Measurement for Improvement (41356)

Key Objectives

• Gain insights into the measurement expectations of organisations with respect to overall governance and accreditation of health services.
• Understand how the measurement of processes over time allows insight and opportunities to redesign processes of care, specifically related to run charts and statistical process control charts.
• Relate measurement to Deming's theories of profound knowledge and the concept of special and common cause variation.
• Understand the basic measurement tools that can be used every day even in the absence of technology

Assoc Professor Peter Hibbert

B.App.Sc.(Physio), Grad.Dip.Comp., Grad.Dip.Econ

Program Manager Australian Institute of Health Innovation Faculty of Medicine Macquarie University

Peter Hibbert started his health career as a physiotherapist working in Australia and the United Kingdom for 12 years. Currently, he supports Chief Investigators to manage a $10.8 million grant researching translating safe care into practice. He was an author of the Care Track Australia study – the first population-based multi-condition study of the level of evidence-based care delivered to Australian patients.

He has worked a patient safety consultant and an ACHS presenter running training programs in root cause analysis and patient safety. Prior to these roles, he was the Associate Director of Patient Safety at the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) in London, England where he led and managed clinical teams aiming to reduce preventable patient harm in health care across England and Wales.