Quality And Safety Issues In Healthcare

The goal of this essay paper is the evaluation of safety and quality issues in healthcare. Quality and patient safety are very important tools to critically evaluate working and delivering efficiency of healthcare. The quality and patient safety are described individually with definition. The scandal occurred at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust is taken as example for understanding of quality and safety issue. The specific reasons will be mentioned responsible for overall system failure at Mid Staffordshire hospital. The literatures are reviewed for understanding of either event like Mid Staffordshire could occur in any other health organisation or not. In the end, the current challenges for quality and safety in Australian Health System are discussed. Quality is like overarching umbrella under which patient safety can reside. Institute of Medicine (IOM) has defined quality as the “the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge”. In another terms quality in healthcare can be …show more content…
Quality of care is patient-centred approach. Thus safety is foundation upon which all standards of quality care are built. IOM has defined the patient safety as “the prevention of harm to patient.” Patient safety includes development of safety culture, prevention of errors and learning from the errors (Mitchell 2008). Hospitals and other healthcare organisations always demand for error-free performance. Healthcare systems and personnel are not allowed form committing mistakes. The occurrence of errors is still quite common despite current increasing attention to patient safety and medical quality. The international data is revealed that approximately 10% of hospitalised patients are suffered from damages brought about by medical and non-medical errors (Valiee, Peyrovi & Nasrabadi