The Clinical Excellence Commission is made up of six business units that align with our strategy.
Patient Safety and Clinical Governance
- Strengthens clinical governance and patient safety across NSW.
- Provides guidance and oversight in areas such as incident management, accreditation, and infection prevention.
- Supports services to deliver safe, high-quality care.
Systems Safety Improvement
- Leads statewide programs to improve patient safety across all patient groups.
- Works with clinicians and leaders to review care, test solutions, and put evidence-based improvements into practice.
- Provides expert advice to help health services build safer, more reliable care.
Safety Foundations and Partnerships
- Builds partnerships to support safer care across NSW.
- Provides education, frameworks, and networks to help services embed the NSW Health Safety System Model.
- Works with clinicians, consumers, and partners to support learning and improvement.
Safety Strategy and Operations
- Leads strategy, governance, communications, and operations.
- Aligns priorities with the broader health system and oversees risk, compliance, and performance.
- Works with corporate partners to support strong leadership and effective operations across the organisation.
Therapeutics Safety
- Supports the safe and effective use of medicines, medical devices, and clinical products.
- Monitors risks, including supply issues, and works with partners such as the TGA, HealthShare and SPRU.
- Leads medication safety and manages the NSW Medicines Formulary.
Safety Intelligence and Data
- Supports the use of data to improve patient safety.
- Maintains systems and tools for reporting and analysis.
- Provides advice on data, reporting, and security to help services understand risks and take action.
In addition to our business units, the Aboriginal Safety team provides leadership and shares knowledge to support cultural safety across our work. This includes strengthening how the NSW Health system responds when harm occurs, embedding culturally safe practices in incident management and review, and supporting more consistent, respectful care for Aboriginal patients and families.