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programmes (eg infection control). The Commission also sit on the regional quality group to enable the links to be made.
The region has been particularly active over the past 18 months defining
and implementing an electronic quality and risk management system
(DATIX), with the last DHB going live with the system at the end of
February 2016. This system will enable better monitoring and trending of
incidents, complaints and risk. It will support the identification of areas where regional quality improvement efforts are required.
Going forward the focus will be on developing a regional plan for quality that includes local priorities, increased consumer engagement, national imperatives and inclusion of other providers where relevant. In addition there is an opportunity to maximise collective power such as a regional approach to certification requirements to minimise costs wherever possible, better sharing of best practice and the rollout of initiatives across the region.
The region has an increasing number of Improvement Advisors (IA), some of whom were supported by the Health Quality and Safety Commission (HQSC) to undertake in depth training on improvement science, and who now link with the regional steering group.
The aim is to ensure that service users receive safe, high quality care and that as a region we stay focused on quality. In order to achieve the improvements, the key priorities for the next 12 months are:
 Continue to support the national patient safety campaign, developing and supporting clinical leaders and improving the capability of front line staff in the ongoing development of quality and patients safety
 Work with the national and local mortality review committees to align processes and ensure learning, particularly those emerging around peri-operative mortality
 Develop a regional comparison report utilising the Quality and Safety Markers and the national patient experience survey and share learning from those DHBs in the upper quartile against these measures
 Continue to develop a regional approach to core systems such as certification, infection control to enable shared learning and advancement of best practice
 Better integrate quality across the clinical networks, offering advice and support on particularly consumer engagement activity and quality improvement methodology through the Improvement Advisors
In addition to those initiatives under the leadership of the Midland DHBs Quality and Risk Managers Forum, Section 2 describes regional initiatives being progressed in 2016/17 by the regional networks and clinical action groups.
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REGIONAL INITIATIVES AND ACTIVITIES TO ACHIEVE OUR REGIONAL OBJECTIVES