Carrie Marr, Chief Executive of the Clinical Excellence Commission in NSW, posed some excellent quality improvement measurement questions at the Measuring Health Outcomes conference in Melbourne on 31 May and 1 June 2016.

Dr De Korne recently visited Tasmania and presented A Quality and Safety in Healthcare lecture at the Medical Science Precinct in Hobart. His implementation, research and teaching focusses on understanding the diffusion of quality and patient safety innovations and includes business process and systems redesign, human factors and ergonomics, and performance benchmarking.

Congratulations to HSI Tas Lecturer in Health Service Improvement Dr Pieter Van Dam who has successfully submitted an abstract for an oral presentation at the 5th APAC forum to be held in Sydney from 12-14 September 2016.

Dr Pieter Van Dam presented an overview of HSI Tas transformational redesign work to the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Tasmanian branch conference in June 2016.

Health leadership experts help deliver the 6th Collective Health Leadership Masterclass

Health professionals from across the state meet to recognise healthcare innovation work being undertaken by HSI course participants.

Dr de Korne is visiting Tasmania after presenting at the Healthcare of the Future Conference in Sydney in June 2016 and will be delivering a lecture on his extensive work on quality and safety

The efforts of staff in the Royal Hobart Hospital Specialist Outpatient Clinics are starting to produce positive results within the clinics and for patients who attend them.