Introduction: Clinical champions are identified in the Australian Organ and Tissue Authority’s (OTA) Clinical Practice Improvement Program (CPIP) as critical to removing barriers and normalising donation within hospitals.
Donatelife Tasmania (DLT) formalised and implemented their jurisdictional Clinical Champions Program with a Clinical Champion Framework in 2021.  This framework consists of three distinct phases relating to recruitment, induction and action.
Objective: To further develop Phase 3 (action) of the Clinical Champions Framework, transitioning to collaborative engagement between the statewide clinical champions and the DLT hospital clinical engagement portfolio to continue to improve organ and tissue donation outcomes.
Method:

• In 2024, DLT held the inaugural statewide clinical champions workshop, to shift focus for the core group of engaged clinical champions by motivating and empowering them to identify localised activities and develop plans.
• Transitioned clinical champion activities to the DLT clinical engagement portfolio group (representative of intensive care, emergency department, theatre and neonatal intensive care units statewide)
• Evaluation of the clinical champion framework.

Results:

• Unit work plans have been developed and during 2025 education, collaboration and support will be the program focus to enable clinical champions clinicians to implement their identified activities.
• Evaluation through regular pulse surveys aims to measure ongoing engagement, barriers and influences impacting organ and tissue donation culture, as well as support retention goals.
• In collaboration with the DLT data and audit portfolio and the clinical engagement group, ongoing information sharing through the MS Teams platform will focus on improved reporting of key metrics applicable to individual units and will enable greater awareness of hospital performance.
• Continued statewide education sessions to maintain connection and empower collaboration between hospitals and units across Tasmania

Conclusion: Bringing clinical champions together has been the overwhelming factor in bridging gaps, breaking down barriers and building capacity in the promotion of positive organ donation culture across Tasmanian hospitals.