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    Clinical risk management involves minimizing risks and harm to patients by identifying what can go wrong during care, understanding influencing 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 responsibilities, policies, and frameworks. The clinical risk management process outlined in an Australian/New Zealand risk management standard involves five steps and two overarching processes, with a key part being establishing, implementing, and reviewing controls to address risks.

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    Clinical risk management involves minimizing risks and harm to patients by identifying what can go wrong during care, understanding influencing 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 responsibilities, policies, and frameworks. The clinical risk management process outlined in an Australian/New Zealand risk management standard involves five steps and two overarching processes, with a key part being establishing, implementing, and reviewing controls to address risks.

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    Clinical risk management involves minimizing risks and harm to patients by identifying what can go wrong during care, understanding influencing 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 responsibilities, policies, and frameworks. The clinical risk management process outlined in an Australian/New Zealand risk management standard involves five steps and two overarching processes, with a key part being establishing, implementing, and reviewing controls to address risks.

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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: [email protected]

    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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