About the CEC
At the Clinical Excellence Commission (CEC), we seek to make a positive difference to public health patients, staff, and their communities by equipping healthcare workers in NSW with the knowledge, tools, and resources they need to create a culture that ensures all patients across the state receive safe, high-quality care.
We are specialists in safety and partners in improvement. That means we work with entities across NSW Health to create positive safety cultures. Our focus includes policy development, workforce capability, and fostering safety cultures to improve clinical care across the state.
Established in 2004, the CEC is the primary entity in NSW Health for system-wide leadership in clinical governance and safety assurance.
We lead, actively monitor and drive health system safety and effective clinical governance by:
- Embedding and maturing a NSW health safety system model.
- Strategically partnering with NSW health entities, health consumers, citizens, academic institutions, and industry partners to foster safe care and reduce avoidable harm.
- Monitoring, predicting and responding to system patient safety issues, including the impact of emerging technologies and disciplines.
- Providing leadership of clinical governance systems, processes and functions across NSW Health organisations.
- Leading development and coproduction of evidence-based, statewide patient safety priority initiatives.
Read more about the CEC’s role in our Determination of Functions.