The following shows the initiatives achieved under the knowledge
management strategy from 2004-2006.
| Initiative |
Progress |
Date completed |
| Steering Committee formed and project scoped |
Completed |
23 Feb 04 |
| Document Knowledge Management Framework
and Strategy for Quality Branch |
Completed and endorsed |
23 Feb 04 |
| Conduct knowledge management forum and provide
background briefing papers |
Completed |
31 May 04 |
| Review of knowledge management literature |
Monograph completed |
22 Oct 04 |
| Develop a publishable paper on the Department's
progress with GMTT in conjuction with the Director-General's
office and the Chair of GMTT |
Published in The Lancet, and widely appreciated.
Braithwaite, J. and Coulston, K. (2004). Turning the health
system 90 degrees down under. Lancet, 6;364(9432):397-9
|
|
| Support knowledge management committee and
sub-committee |
Ongoing support and guidance provided. |
Ongoing |
| Conduct educational sessions for Quality
& Safety Branch/Clinical Excellence Commission staff
on knowledge management issues |
Three sessions conducted: Assessing, Writing
up and publishing your work; Chairing sessions and giving
presentations; Evaluating programs. |
Completed |
| Review case studies of "lessons learned"
approaches to knowledge management |
Review completed and international ideas
harnessed; being utilised for NSW Department of Health
knowledge management development |
19 Jan 05 |
| Develop a "lessons learned" template
for use by the NSW Department of Health |
Template completed. Previously Simple Success
Stories, this template enables clear messages to be documented
and subsequently disseminated. |
19 Jan 05 |
| Evaluation of the management of SIP by Quality
and Safety Branch and the NSW Department of Health Reportable
Incident Review (RIB) committee |
Thirteen monographs completed and presented
to NSW Department of Health and the Clincial Excellence
Commission |
2 Sep 05 |
| Development of a paper in conjunction with
the Clinical Excellence Commission and the Quality and
Safety Branch |
Paper developed and submitted to the NSW Department
of Health. Additional papers from SIP data have been
completed with several more in development.
Paper 1: Changing an incident reporting and management
paradigm: the NSW Safety Improvement Program
Paper 2: Changing a health system for patient safety:
a triangulated, multi-methods evaluation
Paper 3: Promoting safety: varied reactions of doctors,
nurses and allied health professionals to a safety improvement
program
Paper 4: Attitudes of health professionals who
conducted root cause analyses after participating in
a safety improvement program
|
Completed |
| Provide support for NSW Department of Health
evaluation processes |
Support provided on design, data gathering
and analysis of formative and summative evaluations, particularly
the Clinical Risk Management for Rural General Practitioners
project and the Maternity Services Project. |
Completed |
| Provide support for knowledge management
scoping paper |
|
Completed |
| Business plan for knowledge management developed
|
Submitted to NSW Department of Health |
Completed |
| Evaluation of the IIMS project |
Protocol Completed |
June 2006 |
