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Victorian Audit of Surgical Mortality
The Victorian Audit of Surgical Mortality (VASM) seeks to review all deaths associated with surgical care.
VASM is a collaboration between Safer Care Victoria (SCV), a branch of the Victorian Government’s Department of Health and Human Services, the Victorian Perioperative Consultative Council (VPCC) and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS). The VASM project is funded by the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services. The VASM management committee meets three times per year and oversees the project which constitutes an invaluable foundation to the running and success of the audit program. RACS manages VASM through the Melbourne head office.
Safer Care Victoria
Safer Care Victoria (SCV) is the peak state authority for leading quality and safety improvement in healthcare. SCV was established to oversee and support health services to provide safe, high-quality care to patients every time, everywhere. As well as monitoring the standards of care provided, SCV is partnering with consumers and their families, clinicians and health services to support the continuous improvement of healthcare.
Victorian Perioperative Consultative Council
The Victorian Perioperative Consultative Council (VPCC) oversees, reviews and monitors perioperative care in Victoria to improve outcomes for patients before, during and after surgery.
The council was established as the result of a review to combine and strengthen the functions of the Victorian Consultative Council of Anaesthetic Mortality and Morbidity and the Victorian Surgical Consultative Council.
Victorian Agency for Health Information
The Victorian Agency for Health Information (VAHI) is an Administrative Office of the Victorian Government’s Department of Health and Human Services.
VAHI analyses and shares information across the Victorian health system to ensure services have an accurate picture of their quality and safety.
VAHI monitors and reports on public and private services that impact on health, wellbeing, quality and safety to stimulate and inform improvements, increase transparency and accountability, and inform the community.
SERIES
Date / Time
Series Three Agenda – 3 February 202
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5.50pm-6.00pm(10 min)
Acknowledge Country, webinar format and introduce
speakers for series
A/Prof Philip McCahy, VASM Clinical Director
6.00pm-6.20pm (20 min)
Focus on improving patient care in hospitals
Dr Robert Herkes, Chief Medical Officer, Australian
Commission on Safety And Quality in Health Care
6.20pm-6.40pm (20 min)
Using VASM for Quality & Safety Standards: A
metropolitan private health care perspective
Dr David Rankin, Director Clinical Governance and
Informatics, Cabrini Health
6.40pm-7.00pm (20 min)
Using VASM for Quality & Safety Standards: A
regional health care perspective
Mr Matthew Hadfield, Surgical Director, Ballarat Health
7.00pm-7.30pm (30 min)
Panel Discussion
Speakers are invited for live panel discussion
7.30pm-7.40pm (10 mins)
Session Close
Reminder feedback survey and questions: email to
VASM
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Acknowledge to Country
The Victorian Audit of Surgical Mortality (VASM) would like to begin by acknowledging the Traditional Custodians of the various lands on which we work today and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people participating in this webinar. I pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and recognise and celebrate the diversity of Aboriginal peoples and their ongoing cultures and connections to the lands and waters.
5:50 pm
A/Prof Philip McCahy
Opening the webinar - Acknowledge Country and introduce
speakers for series
Clinical Director VASM
Associate Professor Philip McCahy is the Clinical Director of VASM. He is a benign urologist at Monash Health and in Gippsland. He happily talks anytime about stones and VASM and runs a popular undergraduate surgery tutorial program for Monash University. Prior to moving to Australia in 2007, he was a consultant urologist in Kent, UK and on the Court of Examiners for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
He has also been heavily involved in teaching trainees and medical students around the world. He has taught trainees and students in the UK, has worked in Tanzania as part of the Urolink arm of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, is the urology advisor to RACS Global Health and leads a regular trip to Tonga as part of RACS Pacific Islands Project.
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6:00 pm
Dr Robert Herkes
Focus on improving patient care in hospitals
Chief Medical Officer ACSQHC
Dr Herkes is the Chief Medical Officer at the Commission, providing expert clinical advice to the wide range of programs managed by the organisation.
Dr Herkes is a highly respected senior clinician and leader in intensive care medicine, with extensive operating and leadership experience in the development, evolution and provision of critical care services at state and national levels. He has a significant role in identifying areas for synergies, partnerships and new opportunities across the Australian health sector in collaboration with all health sector stakeholders, and providing leadership and education around the latest evidence on safety and quality in health care.
6:
20 pm
Dr David Rankin
Using VASM for Quality & Safety Standards: a metropolitan
private health care perspective
Director Clinical Governance and Informatics Cabrini Health
Dr David Rankin is an experienced healthcare executive who has worked in the public, private and government sectors in Australia and New Zealand. He is the Director Clinical Governance and Informatics at Cabrini Health, a position he has held since September 2018. He was formerly the Clinical Director at Medibank Private.
He has held a range of positions from Chief Executive of a large private surgical hospital, General Manager with New Zealand’s Accident Compensation Corporation, senior health advisor to the Ministry of Social Development and EDMS at a public tertiary health service.
David has been elected to a range of senior industry positions including President of the New Zealand Private Hospitals Association, President of the New Zealand Institute of Health Managers and President of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators.
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6:
40 pm
Mr Matthew Hadfield
Using VASM for Quality & Safety Standards: a regional public
health care perspective
Surgical Director Ballarat Health
Mr Hadfield graduated from the Universities of St Andrews and Manchester in the UK. He undertook his postgraduate surgical training in the Yorkshire and North-Western training schemes in the UK before taking up a position as consultant Vascular and General Surgeon at Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, the largest trust in the UK at the time. As well as a busy practice in vascular surgery there he was foundation programme director and clinical director of surgery.
Mr Hadfield relocated to Australia in 2012 to take up the vacant Clinical Director of Surgery post at Ballarat Health Services and a position there as specialist vascular surgeon. He is chair of the Victorian State Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and remains a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He is also Deputy Chair of the Victorian Clinical Council.
Notes
7:00 pm
All speakers
Panel Discussion
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Acknowledgements
VASM would like to acknowledge the contributions of A/Prof Philip McCahy as
moderator and the presenters for giving up their time, and thank Safer Care
Victoria, the Victorian Agency for Health Information (VAHI), and the Victorian
Perioperative Consultative Council (VPCC) for collaborating with VASM.
We would like to thank the delegates for attending in the 2020-2021 VASM
Webinar Series.
Feedback Survey
To improve on these educational events we would like to hear from you.
Please complete our online Survey Monkey form:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NHYFY3H
If you have any interesting topics you’d like to hear more of, please send us an
email to vasm@surgeons.org
Thanks
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