Maternity dashboard working group | Expression of interest Care Victoria (SCV) is the state’s healthcare quality and safety improvement agency. SCV works with consumers, families and carers, clinicians and health services to monitor and improve the quality and safety of care delivered across our health system. SCV puts patient safety front and centre, supporting health services to provide the safest and best possible care to patients every time. The Maternity and Newborn Clinical Network (the network), one of SCV’s 11 clinical networks), supports an integrated statewide approach to health services for mothers and their newborns. The network supports the delivery of efficient, effective and equitable healthcare for women and newborns in Victoria. The network has formal governance structures, a clinical lead and a range of project-specific working groups and subcommittees. Collaboration with these groups provides a direct link to clinicians working with children, young people and their families. The network engages with the healthcare sector to seek opportunities to support best practice and to address issues that might impact on delivering high quality services. Through the Maternity and Newborn Clinical Network, SCV aims to better access service data through developing a maternity dashboard. In June 2018, as part of a collaboration between SCV and VMIA, public birthing services were provided access to a dashboard displaying local maternity data. The final phase of the project is to build a statewide dashboard, which will be hosted by SCV. The dashboard will support access to more timely maternity data and improve our ability to monitor and identify trends across the sector. The maternity dashboard working group (working group) will act as an expert advisory group and support the development of the final phase of the maternity dashboard project. The working group will: review current maternity dashboard indicators inform the functionality of the dashboard facilitate education and training determine timeframes and methods for reviewing dashboard data develop escalation processes that support quality improvement. Obstetricians and midwives from private, public, regional and rural health services and/or epidemiologists, or biostatisticians who are: collaborative with skills in data interpretation and analysis interested in business intelligence and information management a strategic thinker with an interest and skills in safety and quality improvement at a local and system-wide level experienced in developing and delivering evidence informed best practice.
actively seek opportunities to enhance quality improvements within the health sector, through clinician engagement, participation and effective communication be accountable to the MNCN INSIGHT committee The specific responsibilities of the working group are to: select a chair from within the group work collaboratively with the MNCN and Senior Project Officer to refine the current set of maternity dashboard indicators assist to establish best practice use of dashboard tools within a clinical setting critique the dashboard functionality and data display, with a focus on ease of use and interpretation evidence and provide advice on appropriate use of new and emerging technologies which might influence the delivery of best practice advise on the development of education and training tools assist the MNCN in determining timeframes and methods for reviewing maternity dashboard data support the creation of internal escalation processes with a focus on quality improvement provide advice on specific matters referred to the group by the clinical network governance committee and INSIGHT subcommittee as required. All decisions made by the working group will be subject to endorsement by the network’s INSIGHT committee as a conduit to the Director, Clinicians as Partners and/or others within Safer Care Victoria with appropriate delegation. The working group will: Identify aims and outcomes for the maternity dashboard initiative provide advice during the development phase of the maternity dashboard identify best practice ‘evidence based data gaps’ where appropriate The working group will work under the direction of the clinical network’s INSIGHT committee (see Figure 1). Figure 1 The Maternity dashboard working group is a project group of the network’s INSIGHT committee. The INSIGHT subcommittee may establish time-limited working groups to undertake work and report back to the subcommittee on agreed key The subcommittee will consider recommendations arising from these working groups.