Prioritised Clinical Assets Replacement Plan
The Children's Hospital at Westmead
This project was entered in the 2007 NSW Health Awards, Smart Choices about the Costs and Benefits of Health Services category.
Contact: Karen Steinhoff
Abstract
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead’s (CHW) Medical Staff Council had previously compiled a multi-million dollar list of equipment requiring replacement which had no prioritisation. It was therefore essential to establish a prioritised five year Clinical Equipment Replacement Plan that allocated the Hospital’s limited equipment funds as efficaciously and fairly as possible.
To avoid departments focusing solely on their own equipment needs and not appreciating the potential importance of equipment not immediately applicable to their specific field of medicine, a prioritisation method was implemented which was as objective as possible to enable the Hospital to make smart choices about equipment purchases.
It became mandatory that all departments use the same process and the overall plan with ranked prioritisation was made accessible on the Hospital intranet site, enuring the process is as transparent as possible.
The full entry document can be downloaded in the formats listed below:
Prioritised Clinical Assets Replacement Plan (114KB)
Prioritised Clinical Assets Replacement Plan (49KB)
Download the Presentation (360KB) from the 2007 NSW Health Expo
