CEC Strategic Plan 2024-2027

21 August 2024

The purpose of the NSW public health system is to provide safe, high-quality, accessible, person-centred care.

The Clinical Excellence Commission (CEC) seeks to make a positive difference to patients, staff, and their communities by equipping healthcare workers with the knowledge, tools, and resources they need to create a culture that ensures patients receive safe, high-quality care.

The CEC's Strategic Plan 2024-2027 represents that commitment. The three-year plan has a clear goal to work with health services across the state to embed safety strategically across all areas of the NSW Health system. The plan also showcases the CEC's goals to:

  • strengthen its capacity to identify and respond to patient safety priorities
  • work across the system to identify opportunities, processes and functions aligned with the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards
  • continue to evaluate outcomes
  • appraise and prioritise CEC-led activities
  • identify opportunities for safety innovation.

It is part of the CEC's nine-year direction that aligns with the goals of NSW Future Health. That direction aims to:

  • embed and mature a safety system model
  • monitor, predict and respond to system patient safety issues
  • provide leadership for continuous improvement of clinical governance systems, processes and functions across NSW Health organisations
  • lead the development and co-production of evidence-based statewide patient safety priority improvements.

Listen to Chief Executive Michael Nicholl introduce the CEC's future roadmap.

Learn more about the CEC's Strategic Plan 2024-2027 and the CEC's nine-year direction, 2024-2033.