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    Clinical risk management aims to minimize harm to patients by identifying risks, understanding contributing factors, learning from adverse events, ensuring actions are taken to prevent recurrence, and establishing systems to reduce risks. It is part of good clinical governance and the Western Australian Department of Health requires local implementation and review of clinical risk management systems to comply with its statutory responsibilities. The clinical risk management process involves five steps - establishing the context, risk assessment, risk treatment, risk communication, and risk monitoring and review. It is a systematic process to establish, implement, and review controls to address risks in clinical settings.

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    Clinical risk management aims to minimize harm to patients by identifying risks, understanding contributing factors, learning from adverse events, ensuring actions are taken to prevent recurrence, and establishing systems to reduce risks. It is part of good clinical governance and the Western Australian Department of Health requires local implementation and review of clinical risk management systems to comply with its statutory responsibilities. The clinical risk management process involves five steps - establishing the context, risk assessment, risk treatment, risk communication, and risk monitoring and review. It is a systematic process to establish, implement, and review controls to address risks in clinical settings.

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    Clinical risk management

    Clinical risk management is about minimising risks and harm to patients by:

    identifying what can and does go wrong during care


    understanding the factors that influence this
    learning lessons from adverse events and poor outcomes
    ensuring action is taken to prevent recurrence
    putting systems in place to reduce risks

    The Western Australian Department of Health has a statutory responsibility to protect the government and the general community from
    unnecessary costs and losses. This includes the human cost of adverse incidents. Clinical risk management is also part of a good clinical
    governance system through which organisations are accountable for continuously improving the quality of their services and safeguarding
    high standards of care.
    In complying with its statutory responsibility, other public sector governance requirements and relevant Policy Frameworks (Clinical
    Governance, Safety & Quality Policy Framework and Risk, Compliance & Audit Policy Framework), the Department of Health requires all
    health service providers to focus on local implementation and review of clinical risk management systems.
    All staff have a responsibility to understand and employ risk management in their day-to-day work to provide a safe and secure environment
    for patients, carers and staff. This should be an environment where there is transparent responsibility and accountability for identifying and
    managing risks, issues and opportunities so that excellence in clinical care may flourish.

    Clinical risk management process


    The systematic risk management process as outlined in the Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS ISO 31000:2018 Risk Management
    (PDF 267KB) (external site) should be used in clinical risk management practice. The process involves five steps and two overarching
    processes as shown in the diagram below.

    Read more about the process in the Clinical Risk Management Guidelines (PDF 721KB) which include examples to illustrate how to apply
    risk management in a clinical setting.
    A key part of the clinical risk management process is to establish, implement and review controls to address risks. Controls are policies,
    processes, checklists, actions and safeguards that are actually in place to address risks. Appendix D in the Clinical Risk Management
    Guidelines highlights examples of WA Health clinical controls against a range of clinical areas.

    Resources
    WA Health Clinical Risk Management Guidelines (PDF 721KB)
    Risk Assessment Tables for the WA Health System (PDF 259KB)
    WA Health Risk Management Policy
    Clinical Governance, Safety and Quality Policy Framework
    Risk, Compliance and Audit Policy Framework

    More information
    Patient Safety and Surveillance Unit
    Email: pssu@health.wa.gov.au

    Related links
    Clinical governance

    Patient safety surveillance


    Clinical incident management



    SAC 1 Clinical Incidents

    Clinical incident management policy


    Patient safety reporting


    Coronial Liaison Unit


    Review of death

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