Governance and Coordination
Strong inter-sectoral relationships between health services and training providers offer an opportunity to build upon existing clinical governance and placement coordination processes and enhance clinical placement delivery within these organisations. Communication and open partnerships between health services and training providers are important for good clinical governance. While this involves significant commitment from all parties, strengthening the links between the sectors has significant benefits.
Clinical placement coordination is often a time and resource-intensive process. Current arrangements, in which individual training institutions interface with multiple health services to secure placements in competition with other providers, often result in duplication of effort and under-utilised capacity, and does not facilitate best use of resources.
The Department of Human Services is committed to promoting efficient and effective approaches to the management and delivery of clinical placements. This includes implementing systems and supports that streamline processes for the organisation, allocation, delivery and reporting of clinical placements. It also involves developing tools and resources that can be used by health services and other stakeholders to achieve consistency, where desirable, and to minimise administrative burden.
These measures aim to build broader system capacity and improve linkages across organisations and sectors.
This departmental aim is shared by many health services and training providers and significant work has been done to improve the coordination of clinical placements across the state.
- A New Model of Clinical Placement Governance for Victoria
Discussion of a new clinical governance model for clinical placements in Victoria. - Relationship Agreement for the Public Hospital Sector
A template agreement to assist health services and training providers to negotiate clinical placement arrangements. - Partnership Building
A case study of effective partnerships between training providers and health services. - Student Trainee Reporting Tool (STaRT)
An online tool to assist health and community services and training providers to plan and manage clinical placement activity. - Community Health Student Placement Coordination Project
Examines the potential to expand clinical placement capacity in community health settings by utilising partnership arrangements between health services. - Clinical Governance in Community Health
The Clinical Governance in Community Health Project supports the community health sector in implementing the Victorian Quality Council's framework, 'Better Quality, Better Health Care: A Safety and Quality Improvement Framework for Victorian Healthcare Services'.