Healthy Hospitals

Aim:

Our intention is to improve access to and efficiency in hospital and health care services based on population needs now and into the future. With this comes the key task of delivering safe, comprehensive, high quality clinical services to patients.

This will include a significant hospital building and infrastructure redevelopment program during the next 13 years. The result will be better alignment and integration between our facilities, clinical services, clinical networks, which better fit the individual community’s needs, especially in regional and remote areas.

We Commit To:

• Developing and deploying a statewide Clinical Services Plan that is based on population needs.
• Developing and deploying the Capital Infrastructure Plan through:
  
  
  • Developing and renewing our hospital stock; and
  • Ensuring absolute consistency of the Capital Infrastructure Plan with the Clinical Services Plan.
• Reducing demand on traditional hospital services through:
  
  
  • Increasing non-hospital ambulatory care services;
  • Preventing patient readmissions to hospital through improved care coordination;
  • Improving clinical and non-clinical administrative processes within health services; and
  • Implementing and reporting on common efficiency and benchmarking standards.
• Ensuring safety and quality in our health services.