Safer Care Victoria: Victorian safety culture guide (September 2024)

Summary

Safer Care Victoria, Australia, has released their first Victorian Safety Culture Guide (VSCG). The guide is intended to support healthcare leaders to measure and monitor their organisation’s safety culture. According to the SCV, the Guide:

• facilitates proactive measurement and monitoring to prevent harm and promote safer, continuously improving health care
• offers actionable strategies, practical approaches, and best practices for improving safety culture across all Victorian healthcare services
• allows leaders to make data-driven decisions to support the implementation of targeted changes to improve safety culture
• uses a variety of existing methods and approaches widely available in most Victorian health services.

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