MTAA recommendations to improve safety and quality in healthcare
MTAA has submitted its recommendations on the Draft National Safety and Quality Healthcare Standards to the Australian Commission on Quality and Safety in Healthcare. The submission is based on feedback from MTAA members.
In the submission MTAA recommends the use of Safety Engineered Medical Devices (SEMDs) to prevent needlestick injuries and the need for policy and procedures to decrease the incidences of cross-contamination from flexible endoscopes.
MTAA recommends the current standards should include guidelines under Medication Safety that recommend the use of smart infusion pumps and safer spinal (intrathecal), epidural and regional devices in accordance with international policy.
The current standards should include specific detail regarding the outcome measures and the type of data that will be collected at a national level to ensure correct implementation and monitoring of the standards.
MTAA will provide more detailed comments on aspects of the NSQH Standards in response to the ‘Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare’.
For a full copy of the submission, please follow this link.
