Page 1981 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 5 June 2018
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management teams, an accreditation coordination team has been established to oversee and monitor this detailed program plan and escalate issues where actions need to be accelerated.
A comprehensive assurance activity is currently underway, mapping activity against the requirements of the national standards. This is to ensure actions will meet the national standards and, if not, identify further activity required. Quality officers have been moved to be located at Canberra Hospital and are undertaking audits and developing improvement processes to assist each division to address identified areas for improvement in the not-met report.
There is considerable activity and work being undertaken at ACT Health to ensure its accreditation next month. The interim director-general has taken a very proactive approach by keeping in regular contact with the ACHS and the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care to check expectations and requirements around the not-met actions and to seek clarification and advice on ACT Health’s progress.
More recently, senior staff from the commission spent a day with key ACT Health staff last month so that they can be certain that all staff understand the expectations and what is required. The commission is the body which sets the standards that ACT Health are working towards meeting. They provide greater clarity as to the requirements necessary to meet accreditation against the not-mets. This will assist ACT Health to monitor progress and keep up the momentum in anticipation of re-accreditation.
I would like to conclude by acknowledging the many dedicated people working in our health workforce: the doctors, nurses, allied health workers, kitchen and laundry staff and many more. They are there to ensure that the Canberra community receives the highest level of health care. They are doing, and will continue to do, an outstanding job.
While it is very important at this stage to focus on the areas for improvement and the standards that have not yet been met, of course the accreditation process also highlights many of the good and outstanding things that ACT Health does.
I acknowledge the many years of experience that many of the ACT Health workforce bring to ACT Health and to the health sector. The next few months and beyond will build on this skill and experience, and have created an opportunity for ACT Health to set its course for a bright and sustainable future.
From the government’s perspective, we remain absolutely committed to investing in patient-centred health care to our community, to investing in staff, and to building the right infrastructure that our growing city needs to provide the right health care in the right place at the right time.
However, the focus for ACT Health at the moment must be on making the necessary improvements. The Minister for Mental Health and I are confident that every effort is
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