What is quality and safety information
9 What is quality and safety information
Quality and safety information, about a public sector health service facility or private health facility, is—
information about the facility’s accreditation and performance against the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards; orNote—
The National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards are available on the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care’s website.
any of the following information prescribed by regulation—
access to care information;
activity information;
patient outcome information;
process of care information;
other information relating to the quality and safety of health services provided at the facility.
In this section—
access to care information means information about the time frames in which health services are provided to patients at or by the facility, including, for example—
the percentage of patients treated within clinically recommended times at the facility; and
the number of patients waiting for a health service at the facility.
activity information means—
information about patients admitted to a facility, including, for example—
the number of patients admitted to and discharged from the facility; and
the reason for admission; and
the length of time spent in the facility; or
information about patients who are not admitted to a facility, but who receive a service at the facility, including, for example, the number of patients receiving care as an outpatient at the facility.
patient outcome information means information about—
the impact on patients of a health service provided at or by the facility, including, for example, the change in the health of a person, group of people or population that is wholly or partly attributable to the service; or
the effectiveness of a health service provided at or by the facility, including, for example, the extent to which a health service provided to a person at the facility achieved the best possible outcome for the person’s health.
process of care information means information about processes that are in place to support quality and safety of health services at the facility, including, for example, infection management processes at the facility.
This provision refers to the regulations (prescribed by regulation
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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