Page 1882 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 6 June 2017
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Within ACT Health there have also been internal changes to ensure the system-wide review has the focus and the attention it requires to fulfil the requirements of the terms of reference. ACT Health has been proactive in recognising the data issues and is acting quickly, as requested, to meet the terms of reference milestones.
Madam Speaker, I am pleased to be able to provide members with an update on the range of development activities, either completed or well underway, within the Health Directorate. While these activities may seem somewhat minor in comparison to the overall program at hand, they are crucial to the successful delivery of the key outcomes identified. Existing staff are being engaged and taking the lead to ensure that ACT Health builds capacity and capability in this critical area moving forward. I can advise members that the directorate immediately established a core program team of four staff to lead the system-wide review internally; however, this is growing each week as additional activities are identified. I am pleased to report that eight dedicated staff from within the organisation are now allocated to the system-wide review.
These staff are focused on reviewing and developing policies, procedures and processes to ensure all documentation and administrative aspects of this review are robust and transparent. This approach ensures that staff are engaged and accountable and, most importantly, that the Health Directorate builds capacity and capability in this complex area of work. Subject matter experts are and will be engaged to ensure the right resources are available to support this work. A key resource has already been seconded from an external national reporting agency, and additional expert or specialist resources will be sought to assist in this process where required. This will ensure the right resources are available at the right time to support this very important program of work.
The Health Directorate is in the process of developing an overarching ACT Health informatics strategy framework, which will identify key performance reporting and data management expectations and requirements. The framework will provide the governance required for the hub of informatics that will be supported by seven domains of work, all requiring a range of policies, procedures and processes including change management, metadata, workforce, communications, governance, quality, and privacy and security.
Work is being undertaken to map all existing review recommendations and the terms of reference outputs to the informatics strategy. The team is developing road maps to ensure that all recommendations and the terms of reference outputs are consolidated and will be addressed. To ensure that the informatics strategy is robust, a gap analysis of activities is being undertaken. The directorate has engaged an independent auditor to provide a status, or baseline, against each external review recommendation. A thorough process is also underway to identify and capture all internal and external reporting obligations, with over 400 individual obligations having being identified to date.
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