NQPHN High Performing Primary Care Series - Continuous Quality Improvement and Practice Incentive Program Quality Improvement
Thursday 24 September, Thursday 01 October, Thursday 08 October 2020

Embedding Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) and Practice Incentives Program Quality Improvement (PIP QI) into practice enhances systematic and quality improvement approaches to support evidence-based decision making. Practice transformation requires a culture of CQI to deliver responsive patient-centred care, that empowers patients to be informed and engaged in their own health care. In this three-part webinar series, we will be covering:
- What is quality and CQI
- Creating a CQI culture?
- Model for improvement
- Quality management systems
- Digital resources for practice self-driven CQI
- How do we measure CQI ?
- PIP-QI requirements and PIP data governance arrangements
- PIP-QI Guidelines & improvement measures
- PIP Eligible Data Set & the data governance framework
- Payments, applying, withdrawing, obligations, rights of review and audits of PIP-QI
- Identifying priority areas for QI activities
Learning objectives:
- Understand the relevance of the Quadruple Aim at a practice and system level
- Explain the importance of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) in relation to professional and practice goals and how it assists with PIP QI
- List the components of a quality management system
- Apply the Model for Improvement and conduct an authentic Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA)
- Develop a system for Measurement for Improvement
- Describe PIP QI eligibility and requirements and develop an implementation plan for your practice.
This activity hopes to improve population and patient outcomes and experience by optimising clinical care in healthcare practices, including general practice. In addition, improve the experiences for healthcare workers and providers. Continuous Quality Improvement and Practice Incentive Program Quality improvement are ways that this can occur. NQPHN has carried out extensive stakeholder consultation and engagement across the region during the initial needs assessment, service mapping, co-design, and planning workshops for MH and AOD in 2016 and early 2017. Over 600 people participated in these workshops, consultations and online community surveys, representing a cross-section of the footprint including the following:
- General Practice
- Non-Government Organisations (NGOs)
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Authorities
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Allied Health – Public and Private
- Queensland Health
- NQPHN Clinical Council
- Consumers
In 2018, Northern Queensland PHN identified Continuous Quality Improvement(CQI) as a key strategic objective for healthcare practices in the region. Rolled out a training suite for CQI to implement High Performing Primary Care in the area. This activity will extend beyond this to inform participants in key areas of CQI, Accreditation Standards, Population Health & Integrated Care ensuring high quality standards of care for their patients. In addition, provide targeted education programs for healthcare providers in identifying vulnerable and disadvantaged populations to ensuring recommended cycles of care are utilised to reduce the burden of disease for the patient and increase the business sustainability of the healthcare provider.
Duration: 6 hours
Presenters: Dr Paresh Dawda, Angelene True
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Reference contemporary content
Referenced needs assessment - CQI and PIP QI
NQPHN Event Evaluation Form
Statement of Attendance - HPPC Topic 2
NQPHN Health Needs Assessment HNA 2019-2022
NQPHN HNA Core 2017-18