Medical Executive Directorate
The Medical Executvie Directorate is an SESLHD Directorate that was established in mid-2015.
The role of the Directorate in SESLHD is:
- To be the voice of Medical Staff at the facility level to drive and help to implement quality and improvement across the district
- To lead the medical governance mechanisms for clinical quality
- To engage Medical Staff to collaborage with organisational effforts to improve patient safety and quality of care
- To improve the appropriateness of clinical services
- To ensure that junior doctors are engaged in all aspects of quality improvement and LHD clinical policy
- To govern district wide committees and processes, including:
- SESLHD Clinical and Quality Council
- SESLHD Clinical Stream Advisory Committee
- Drug and Quality Use of Medicines
- JMO Leadership Committees
- Medical Imaging Governance Committee
- Clinical Innovation & Research Translation (CIRT)
- District Forms Committee
- New Interventions Assessment Process (NIAP)
- Health Records and Medicolegal Committee
- Recruitment and local recruitment policy for all medical staff, including the Senior Medical and Dental Officer Appointment Advisory Committee (MDAAC)
