victorian and Australian
Department of Health Managers
- Hospital inreach/outreach
teams and residential care leadership
Background: Elderly medical patients with multiple comorbidities and
polypharmacy are amongst the most frequent users of our public hospitals. There
are many challenges for patients as well as providers to ensure that they
receive the best possible care appropriate for their wishes and needs. The
complex interaction of medical issues, syndromes of ageing and the frequent
accompaniment of disability, frailty and psychosocial issues necessitates
especially careful two-way communication between patients and their families
and their interdisciplinary care teams. Involvement of many staff increases the
likelihood of error, mixed messages or miscommunication.
Despite elderly complex patients constituting the largest patient group in our
public hospitals we have few mechanisms for robust evaluation of the quality of
their care or the effectiveness of our efforts to improve it. New approaches
are required that allow us to readily understand and manage this complexity,
match the resources we provide with their needs and readily identify and
evaluate opportunities for improvement. This seminar draws speakers and
audience from a range of disciplines to help address this challenge.
Keynote Presenters: include Mr Mike Davidge (NHS Wales) and Mr Paul Plsek
(DirectedCreativity.com).
In the early 1980’s Mike was jointly responsible for
creating the first national performance indicators in England and between 1986
and 1992 pioneered reduced waiting times in England and Wales.
Paul is an internationally recognised consultant on innovation
in complex organisations.
Please refer to the
attached flyer for further information, including the seminar program.
