The National Patient Safety Education Framework Project aims to:

• Identify the key skills, knowledge, behaviours and attitudes related to patient safety for all health care workers
• Develop a simple, flexible framework that will act as a benchmark for training, educating and assessing health care workers in patient safety
• Help make patient safety concepts easy for everyone to understand and apply
• Help ensure all workers in the health system are equally competent and supported in adopting a patient-centred approach to their work

The project is funded by the Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care. The work is being undertaken by a national consortium in consultation with health care workers, consumers and other stakeholders around Australia and is scheduled for completion in late 2004/early 2005.