ID-5184 Wonca Abstracts supplement A-K 13-10-23 - Flipbook - Page 338
WONCA 2023 Supplement 1: WONCA 2023 abstracts (A–K)
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Clinical governance within virtual primary care: Creating
and sustaining safer care systems for the community
Dr Emily Kirkpatrick, A/Prof Jill Benson
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The University of Adelaide
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The goal of this interactive skill-building session is to expand participant knowledge of clinical
governance policies and systems, including an understanding of virtual care quality and safety skills for
clinicians to enable safer consumer care within a residential environment.
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Background
National standards in clinical governance, which translate into evidence-based safety and quality
frameworks across the healthcare setting, are critical to patient-centric, safer care. The Australian
Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care’s National safety and quality primary and community
healthcare standards (2021) provide the framework for accreditation for general practices for
implementing quality and safety requirements. However, it is unclear what level of understanding there
is among primary care practitioners of these Standards, especially when delivering virtual care and
telemedicine. The focus of clinical governance systems is primarily on acute hospital facilities, with less
focus on community and primary care, despite financial incentives. Australian general practitioner
(GP) attitudes and beliefs appear to not be well understood and, in particular, the implementation of
clinical governance frameworks and systems within community-based general practice remain
unclear. Clinical governance, with a safety culture, referred to as a framework for continuously
improving a service and ensuring mechanisms for safe care, is fundamental for corporate governance
within healthcare.
It is anticipated that participants in this skills-based workshop will develop an increased understanding
of primary care clinical governance. In addition, take-home practical skills to reduce clinical incidences
occurring when performing virtual care medicine.
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