Top Tips for Safe Health Care

St Andrew’s Hospital endorses the Top Tips for Safe Health Care summary provided by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare (ACSQHC). This summary has been produced by the Australian Commission for Safety and Quality in Health Care to improve the safety of healthcare in Australia. These tips can help you to become more active in your healthcare. A consumer guide is available to all patients, consumers, families and carers and can be accessed via the ACSQHC website: Top Tips for Safe Health Care.pdf

Ask questions

You have the right to ask questions about your care.

Find good information

Not all information is reliable. Ask your doctor for guidance.

Understand the risks and benefits

Find out about your tests and treatments before they happen.

List all your medicines

Ask your doctor or pharmacists if you need more information about the medicines you are taking.

Confirm details or your operation beforehand

Ask to be told who will be doing your procedure and what will happen to you.

Ask about your care after leaving hospital

Ask for a written outline of your treatment and what should happen after you get home.

Know your rights

You have a number of rights as a patient. Click here for more information.

Understand privacy

Your medical information is confidential. You can ask to see your medical record. Click here for more information.

Give feedback

Feedback helps health professionals spot when improvements can be made. Click here to provide your feedback.

About

St Andrew’s Hospital has provided medical and surgical excellence to South Australians for over 80 years. This section features a little about where we’ve come from and where we are going.

St Andrew's Hospital provides a comprehensive range of clinical services.

Our aim is to provide a diverse range of clinical services and to be the best at what we provide. Selection of new clinical services is determined by patient needs, our expertise and financial influences.

Patients & Visitors

The team at St Andrew’s will make every effort to ensure your admission, stay and discharge is as simple and pleasant as possible. We’ve included some tips on what to bring, how you can keep in touch with your friends and where they can park when visiting you.

Specialists

St Andrew's Hospital nurses have long had a reputation for being highly skilled and dedicated. It's one of the hospital's points of distinction. Adelaide's leading doctors tell us it's one of the main reasons they choose to work at St Andrew's.

Careers

With a culture where relationships matter, we are focused on delivering quality health care and exemplary customer service.

Foundation

Our Foundation receives invaluable support from grateful patients, their families and friends, as well as the wider community. They provide St Andrew's Hospital with more opportunities to deliver world-class patient care, clinical education and research.

Top Tips for Safe Health Care