Clinical handover is an explicit transfer of professional responsibility and accountability for some or all aspects of care for a patient, or group of patients, to another person or professional group on a temporary or permanent basis.
Accurate and appropriate clinical handovers are important to WA Health in achieving effective, high quality communication of relevant clinical information.
Provides timing as to when patients are to be transferred in to the care of the ED
Each patient being treated with clozapine must be registered with a clozapine patient monitoring system.
The National Standards set requirements for delivering comprehensive care for all patients and includes actions related to health literacy, end of life care, care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and care for people with mental illness or cognitive impairment.
The Clinical Governance, Safety and Quality Policy Framework specifies the clinical governance, safety and quality requirements that all Health Service Providers (HSPs) must comply with in order to ensure effective and consistent clinical care across the WA health system.
The Access to Public Maternity Services for Privately Practising Endorsed Midwives Policy (the policy) sets out mandatory requirements to support safe, high-quality, continuity of maternity care within the WA public health system by enabling Privately Practising Endorsed Midwives (PPEMs) to access public maternity services through a Licensing Agreement to deliver maternity services to their private clients.
This domain includes the underpinning principles and philosophy of a palliative care approach and incorporates elements essential to developing and improving end-of-life and palliative care service provision at an individual and service level.
ACP is a voluntary process of planning for future health and personal care where the person’s values, beliefs and preferences are made known to guide decision-making at a future time when that person cannot make or communicate their decisions.
An Advance Health Directive is a legal document that enables you to decide about the future treatment you want or do not want if you become incapable of communicating your needs.
Clinical Services Planning and Programs
As a strategy to enhance patient flow, on ambulance arrival at a metropolitan Emergency Department (ED) patients are to be triaged by the ED Triage Nurse in consultation with the Ambulance Officer, and where clinically appropriate, patients are to be directed to the ED waiting room.
The Specialist Outpatient Services Access Policy is the single document to guide Health Services in the delivery and management for specialist outpatient appointments, with an emphasis on discharging patients from specialist outpatient services to their primary health care providers.