Stephen Duckett
speaker
921 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2006
last heard May 2019
Stephen Duckett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It gets you to focus on are there systematic things happening in this hospital that aren't happening in other hospitals.
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Yes, as I said, Victoria is very proud of the fact that it's the most efficient state in terms of the public hospital system.
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And they've strengthened their emphasis on safety and quality in recent years.
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But the example I use is there's a performance assessment scale that's used to rank hospitals to track how they're going.
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And at the moment, there are three dimensions to it.
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Are you going on budget?
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And that's worth 30% of the score.
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And the second one is, are you going on budget?
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And the third one is, are you going on
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Not quite as bad as that, Noah.
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But the first one's, are you going on budget?
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The second one's, how are you going on your waiting list?
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And the third one is quality and safety.
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And originally that was only 15%, and they've increased that to 40%.
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But when I went around Victoria and said to people, do you think it's the right idea that if you go better on budget, you're allowed to go worse on quality and safety?
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I couldn't find anybody who thought that was a good idea at all.
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So quality and safety isn't... It's got to sit there in its own right.
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Yeah, it ought to be there in its own right.
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It ought to be something that we focus on.
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And it's not at the moment.
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