G1: The many faces of collaboration
Friday 10 September | 11:00-11:45
Format: Lecture
Stream: Building Capability and Leadership
Content filters: Discussion of improvement methodology
Achieving collaboration in clinical practice is a challenging, yet essential task. This session presents two different approaches to enabling closer cooperation between hospitals and clinical teams: an outcome-based state-wide project and a future-focused capacity-building initiative to establish clinical networks. How do both examples complement each other, and what can we learn and apply to our own practice?
(Part A) Care of Older People Clinical Network’s #endPJparalysis Victoria project
How do you engage and support hospitals to embed changes to increase the number of inpatients getting up, dressed and moving? This presentation outlines how Safer Care Victoria supported 33 hospitals across Victoria to use the Model for Improvement to embed change. It will outline the challenges faced to deliver the project, including geographical, base-line quality improvement knowledge and resourcing. Finally, we will demonstrate how we PDSA’ed our way around these challenges to deliver demonstrable, sustained improvement.
After this session, participants will be able to:
- Use innovative ways to collaborate with rural, regional and metropolitan participants
- Engage clinicians across the state in quality improvement
- Know what not to do in a state-wide collaborative
Eleanor Sawyer, Safer Care Victoria; Australia
(Part B) Delivering better healthcare through high-performing, self-sustaining clinical networks
There is no shortage of ideas or leaders reaching out for help to solve a problem in our health system. With so many options CEIH knew we needed to find a way to develop a sustainable, scalable model to bring clinicians, consumers, carers and the community together as a network of individuals. CEIH’s Capability Framework and Model for Transition builds networks and supports their maturation so that they learn to fly and leave their ‘nest’ as self-sustaining communities of practice, and creating capacity for new networks to be nurtured. Ultimately building depth, knowledge and strong connections across the health system.
After this session, participants will be able to:
- Build awareness of what clinical experts and consumers may not know they don’t know, about how to make change happen
- Identify ways to build non-clinical capability, including human factors to enable meaningful partnerships with and between policy-makers, administrators, clinicians, consumers, carers and the community to achieve results
- Conceptualise a framework that guides and measures maturation of a group of individuals into a self-sustaining, high functioning, connected community
Katie Billing, Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health; Australia