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3rd Improving Medication Safety

9 March - 10 March 2010
Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Aims of Seminar

Highlight initiatives, structures, systems and strategies that have been successfully implemented and have resulted in improved medication safety for patients.

Showcase best practice, models of care, models of service delivery, tools and resources that have been effective in improving medication safety and/or reducing medication errors.

Showcase strategies for evaluating the effectiveness of medication safety/error reduction initiatives

Confirmed Invited Guests

Graham Bedford, Australian Commission for Safety and Quality in Health Care

Dr Tim Smyth, Deputy Director General, NSW Health

Julie Greenall, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Canada

Paul Warburton, Edgehill University, UK

Dr Mark Yates, Ballarat Health Service, VIC 

Looking for 3 capable session Chairs in exchange for a complimentary registation to both days of the seminar and the networking drinks.  Email changechampions@bigpond.com for more info.

 


 

Webinar - Non Medical Prescribing - the UK Experience

13 November - 13 November 2009
Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Webinar - Aged Care Workforce - Making the Most of a Challenging Situation

12 November - 12 November 2009
Managed from Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Join internationally recognised expert on rostering and workforce management, Roxanne Harms in a 90 minute interactive webinar on Thursday 12 November 2009 from 12.00-13.30 AESST.

Through a 60 minute presentation and 30 minutes audience discussion Roxanne will cover:

  • Rostering as a Recruitment & Retention Strategy in Aged Care
  • Impact of Global Financial Crisis on Recruitment & Retention
  • Improving Roster Quality in Aged Care
  • Rostering for Safe Staffing
  • Organisational Competencies in Workforce Deployment/Rostering
  • Creating Organizational Capacity Through Improved Rostering

Roxanne Harms, Principal and Senior Consultant, Workforce Edge Consulting 

Over the last 18 years, Roxanne Harms has become a recognized global expert in the area of Healthcare Workforce Deployment and Utilisation, through her involvement in over 200 engagements worldwide. Her expertise covers all areas from process reengineering and organizational change to the technical tools that support the sophisticated steps involved in planning and deploying a healthcare workforce to effective rostering techniques. In 2001 Roxanne founded Workforce Edge Consulting and has grown a highly specialized healthcare advisory team dedicated to improving healthcare through improving workforce deployment. From the strategic importance of this critical operational activity to the practical application of the changes necessary for better workforce utilization in healthcare organizations, Roxanne and her team have the unique skill set to assist health organisations in achieving improved clinical and financial outcomes.

For more information about Roxanne Harms, visit the Change Champions consultant listings.  Click on the link on our home page.

Order a recording of the webinar and powerpoint presentations.  Click on CDs on the home page and order on line for $66inc GST per downloadable recording.  Note the vision and audio recording with the presentations will be emailed to you.  You must have Windows Media Player to view.


 

Investing in the Health Workforce: Aligning Strategy, Leadership and the Team

5 November - 6 November 2009
Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Seminar Aims:
• Highlight innovations that address globalism and generational change in the emergent healthcare workforce as they relate to organisational strategy, structure, culture, leadership, people and performance inc:
o Building organisational capability for change, developing leadership capability and the talent base in a digital age
o Social networking in 21st century organisation
o Embracing generational workforce change inc globalism, attraction, retention, developing, supporting and managing emerging workforce etc

• Showcase innovative leadership approaches that have been implemented and have resulted in:
o tangible transformation of organisational strategy into everyday healthcare practice
o successful service redesign/service delivery
o improved capability to manage staff
o team based models of efficient and effective redesigned work practices

• Share redesign strategies/approaches that have been implemented to attract, retain, develop and support the health workforce of the future

• Share effective approaches to education and training that meet organisational and health professional needs including e-learning.

JOIN OUR DISCUSSION GROUP ON LINKED IN, http://www.linkedin.com.

The group is called, Future Proofing the Healthcare Workforce

 

 


 

4th Healthcare Without Walls: Best Care, Most Appropriate Place

28 October - 29 October 2009
Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Seminar Aims:

  •  Highlight successful strategies for ensuring that quality patient care is delivered in the most appropriate setting
  •  Showcase models of service delivery/care that have resulted in hospital avoidance, reduced hospital admissions and/or care closer to home
  •  Highlight strategies for improving the patient journey and the patient experience as they relate to hospital avoidance/reduced hospital admissions and/or care closer to home initiatives

 

Outpatients- Beating the Waiting Game

17 September - 18 September 2009
Cairns, QLD, Australia

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Seminar Aims
-Highlight strategies, systems, structures and redesigns that have resulted in improvements in the delivery of services for outpatients.
-Showcase models of care/service delivery/clinical practice improvement and other innovations projects with demonstrated outcomes that have resulted in an improvement in the co-ordination services for outpatients at the acute, ambulatory care and primary care interface.
-Showcase patient centred approaches to the design, management, co-ordination and delivery of improved services for outpatients.

ROYAL AUSTRALASIAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS CPD PROGRAM

This educational activity has been approved in the College's CPD Program.  Fellows who participate can claim one point per hour (maximum 8 points in Category 4: Maintenance of Clinical Knowledge and Skills towards 2009 CPD totals). 


 

Managing Challenging Behaviours in Older People with Cognitive Impairment

28 May - 29 May 2009
Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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Seminar Aims

• To highlight strategies for managing behaviours that affect access to and the delivery of services/care for older people with cognitive impairment, including what works well and what doesn't work so well.
• To showcase patient centred approaches, models of service delivery/care/respite/support, tools and techniques and other innovations that have been proven to be effective in managing behaviours that impact the care of older people with cognitive impairment.
• To demonstrate effective approaches to education and training for healthcare professionals to better enable them to delivery quality care for older people with cognitive impairment with challenging behaviour.


 

Transitional Care for Older People: making a difference

29 March - 29 March 2009
Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Seminar Aims

  • To share information about the implementation of initiatives, structures, systems and strategies that have improved the patient journey for older people requiring transitional care.

  • To showcase models of care, models of service delivery, tools and other innovations that have been proven effective in the delivery of transitional care for older people.


 

Improving the Delivery of Maternity Care: sharing the lessons learnt

26 February - 27 February 2009
Perth, WA, Australia

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Seminar Aims

  • Highlight strategic directions in the delivery of safe, integrated, effective and appropriate maternity care.
  • Showcase clinical redesign/service improvement initiatives etc with a demonstrated impact on the delivery of safe and effective maternity care.
  • Showcase models of care, best practice approaches, patient experience projects, etc that have been implemented and have improve maternity care delivery.
  • Showcase innovative strategies to retain, recruit or redesign work roles to meet increasing birth rates in an environment of workforce shortage.

 

Improving Quality, Safety and Throughput: The Healthy Hospital

13 November - 14 November 2008
Adelaide, SA, Australia

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Seminar Aims 

  • Provide a forum for health professionals who want to make a difference to exchange ideas about successful strategies that have positively impacted on culture at any level of the organisation (eg hospital wide, management, division, department, team, individual)
  • Foster innovation and creativity to improve quality, safety and throughput in a positive, functional and productive environment for staff, patients and carers 
  • Share information about the impact of successful culture change strategies on quality, safety, patient flows and workforce.

ANZCA CPD Program approval no. 1278, under Category 1/Level 1 – 1 Credit per hour


 

3rd Healthcare Without Walls: Rehabilitation

9 October - 10 October 2008
Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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Seminar Aims
To showcase structures, systems and strategies etc that have resulted in improved access to services for patients/clients requiring rehabilitation and/or their carers.

• To showcase models of service delivery and/or care, best practice and other innovations projects that have demonstrated improved service delivery and quality of care for users of rehabilitation services.

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Hospital Avoidance: Alternatives to Emergency Department Care

2 September - 3 September 2008
Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Change Champions and NSW Health in partnership invite participation in their Toolkit Seminar, Hospital Avoidance: alternatives to the ED. 

Seminar Aims
To showcase innovative models of care that have been successfully implemented to:
. ensure that patient care is delivered in the most appropriate setting

. avoid and/or reduce hospital admissions

. manage emergency demand

. improve the patient journey.


 

3rd Improving Patient Flows: elective surgery

7 August - 8 August 2008
Surfers Paradise, QLD, Australia

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Seminar Aims

  • Inform clinicians and clinical managers about strategies to improve patient flows for elective surgery
  • Showcase models of care/service delivery/financing and innovations projects with demonstrated outcomes that have resulted in an improved access, throughput and the journey for patients undergoing elective surgery
  • Showcase systems/ redesign projects that have demonstrated effectiveness in improving patient flows for elective surgery.

 

Improving Patient Flows: diagnostics and investigations

19 June - 19 June 2008
The Rocks, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Seminar Aims

  • To showcase structures, systems and strategies, including clinical redesign and clinical practice improvement initiatives, that have resulted in improvements to patient flows through improved access to, and delivery of diagnostic and investigative services including results reporting
  • To showcase models of service delivery and/or care, policies, processes and other innovations projects that have demonstrated improved quality, safety and efficiency of ordering, diagnostic testing/imaging and other investigations and results reporting.

 

The Hospital After Hours

29 May - 30 May 2008
Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Seminar Aim

  • To showcase and share lessons learnt about structures, systems and strategies, (including models of care/service delivery, clinical redesign and clinical practice improvement initiatives) that have resulted in improvements to patient safety, quality and efficiency in hospitals after hours.

 

Improving the Management of Cognitive Impairment for Older People

17 April - 18 April 2008
Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Aims of Seminar
  • To share information about the implementation of initiatives, structures, systems and strategies that have improved service delivery and management of cognitive impairment in older people, including sharing the lessons learnt.
  • To showcase models of care, models of service delivery, tools and other innovations that have been effective in improving service delivery and management of older patients with cognitive impairment.

 


 

Improving Medication Safety:sharing the lessons learnt

5 March - 7 March 2008
Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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Seminar Aims

  • To share information about initiatives, structures, systems and strategies that have been successfully implemented and have improved medication safety for patients.
  • To showcase best practice, models of care, models of service delivery, tools and resources that have been effective in improving medication safety and/or reducing medication errors.

 

Skill Mix and Workforce Development: sharing the lessons learnt

22 November - 23 November 2007
Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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Improving Clinical Handover: sharing the lessons learnt

25 October - 26 October 2007
Pyrmont, NSW, Australia

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Improving the Delivery of Services for Outpatients: sharing the lessons learnt

27 September - 28 September 2007
Brisbane, QLD, Australia

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2nd Healthcare Without Walls: delivering the best care in the best place

2 August - 3 August 2007
Brisbane, QLD, Australia

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Clinical Pathways: sharing the lessons learnt

28 June - 29 June 2007
Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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Improving Prevention and Clinical Management of Obesity

17 May - 18 May 2007
East Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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Improving the Delivery of Emergency Care: sharing the lessons learnt

10 May - 11 May 2007
Brisbane, QLD, Australia

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