Quality & Safety
About us
The Quality & Safety Branch is part of the NSW Department of Health's Health System Performance Division. The Division comprises three other Branches: Strategic Information Management, Performance Analysis and Monitoring, and Health Service Performance Improvement. The focus of the Division is on clinical quality and safety, performance improvement, and governance. Auditing is a key interface with Area Health Services, Statutory Corporations and the Clinical Excellence Commission.
Dr Tony O'Connell is the Deputy Director-General, Health System Performance.
Kelvin Genn is the Director, Quality and
Safety.
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Responsibility
The Quality & Safety Branch is responsible for:
- setting standards for Area Health Service quality systems
- developing policies on quality and safety for statewide implementation
- developing and reporting on system wide quality indicators
- monitoring and analysing serious clinical incidents, and taking appropriate action such as advice and warnings to the health system
- overseeing statewide clinical governance issues
- overseeing consistent implementation of the NSW Patient Safety and Clinical Quality Program.