User:PMacGaol/Patient safety forum

Background
Working the in the area of qaulity for the past 15 years has made me realise that often true expertise lie with those driving the change process at local level within organisations. Internationally, there is wide variation between countries regarding the extent to which the Quality and Safety agenda has been deployed. This variation not only exists between providers within each country but also in the extend to which each country has legislated for the required reform. However, neither legislation nor regulation can give that which a culture is unwilling to surrender. It can lead to fear within organisation and an excessive focus on policy development rather than quality deployment. For success to be achieved providers need to see the positve changes that have occurred in other duristictions. However, particularly in the current recessionary climate, traditional oppertunities to share expertise and expearience are becoming more limited. The following forum has been establised to bridge this gap. It is hoped that by sharing knowledge and expearience we can all learn from each other on how to effectivly deploy tools to affect change within care provider organisations and systems.

Objectives
1. To share knowlege 2. To provide open access to to.......