Our role

We review clinical incident reports involving children and young people across Queensland’s public hospitals and health facilities.

A clinical incident is an unexpected event during health care which causes or may cause unintended harm to a patient. We review Queensland incidents with a severity assessment code 1 (SAC 1). These are incidents involving likely permanent harm or death.

When a SAC 1 clinical incident happens, the hospital or health service does a review to identify what caused it. They also make recommendations to stop it happening again. The reviews include formal clinical incident reports and root cause analysis. We review these reports and coronial findings using a multi-incident analysis method to help:

identify common themes and contributing factors
reduce the risk of clinical incidents
make recommendations to improve the safety and quality of healthcare across Queensland.

Our Leadership

Dr Clare Thomas, Co-Chair
Dr Ben Lawton, Co-Chair

Members and meetings

Our council members include health professionals across Queensland with expertise in:

paediatrics and medical specialties
nursing
patient safety
human and systems factors
surgery
retrieval services
rural and remote services.

We have monthly meetings to review clinical incidents and identify opportunities for improving the quality and safety of health care.

Subcommittee members

Dr Clare Thomas (Co-chair)
Dr Ben Lawton (Co-chair)
Dr Ben Beckwith
Dr Brett Hoggard
Dr Christopher Edwards
Professor Craig McBride
Dr Emily Moody
Dr Julie McEniery
Dr Lauren Kromoloff
Professor Marcus Watson
Margaret Ann Knowles
Dr Mark Coulthard
Naomi Flenady
Nicola Sanders
Sarah Busuttil
Dr Maree Crawford
Andrea Hetherington
Tammy Doyle
Dr Toni Weller
Samantha Tenison-Woods
Dr Chathu Herath
Dr Julia Wills
Dr Samantha Fairless
Dr Paula Lister
Dr Siobhan O’Sullivan

Other committees and groups

Contact us

If you have any questions about our work or projects email us at QPQC@health.qld.gov.au.