Healthcare Quality and Safety Workshop Series
October/November 2009
Multidisciplinary Teamwork for Safety
Group and multi-workshop discounts available
To ensure the workshops are collaborative, group sizes are capped at 30. Please register early to avoid disappointment.
Workshop outcomes
At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will:
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understand how improving key teamwork measures results in a reduction of the number of clinical errors, and how to translate this to their organisation;
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be able to develop strategies to help change workplace culture to enhance teamwork for patient safety; and
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be able to identify and understand the roadblocks to using time out, thus better able to promote the benefits to patients and clinicians that can be gained by using it.
Who should attend?
Health Administrators, Directors of Allied Health, Directors of Nursing, Nursing Administrators, Quality and Safety Managers, Quality Managers, Clinical Managers, Clinical Unit / Department Heads.
About the Presenters
Professor Guy Maddern
Guy is currently Professor of Surgery at the University of Adelaide and Director of the Division of Surgery at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide. He has wide experience in healthcare, having worked in health care facilities in Switzerland and France.
Guy has published over 300 refereed publications, several of these on themes of quality and safety, covering areas such as clinical audits and incident reporting.
He is currently the Chair of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Professional Development and Standards Board, and member of many professional boards and committees.
He is passionate about the need for professional groups to work together in cohesive teams to deliver safe and effective healthcare. He is also a keen advocate for involving consumers in the planning and evaluation of healthcare services.
Daniel Lalor
Daniel is currently the Project Manager, Medication
Safety with the Clinical Excellence Commission in NSW.
Daniel’s background is in clinical pharmacy and he now specialises in issues related to the safe and quality use
of medicines.
In this field, Daniel has worked with a number of State and National committees and organisations to improve
the safety and quality of patient care.
In his current role, Daniel is responsible for supporting
a range of tools and resources for analysing medication management systems as well as identifying emerging risks to medication safety through the use of incident data. He is also involved in leading and coordinating quality and safety improvement activities related to use of medicines.
Daniel is committed to improving patient safety through improving the safety and quality of medicines use.
