The revise standards will be presented to the stakeholders for inputs and endorsement at Birchwood Conference Centre in Boksburg tomorrow. This will assist to measure the performance of health facilities against the set standards.
The priorities of the national core standards will also be outlined and endorsed, to fast-track quality improvement. There is wide agreement and evidence that the following priorities are not being properly implemented. They are:
* patient safety
* infection control
* availability of medicines and supplies
* waiting times
* cleanliness
* positive and caring attitudes
Speakers including a representative from the World Health Organisation (WHO), policymakers and researchers have been lined up to speak on these issues.
Members of the media are invited to cover the opening of the Quality summit as follows:
Date: 24 November 2009
Venue: Birchwood Conference Centre, Boksburg
Time: 10h00
Draft programme
Quality Summit and Excellence in Health Care Awards, “Excellence in Quality”
Date: 24 to 25 November 2009
Venue: Birchwood Hotel
Objectives:
* to update stakeholders and partners on progress over the past year
* to present the revised national core standards for inputs and endorsement
* to facilitate learning in five critical areas for fast-track quality improvement
* to showcase and recognise excellence amongst health care workers in the public and private sectors.
Day one: 24 November 2009
10h00 to 10h30: Welcome and programme outline
10h30 to 11h00: Address by deputy minister
11h00 to 11h30: Values and motivation in healthcare
11h30 to 12h00: National Quality programme, core standards and quality Improvement
12h30 to 13h00: Quality improvement in action
13h00 to 14h00: Lunch
14h00 to 16h00: Working groups, national core standards and their use
16h00 to 17h00: Feedback
Day two: 25 November 2009
08h30 to 09h00: Patient safety
09h00 to 09h30: Waiting times
09h30 to 10h00: Infection prevention
10h00 to 10h30: Tea break
10h30 to 11h00: Cleanliness
11h00 to 11h30: Learning networks
11h30 to 15h00: Seminars: five parallel sessions
(Brown bag lunch during seminars)
15h00 to 16h00: Feedback
16h00: End of seminar programme
Prepare for exhibition and awards
Excellence in Health Care Awards
25 November 2009
17h30 to 19h00 (18h45): Exhibition
* to showcase achievements of all finalists in the excellence awards
* to reflect the five quality improvement priorities
Opened by Minister or Deputy Minister
19h00 to 19h45: Awards ceremony
Welcome and introduction
Starters
19h45 to 20h15: Keynote address by the Minister
20h15 to 21h00: Dinner
21h00 to 22h15: Awards
22h15: End of ceremony
Enquiries:
Charity Bhengu
Cell: 083 679 7424
Issued by: Department of Health
23 November 2009
