Question

The National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards Briefly describe the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards, ( in 10-20 words each) 5.1) Governance for Safety and Quality in Health Service Organisations 5.2) Partnering with Consumers 5.3) Preventing and Controlling Healthcare Associated Infections 5.4) Medication Safety 5.5) Patient Identification and Procedure Matching 5.6) Clinical Handover 5.7) Blood and Blood Products 5.8) Preventing and Managing Pressure Injuries 5.9) Recognising and Responding to Clinical Deterioration in Acute Health Care 5.10) Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls

Answer 1

The main purpose of these standards is to provide a uniform set of measures of safety and quality which is consistent in health care services of whole nation. These are evidence-based improvement strategies which aims to fulfil the with gaps between current and best practice outcomes.

1. Governance for Safety and Quality in Health Service Organizations: It is the quality framework required for health service organizations to implement safe systems.

2. Partnering with Consumers: It describes strategies to create a consumer-centered health system by including consumers in the development and design of quality health care.

3. Preventing and Controlling Healthcare Associated Infections: It describes the systems and strategies to prevent infection of patients within the healthcare system and to manage infections effectively when they occur to minimize the consequences.

4. Medication Safety: It describes the systems and strategies to ensure clinicians safely prescribe, dispense and administer appropriate medicines to informed patients.

5. Patient Identification and Procedure Matching: It describes the systems and strategies to identify patients and correctly match their identity with the correct treatment.

6. Clinical Handover: It describes the systems and strategies for effective clinical communication whenever accountability and responsibility for a patient’s care is transferred.

7. Blood and Blood Products: It describes the systems and strategies for the safe, effective and appropriate management of blood and blood products so the patients receiving blood are safe.

8. Preventing and Managing Pressure Injuries: It describes the systems and strategies to prevent patients developing pressure injuries and best practice management when pressure injuries occur.

9. Recognizing and Responding to Clinical Deterioration in Acute Health Care: It describes the systems and processes to be implemented by health service organizations to respond effectively to patients when their clinical condition deteriorates.

10. Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls: It describes the systems and strategies to reduce the incidence of patient falls in health service organizations and best practice management when falls do occur.