We know that at the moment a lot of valuable staff time is expended on manual reporting. This can lead to inconsistencies in data visualisation across the organisation, and also limit the available time for staff to use this data to develop actions to improve.

Over the past 8 months significant consultation and work has been undertaken to plan, develop and refine new dashboards to alleviate these issues. We have also upgraded to the latest, high-specification version of PowerBI to ensure that we have increased functionality and flexibility in how we can report.

13 new Western Health Dashboards are being initially released between 12-16 December to help consolidate, simplify, and visualise the reporting functionality through a new, improved Power BI Service. The 13 new dashboards are:

  1. Access & Flow overview
  2. Access & Flow – Emergency Department
  3. Quality & Safety – Clinical Incidents (Overview)
  4. Quality & Safety – Severe Incidents
  5. Quality & Safety – Overview
  6. Quality & Safety – Best Care (Person Centered Care)
  7. Quality & Safety – Best Care (Coordinated Care)
  8. Quality & Safety – Best Care (Right Care)
  9. Quality & Safety – Best Care (Safe Care)
  10. Quality & Safety – Medication safety (pictured right)
  11. Quality & Safety – Comprehensive Care – Nutrition
  12. Finance – NWAU reporting
  13. People & Culture – Employee Management & Development

There will be activities and sessions throughout the week to support the launch of the new dashboards, including 30 minute sessions for each new dashboard which is designed to introduce the dashboard purpose, undertake a ‘walk-through’ of the dashboard’s functionality and allow time for questions.

Additional dashboards are also in development and will be released and added to PowerBI once finalised. A total of 48 dashboards will be eventually released.

Published on 1 December 2022