Page Index
Contacts
State Program Director of Surgery
Phone: 02 9391 9298
Principal Project Officer (Surgery)
Phone: 02 9391 9557
Senior Project Officer, Emergency Surgery
Phone: 02 9391 9166
NSW Patient Access Coordinator
Phone: 02 9391 9324
Principal Project Officer (Surgery Projects)
Phone: 02 9391 9310
Patient safety
Below are resources, developed by NSW Health, which help to improve patient safety in the operating theatre.
Quality and safety: Correct patient in NSW
The Correct site (Correct Patient, Correct Procedure and Correct Site) policy directive, safety toolkits for surgical services and case studies.
Venothromboembolism (VTE) surgical and medical management posters and booklet
Medical and surgical VTE prevention guidelines in poster and booklet formats have been produced by the Australia and New Zealand Working Party on the Management and Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism. These guidelines are based on international consensus statements using best evidence for VTE prevention.
Operating suite & other procedural areas - Handling of accountable items - Standard procedures
Applies to all public hospitals where surgical procedures are carried out to ensure that any items as defined by this document and used during the course of an operation are removed from the patient unless retained intentionally as part of the procedure. All public hospitals are to have regard to this policy in other procedural areas where there is a risk of retained instruments/items (ie labour and delivery units, radiology departments etc). It is also recommended that all licensed private facilities have regard to the document in the development of their own local policies.
Quality and safety: Safety Alert Broadcast System (SABS)
NSW Health's Safety Alert Broadcast System (SABS) has been adapted from the UK's National Health Service Safety Alert Broadcast System. Its aim is to provide a systematic approach to the distribution and management of patient safety information to NSW health services. Each alert specifies action to be taken by health services, the timeframe in which such action must occur, and specific responsibility for the actions.
Infection Control Policy
This document outlines the broad principles of infection control and is intended as a framework within which Area Health Services and health care facilities can develop comprehensive operational infection control policies and procedures appropriate to their own organisation.
Incident Management
Advice to staff on the effective response to all corporate and clinical incidents that occur in the health system. Contains important information on the legal aspects of health care incident management, the requirements for a privileged Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and information on privilege and Reportable Incident Briefs (RIB).
