Mental Health Program Webinar with the Safety and Quality Commission
Health Roundtable members polled earlier in the year told us they wanted to hear from the Commission. Close to 30 members attended a virtual session with Andrew Moors, Principal Advisor – Mental Health from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
This was a unique opportunity for our members to interface directly with the Commission and provide feedback on the standards.
Members learned areas that consistently perform well, identifying self harm and areas on training and performance management which continues to be an area of need.
Robust conversations were held on the need for data specific to Mental Health from the Commission. Andrew informed the Commission is undertaking a comprehensive review of the second edition of the National Standards. There will be opportunities to provide direct input into the development of the third edition of the Standards.
Understanding Patient Complexity and Appropriate Models of Care
Close to 40 members attended the webinar on identifying complexity and sharing of innovations for new models of care for caring complex patient populations.
Health Roundtable shared data on the growing patient complexity seen within Health Roundtable data along indicators on financial sustainability related to increasing complexity in the system.
Dr Jacinta Lewis from Logan Hospital shared her journey to support the creation of a ward dedicated to the most frail, complex patients including social complexity and the introduction of a telehealth handover process.
Raewyn Dean and Beverly from Waikato Hospital walked members through their program set up to identify complex, frail patients before being admitted and how they are managed in the community.
The session closed out with members learning how to identify complexity in their specific populations using their Health Roundtable data.
Australian National Standards Webinar
Close to 90 members attended the Australian National Standards webinar which unveiled the new National Standards view in Insights. Health Roundtable worked with the Patient Safety Advisory group to review metrics for inclusion under each of the 8 standards. The result is a more contemporary view more closely aligned to the second edition of the National Standards. Health Roundtable members shared their excitement to use this new view at their Standards committees. Health Roundtable will continue working with accreditation assessors with the goal to have the National Standards view in Insights endorsed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care to support short notice accreditation.
Health Roundtable Emergency Care Program Webinar: Unpacking Complexity in Australian and New Zealand Emergency Departments: Myth or Reality?
This was a collaborative presentation delivered with our Analytics team. With over 20 attendees we present a national review of changing complexity of presentations to Emergency Departments for both Australia and Aotearoa.
We presented on a retrospective data analysis of Emergency Activity using the AECC framework and other measures to review complexity of patient presenting to Emergency Departments in Australia from 2019-2024. We also discussed the impact of complexity growing LOS and the financial implications of this on revenue and cost.
In the session we also explored current activities being undertaken to deal with increasing complexity in ED’s from our members. We also survey the members on additional elements that should be included to better capture complexity in Emergency Departments for future benchmarking. This generated some great insights to take forward for investigation. This review will also be presented at the Australian College of Emergency Medicine Conference on Wednesday 27 November in Adelaide.
Comfort Zone: Hospital Care for Kids at Home
In this webinar over 20 members representing 8 health services came together to explore and discuss the Health Roundtable analysis of Paediatric Hospital in the Home uptake in Australia and the models of care that are being delivered by participating health services.
There was a wide ranging discussion; from the most common DRGs managed by HITH services, through the specialist expertise required for neonates compared to paediatric patient cohorts; to engagement and activation of the indigenous workforce to better support the increasing numbers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands who access Paediatric HITH services.
The discussion was lively and participants welcomed the opportunity for collaboration and connection with the Health Roundtable data as the basis for discussing models of care. The enthusiasm of this group to continue to build this community of practice and work together to improve and expand HITH services across Australia was evident throughout.
