Program
Our event program features the best Queensland projects and programs that demonstrate clear improvements and benefits to the health system, our staff, and most importantly, our patients.Clinical Excellence Showcase 2021’s program is jam-packed with improvement initiatives from across the state.
To learn more about each session and to view their video abstracts, simply click on the title of each presentation.
Day 1 - Tuesday 5 October
| 8.30 am | Registration | |
| PLENARY SESSION 1 | ||
| 9.00 am | Welcome to Country | |
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| 9.10 am | Official welcome - Adjunct Professor Shelley Nowlan, Acting Deputy Director-General Clinical Excellence Queensland | |
| 9.20 am | Keynote speaker - Professor Keith McNeil | |
| 10.15 am | Morning tea | |
| CONCURRENT SESSION 1 | ||
| Maintaining safe and high-quality care, systems and services during COVID-19 | Care on or closer to country | |
| 10.45 am | Ehealth MaskHelper Tool- a novel strategy using QnFIT testing to inform AI based facial recognition Townsville Hospital and Health Service |
Outreach Kidney Transplant Yarning Sessions for First Nations People of Qld Metro South Hospital and Health Service |
| 11.00 am | Food security and community action in the Maranoa Region South West Hospital and Health Service |
Waijungbah Jarjums Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service |
| 11.15 am | Aminoglycoside Desktop Calculator App Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service |
Providing haemodialysis in community during COVID-19: supporting the people of Yarrabah Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service |
| 11.30 am | Moving into an AMBIT based future with “wheel” changes Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Pre-surgery Health and Wellness Check Metro North Hospital and Health Service |
| 11.45 am | First Nations COVID-19 outreach and response Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service |
Sit, Talk and Yarn (STaY) - Suicide Prevention in Cherbourg Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service |
| 12.00 pm | WORKSHOP including session wrap up | WORKSHOP including session wrap up |
| 12.30 pm | Lunch | |
| CONCURRENT SESSION 2 | ||
| Research and innovation despite the pandemic | Keeping staff well as COVID changes our work and home lives | |
| 1.35 pm | Sepsis Algorithm Townsville Hospital and Health Service |
COVID-19 and the Cancer Care Workforce Metro North Hospital and Health Service |
| 1.50 pm | Music therapy: Innovation during COVID-19 Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service |
COVID-19 Home Visit Safety Optimisation Mater Health |
| 2.05 pm | A Discrete-Event, Simulated Social Agent-Based Network Transmission model for communicable diseases Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service |
Keeping you strong – A selfcare and wellbeing initiative Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service |
| 2.20 pm | Women's Business pathway Metro North Hospital and Health Service |
Maintaining Safe Endoscopy in a Global pandemic Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service |
| 2.35 pm | Harnessing the chaos of COVID-19 to advance research and innovation
Clinical Excellence Queensland |
Introducing the Ambassador Program to reduce violence in the healthcare setting Metro North Hospital and Health Service |
| 2.50 pm | Session wrap up | Session wrap up |
| 3.00 pm | Afternoon tea | |
| PLENARY SESSION 2 | ||
| 3.30 pm | University of Queensland vaccination team | |
| 4.20 pm | Wrap up day 1 | |
| 4.30 pm | Day one close | |
Day 2 - Wednesday 6 October
| 8.30 am | Registration | |
| PLENARY SESSION 3 | ||
| 9.00 am | Welcome | |
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| 9.05 am | 15 minutes with the Minister for Health and Ambulance Services, the Hon. Yvette D'ath | |
| 9.20 am | Keynote speaker - Dane Bird-Smith | |
| 9.50 am | Keynote speaker | |
| 10.15 am | Morning tea | |
| CONCURRENT SESSION 3 | ||
| Technology overcoming the tyranny of distance | Care through the eyes of consumers | |
| 10.45 am | Flushed! A statewide physiotherapy service for paediatric incontinence Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service |
Prisoner health consultation Health Consumers Queensland |
| 11.00 am | Allied Health TeleBurns Service Metro North Hospital and Health Service |
Surgical Prehabilitation: By the patients, For the patients Metro North Hospital and Health Service |
| 11.15 am | West Moreton Prison Health Service onsite X-ray service West Moreton Hospital and Health Service |
Death as a social event - Building a Compassionate Community in West Moreton West Moreton Hospital and Health Service |
| 11.30 am | VOICeD Bringing you care anywhere Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service |
Individualised ambulance plans for young people with functional neurological disorders Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service |
| 11.45 am | Drive-through prescription collection service Metro North Hospital and Health Service |
Happy Heart Clinic: Improving children's experiences of regular LA Bicillin injections in RHD Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service |
| 12.00 pm | WORKSHOP including session wrap up |
WORKSHOP including session wrap up New ways of engaging with consumers - from the kitchen table to virtual consultation (HCQ) |
| 12.30 pm | Lunch | |
| CONCURRENT SESSION 4 | ||
| Alternative models of care which improved patient outcomes | Maintaining safe and high-quality care, systems and services during COVID-19 | |
| 1.30 pm | Mental Health Endocrine Clinic Metro South Hospital and Health Service |
Healthy Kids Club: telehealth evaluation empowering children & families to tackle childhood obesity Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service |
| 1.45 pm | Denture hygiene in Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACFs) Wide Bay Hospital and Health Service |
COVID-19 Response Retrieval Service Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service |
| 2.00 pm | Hands on eyes on, Virtual theatre support Central Queensland Hospital and Health Service |
Hospital in the Home (HITH) North West Hospital and Health Service |
| 2.15 pm | TeleHandover patient centred approach for clinical handover Mackay Hospital and Health Service |
Responding to COVID-19—the experience of an adult cystic fibrosis centre Metro North Hospital and Health Service |
| 2.30 pm | The Respiratory Acute Discharge (RADS) – benefits during COVID Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service |
Deadly Ears: delivering remote healthcare during lockdown Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service |
| 2.45 pm | Afternoon tea | |
| PLENARY SESSION 2 | ||
| 3.15 pm | GREAT DEBATE Did COVID-19 provide the ‘re-set’ our health system has been crying out for? |
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| 4.00 pm | Award presentation and showcase close - Adjunct Professor Shelley Nowlan, Acting Deputy Director-General Clinical Excellence Queensland | |
| 4.15 pm | Event close | |