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Pre‐hospital and retrieval medicine: Clinical governance and workforce models
Author(s) -
Kennedy Marcus,
Elcock Mark,
Ellis Daniel,
Tall Gary
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
emergency medicine australasia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1742-6723
pISSN - 1742-6731
DOI - 10.1111/1742-6723.12776
Subject(s) - medicine , workforce , scope (computer science) , clinical governance , perspective (graphical) , corporate governance , scope of practice , health care , healthcare system , nursing , medical education , management , artificial intelligence , computer science , economics , programming language , economic growth
Pre‐hospital and retrieval medicine ( PHARM ) has developed significantly in the past decade. This perspective article proposes that PHARM should develop with a clear focus on contemporary health governance principles, and that its workforce and models of care adopt modern interdisciplinary approaches. Many of the older systems of managing clinical standards, and outdated cultural approaches to professional ‘turf’, workforce and scope of practice have little place in high‐performance organisations. This paper calls us to attention with a recommendation that best and safest systems of care, structured to optimise patient outcomes and system performance should be our goal.