Quality of Care (Peer Review)
The Quality of Care is an ambitious and ground-breaking program that will guarantee consistent high quality Cystic Fibrosis health care from every Cystic Fibrosis clinic across Australia.
Currently, Cystic Fibrosis clinics have variable healthcare provision standards and inconsistent resources for providing Cystic Fibrosis care. This is primarily due to limited clinic resources that are available. There is no independent monitoring of these clinics.
The Quality of Care is the campaign to ensure the Standards of Care (see here) guidelines for Cystic Fibrosis care are followed by clinics across Australia. The Quality of Care program will perform an evaluation on all major specialist Cystic Fibrosis clinics in Australia against the comprehensive standards. Many of the clinics without adequate resources will then be able to approach funding bodies with these independent reports, and to lobby for increased funding resources to bring their clinics up to the standard. The objective is that these reviews will result in beneficial changes to the clinics leading to high quality healthcare delivery as standard at all major Cystic Fibrosis clinics in Australia.
The evaluation teams for the Quality of Care will consist of some of the most prominent Cystic Fibrosis medical practitioners in the world volunteering their time to travel, complete the audit and author a comprehensive report. It is important to note that these individuals are not being paid for their time, and have volunteered their time and expertise over several months to assist with the project. Cystic Fibrosis Australia thanks these enthusiastic professionals for their time. Inaugural evaluations will take place between 2010 and 2014.
Cystic Fibrosis Australia would also like to acknowledge the support of the Angior Family Foundation, and the Ian Potter Foundation for funding this initiative.
