Systems improvement medical specialist helping improve patient outcomes and staff experience through competent leadership leading to safe and high quality care
Prof Michael Nicholl and Dr
Harvey Lander discussing how to
strengthen patient safety systems
at scale.
Discover the CEC’s Resilience
Assessment in Maternity Service resources https://t.co/dwFDPwSkDA
#Quality2022#patientsafety#Quality2022
Today is International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day.
The CEC recognises this significant day by acknowledging the thousands of women and their families who endure the pain of pregnancy loss and honour the babies no longer with us.
Personal protective equipment for combined transmission-based precautions. This module provides health workers with clear instructions on how to safely put on & remove PPE when caring for patients with infections that are transmitted through more than one route, such as COVID-19.
Today is #WorldPatientSafetyDay. This year’s theme is "Safe maternal & newborn care". CEC continues to support clinicians to provide safe maternal and newborn care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Find out more about our Maternity and Neonatal Safety Program: https://t.co/2Ifb40SY2f
Looking for ways to analyze both cognitive and systems factors in diagnostic errors?
Fishbone a good way to start. Check out this example in the context of COVID by @YasamanFatemi @susancoffin in Diagnosis journal
https://t.co/y8epJCGkaL
You hear COVID vaccines are highly effective, & protection will last years.
But you also hear people are getting COVID even after 2 doses of vaccines, & some have died.
What gives? Here are 4 reasons why excellent vaccines sometimes appear not to work:
Thread below 👇
CEC Quality Improvement Toolkits are now available online. There are Toolkits in six areas of identified preventable harm. And there's an opportunity to join an online community of practice. Sign up for a webinar on 22 June or 24 June https://t.co/X6D4hRwqyp #CECToolkits
Today we celebrate International Day of the Midwife.
CEC Chief Executive, @carriemarr sends a special message, “Wishing all Midwives, the very best on this special day of recognition”.
#IDM2021
https://t.co/wTuTrdafGV via
@YouTube
CEC congratulates all our hand hygiene heroes on World Hand Hygiene Day.
It might be the Rockstar of Covid-19, but it's also the foundation to all infection control.
Meet Bridgid Lovemore helping maintain standards in NSW health settings: https://t.co/Rs0D65khiB
#HandHygiene
What are CEC toolkits? Come along to today’s webinar for a preview of the range of toolkits soon to be available on the CEC website: https://t.co/Ro6OjaeEWC
#PatientSafetyAwarenessWeek
Get involved in Patient Safety Awareness Week – there's activities every day to discover initiatives from the CEC that are making a difference at the front line: https://t.co/Ro6OjaeEWC
#PatientSafetyAwarenessWeek
2021 brings a fresh beginning for some. This young man, related to me, has infinitely more musical talent. Wrote the words in 15 mins, designed the song and then, with some help from his uncle who helped, produced it in less than a day. Happy New Year
https://t.co/eyr3Ij2viX
Working with Northern Sydney LHD, visiting Hornsby Hospital this week to help prevent harm to older patients in particular. Looking forward to speaking and working with clinicians and management
Adult Patient Safety Team https://t.co/vKpk5I7GMj
The Senior Clinical Advisor Obstetrics NSW Ministry of Health (MoH) and CEC have been commissioned by a number of LHDs to undertake resilience assessments of their maternity services. Brilliant methodology - if interested I can share what we do and how it can help
The Adult, Paediatric, Maternal and Newborn sepsis pathways have helped nurses and doctors to more quickly and reliably identify sepsis, start treatment and reduce harm from sepsis. Find out more about the pathways here: https://t.co/b6ueqgwxpO #wsd20