Leadership in Quality and Safety for Health Care Discussion 2022

STUDENT DETAILS
LEADERSHIP IN QUALITY
AND SAFETY FOR
HEALTH CARE

Health Care 1
Contents
Introduction.......................................................................................................................2
What is meant by the term ‘patient safety’? Differentiate between safety in health care
and patient safety. In the context of patient safety what is understood by the term risk
management and what is its aim? Briefly discuss the approaches and/or tools that a
health professional is likely to use when completing a risk analysis................................3
Explain what is meant by the term ‘safety culture’ in health care and discuss how it can
be measured? What is the significance of a poor safety culture for health care
professionals and patients?................................................................................................5
Does clinical governance differ from clinical leadership in the context of quality and
safety in health care provision? In your discussion include an overview of how
professional communication between health professionals can enhance or impair the
safety and wellbeing of patients?......................................................................................7
Conclusion.........................................................................................................................9
References.......................................................................................................................10

Health Care 2
Introduction
Medicinal services organizations are yet endeavouring to achieve high quality
standards, the ability to minimize errors while reliably giving high-quality services to
their patients in the dynamic environment (Andel, Davidow, Hollander & Moreno,
2012). For this assignment, three-questions are selected. First, meaning and difference
between patient safety and safety in health care. Meaning and aim of risk management
with approaches chosen by the health professionals while risk analysis. Second, the
meaning of safety culture, it's importance and measurements. Third, defining about does
clinical governance is different from clinical leadership? How professional
communication can improve the safety and well-being of patients. These selected
questions will be answered in this report.

Health Care 3
What is meant by the term ‘patient safety’? Differentiate between safety in health
care and patient safety. In the context of patient safety what is understood by the
term risk management and what is its aim? Briefly discuss the approaches and/or
tools that a health professional is likely to use when completing a risk analysis.
The least complex meaning of patient wellbeing is the prevention of errors and
antagonistic impacts on patients related to medicinal services. While human services
have turned out to be progressively viable it has likewise turned out to be increasingly
mind-boggling, with more noteworthy utilization of innovations, prescriptions and
medicines (Etchegarav & Thomas, 2012). On the other hand, patient wellbeing is order
and responsibility that forces on safety in health care through revealing and examination
of medicinal mistake that frequently prompts unfriendly impacts (Doyle, Lennox &
Bell, 2013). The recurrence and extent of avoidable antagonistic occasions experienced
by patients were not notable until the 1990s when numerous nations detailed stunning
quantities of patients hurt and slaughtered by medicinal errors. Recognizing that human
services mistakes sway 1 in every 10 patients around the globe, the World Health
Organization considers persistent wellbeing an endemic concern (Free, et. al., 2013).
Safety in health care is a continually moving objective and purpose of almost all
the health care facilities (Weaver, et. al., 2013).. As benchmarks improve and worry for
safety concern develop, still there is an expanding rise in the number of occasions
related to the patient security issues (Morello, et. al., 2013). This increasing number
directly reflects how health care facilities are failing in providing safety to patients.
Conversely, development and improving guidelines in health care services adjust
originations of both mischief and preventability. Primary care professionals like family
specialists, dental specialists and physiotherapists use safety measurement standards,