{"id":1649,"date":"2026-01-05T01:42:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T01:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stg-internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2026-01-05T01:49:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T01:49:40","slug":"b5-moving-from-programs-to-a-systems-approach-to-build-safety-and-resilience-the-nsw-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/2026\/01\/05\/b5-moving-from-programs-to-a-systems-approach-to-build-safety-and-resilience-the-nsw-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"B5: Moving from programs to a systems approach to build safety and resilience &#8211; the NSW experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Tuesday 10 March 2026 | 13:30-14:30<br>Stream: Safety<br>Session format: Presentation\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p><br><p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">The core of the New South Wales (NSW) public health system in Australia is providing safe, high-quality, accessible, person-centred care. The Clinical Excellence Commission (CEC) leads system-wide clinical governance and safety assurance, being specialists in safety and partners in improvement. Preventable harm remains a global challenge, with complications costing Australian public hospitals billions annually, underscoring the importance of strong governance and leadership. Our role as stewards of clinical governance leadership is crucial to reducing patient harm and driving continuous safety improvement.<br><br>Over two decades, the CEC has provided support and guidance to build safety across NSW health. Linking with our 9-year strategy, we have developed the NSW Health Safety System Model as a contemporary framework for embedding patient safety and resilient clinical governance. This Model comprises six interdependent elements:<br><br><\/span><\/p><br><ul><br><li><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Embedding Safety Strategically \u2013 Integrating safety into organisational strategy and governance to build resilience.<\/span><\/li><br><li><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Accountable Leadership and Culture \u2013Safety is everyone\u2019s responsibility, supported by transparent leadership and just culture principles.<\/span><\/li><br><li><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Safety Governance \u2013 Establishing robust structures for oversight, risk management, and shared learning.<\/span><\/li><br><li><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Safety Intelligence \u2013 Leveraging real-time, triangulated data and predictive analytics to inform proactive safety and improvement decisions.<\/span><\/li><br><li><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Safety and Improvement Capability \u2013 Building workforce capability.<br><\/span><\/li><br><li><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Safety Improvement \u2013 Through prioritisation of safety risks and implementation of targeted programs.<br><\/span><\/li><br><\/ul><br><p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">We have combined this approach with resilience thinking to assist health services to \u2018create and maintain resilient systems that prevent harm, support wellbeing, and deliver lasting improvements in quality and safety.<\/span><\/p><br><p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">After this session, participants will be able to:<br><\/span><\/p><br><ul><br><li><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Understand how NSW has shifted from a program approach to systems and resilience thinking.<\/span><\/li><br><li><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Describe the elements of safety as outlined in the NSW Safety System model.<\/span><\/li><br><li><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Further their understanding of the concepts of resilience in safety.<\/span><\/li><br><\/ul><br><p>\u00a0<\/p><br><p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/2026\/01\/05\/michael-c-nicholl\/\">Michael C. Nicholl<\/a> <\/strong>NSW Clinical Excellence Commission; Australia<br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/2026\/01\/05\/patricia-bradd\/\">Patricia Bradd<\/a><\/strong> NSW Clinical Excellence Commission; Australia<\/span><\/p><br><p>\u00a0<\/p><br><p>\u00a0<\/p><br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday 10 March 2026 | 13:30-14:30Stream: SafetySession format: Presentation\u00a0The core of the New South Wales (NSW) public health system in Australia is providing safe, high-quality, accessible, person-centred care. The Clinical Excellence Commission (CEC) leads system-wide clinical governance and safety assurance, being specialists in safety and partners in improvement. Preventable harm remains a global challenge, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}