The Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research – Eastern Health leads collaborative research to optimise safety, quality, and experience of care for clinicians, patients and carers. The Deakin University – Eastern Health partnership was established in 1999. Our research spans acute, subacute, community, and residential care settings; fosters collaboration across health disciplines, and with patients and carers; and connects research with education, clinical practice and policy.
The Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research – Eastern Health is a satellite centre of Deakin University’s Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research that has Chairs in Nursing and research teams at Alfred Health, Barwon Health, Monash Health, Epworth HealthCare and Western Health.
The Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research – Eastern Health is led by Professor Julie Considine AO and supported by a team of skilled researchers. Our team works closely with researchers, clinicians, managers, research students, patients, and carers from a range of disciplines and backgrounds.
Our work is organised into three pillars of research: patient safety, patient experience and health workforce. Through partnership and co-design with clinicians and consumers, our researchers specialise in developing, testing, and implementing evidence-based solutions to optimise patient and carer safety; clinician knowledge, skills and decision-making; and models of care delivery.
The research activities of the Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research – Eastern Health
- span acute, subacute, community and residential care settings,
- inform strategic directions for clinical practice, education, research and healthcare policy development,
- build research capacity including providing support to nurses and midwives undertaking local research studies and research supervision for Bachelor of Nursing (Honours), Masters and PhD candidates.
For more information and examples of current projects, please visit Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research – Eastern Health
Director
Professor Julie Considine AO, Chair in Nursing (Eastern Health) [email protected]
Research Fellows
Dr Olumuyiwa Omonaiye
Dr Nantanit (Rainie) van Gulik
Ms Penny Casey
Centre Associates
Mr John Menzies