TRANSPARENCY is the aim of a new initiative from Portland District Health (PDH).
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Members of the public will be able to follow the progress of PDH key indicators through a newly installed quality community dashboard.
The dashboard will be set up on the PDH website.
PDH quality director Loren Drought said the dashboard would provide updated data on results the organisation is achieving in areas such as staff training, staff vaccination, cleaning audits and energy usage.
“It’s purely for the community to see what standards we are trying to achieve and whether we’re meeting our targets,” Ms Drought said.
“We want the community to let us know how they find the site, whether it’s easy to navigate, uses the right terminology and is easy to understand and whether there are other things they would like us to report on.
“We’re happy to look at information the community want us to report. It won’t work unless it meets the needs of the community.
“We aim to be transparent and acknowledge that at times processes and programs are not working as well as we would like.
“When this happens there is a commitment to look at what can be done to improve and get back on track.”
The PDH Quality Community Dashboard can be accessed by visiting the About Us section on the PDH website at http://bit.ly/PDHquality or via the PDH Facebook page.