1st Edition
Patient Safety First Responsive regulation in health care
Each year more people die in health care accidents than in road accidents. Increasingly complex medical treatments and overstretched health systems create more opportunities for things to go wrong, and they do.
Patient safety is now a major regulatory issue around the world, and Australia has been at its leading edge. Self-regulation by professional and industry groups is now widely regarded as insufficient, and government is stepping in.
In Patient Safety First eading experts survey the governance of clinical care. Framed within a theory of responsive regulation, core regulatory approaches to patient safety are analysed for their effectiveness, including information systems, corporate and public institution governance models, the design of safe systems,
the role of medical boards, open disclosure and public inquiries.
Patient Safety First includes chapters by Bruce Barraclough, John Braithwaite, Stephen Duckett and Ian Freckleton SC. It is essential reading for all medical and legal professionals working in patient safety as well as readers in public health, health policy and governance.
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
1. Regulatory strategies for safer patient health care
2. Leading from behind with plural regulation
3. International trends in patient safety governance
4. Voluntary initiatives by clinicians
5. Integrating corporate and clinical governance
6. Transforming clinical governance in Queensland Health
7. Regulating health professionals
8. Non-disciplinary pathways in practitioner regulation
9. Regulating clinical practice
10. Surgeon report cards
11. Disclosure of medical injury
12. Does litigation against doctors and hospitals improve quality?
13. Hospital licensure, certification and accreditation
14. Connecting health care through information technology
15. Do public inquiries improve health care?
Index
Biography
Judith Healy is Associate Professor in the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian National University. She is co-editor of Hospitals in a Changing Europe and Accessing Health Care.
Paul Dugdale is Director of Chronic Disease Management for ACT Health and Associate Professor of Public Health at the Australian National University. He is the author of Doing Health Policy in Australia.
