ANZICS Safety and Quality Committee

The ANZICS Safety and Quality Committee was formed following approval of its terms of reference at the October Board Meeting and AGM in 2000. Committee meetings are held three times a year to discuss the committee's current activities and other safety and quailty initiatives that may be of interest to the committee.

Mission

Our mission is to promote world best practice standards in Australian and New Zealand intensive care medicine.

Vision

The Safety and QualityThe Safety and Quality Committee Aims to:

• Promote safe patient centred care in Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Units
• Define best practice in Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Units
• Promote awareness of important developments in intensive care safety and quality throughout Australia and New Zealand
• Promote membership participation in the use of appropriate clinical indicators for measuring and comparing practice safety and quality Values
• Leadership, integrity, responsibility and accountability to ourselves, our patients and the community
• Respectful and collegiate relationships within the group, the intensive care community and with collaborators

Objectives

1. To represent the Society in endeavours to establish and promote world best practice standards in intensive care medicine
2. To improve access to and awareness of important developments in healthcare safety and quality,
3. To facilitate the development and distribution of suitable tools for monitoring of adverse incidents, safety, and quality in intensive care practice
4. To assist in the development and promotion of comparative measures for intensive care services to evaluate their performance
5. To develop the Society’s policies and practices that encourage appropriate levels of community awareness and participation in safety and quality processes in intensive care
6. To establish and maintain liaison with governments, health authorities, learned societies, and other non-governmental organisations on issues of safety and quality in intensive care medicine

Terms of Reference

  Safety and Quality Terms of Reference - May 2011 (157.26 kB 2011-08-25 03:00:10)