Health Transport Unit - Saving Money, Saving Time - Project to reduce expenditure whilst providing an appropriate, safe, effective, timely and cost efficient means of transferring patients.
(Date published: 30-Oct-2008)

Benefits of Employing AINs in Aged Care Services - Evaluation of the employment of two Assistants in Nursing to provide a personal care service, showing cost efficiencies and additional service provision.
(Date published: 29-Oct-2008)

Waste Not Want Not - Saving Platelets - Project to reduce platelet wastage by 50% within six months through the development of innovative and sustainable strategies.
(Date published: 29-Oct-2008)

Improving the Safety and Cost of an Important Paediatric Medication - Project to improve the extemporaneous formulation of Tacrolimus, as well as simplifying manufacturing, promoting safe administration in children and ensure cost effectiveness.
(Date published: 29-Oct-2008)

Dr Who? Creation of an Area Health Services Provider Directory - Project to collect, verify and maintain accurate provider and service information in a single Health Services Provider database for the population of clinical systems and as an online tool to assist in service referrals.
(Date published: 29-Oct-2008)

Laundry Consortium: Smart cost benefits to the community - Project to provide a modern well equipped laundry for use by various community volunteer groups to deliver a free and cost effective linen service to the community and to enhance community partnerships.
(Date published: 28-Oct-2008)

Threshold Pricing for Orthopaedic Prostheses - Threshold Pricing Project aims to increase efficiency and decrease overall expenditure by reducing the unit cost of orthopaedic prostheses.
(Date published: 28-Oct-2008)

Better Outcomes for Children: Information Sharing - The Child Protection Information Coordinator (CPIC) cleared the backlog of s248 requests, while responding to current requests within time frames, without a significant injection of funds or staff.
(Date published: 27-Oct-2008)

Yellow Brick Road to Continuum of Care - Implementing a simple tool to improve communication between the hospital and regional residentail aged care facilities.
(Date published: 24-Oct-2008)

Finley - Patient and Carer Experience - Small Site Model - The project provided an opportunity for the community to express their expectations and experiences of recent periods of health care.
(Date published: 22-Oct-2008)

Excellence in Quality and Safety Forum - NSW Health - The Forum showcased innovation and excellence through outstanding clinical quality and patient safety projects across the NSW health system.
(Date published: 21-Oct-2005)

Sustaining Innovation and Reform - Presentation describing system reform to improve patient flow in the Hunter New England Area Health Service
(Date published: 20-Nov-2008)

Co-ordination and Transition of Patient Focused Care - Presentation on NSW Health program to improve patient focused care.
(Date published: 20-Nov-2008)

Policy and Procedure for Patient/Visitor Property Searches - The Royal Hobart Hospital will ensure that a safe and secure environment is maintained through the provision of appropriate mechanisms that promote safety.
(Date published: 19-Mar-2005)

Queensland Health motivates staff to innovate - Queensland Health has invited its 65,000 staff to submit their ideas for improving health service delivery through a new program, 'innov8'.
(Date published: 09-Mar-2005)

Precise Tracking System Ensures Medical Equipment is Always on Hand - The Prince Charles Hospital Health Service District in Queensland has developed a management system that accurately keeps track of medical equipment located around the hospital's four campuses and facilitates faster repairs.
(Date published: 09-Aug-2005)

Contact Centre SPA Forum - This forum was to highlight the resources and process of implementing a Contact Centre or a Single Point of Access.
(Date published: 06-Jun-2008)

Discover Process Mapping - Process mapping is a simple method of identifying steps in a process that can be targeted for improvement.
(Date published: 04-May-2003)

Aggression Management Programme - Aggression is an escalating problem of the health system resulting in staff injury, low morale and recruitment difficulties.
(Date published: 01-Jan-2005)