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The Commission's User Guide for Reviewing Clinical Variation is now available in a new interactive online format, making it easier for health services to use data to support appropriate care and access practical case studies.

Two new reports from the Commission reveal a decline in dispensing of high-risk medicines over five years but continuing variation across the country.

World Patient Safety Day is an initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO). This day calls for global solidarity in the improvement of patient safety. 

Today is World Sepsis Day – an opportunity to unite globally in the fight against sepsis.

Australia’s first national care standard for low back pain is good news for the millions of people with this common health condition, with the health sector agreeing it’s time for change.

Read the Winter 2022 issue of Commission eNews.

Each year more than 8,700 Australians die from sepsis^[i], a condition that is triggered by an infection and can turn into a deadly disease if undetected.

Read the Autumn 2022 issue of Commission eNews.

The Commission has produced a new and improved resource: Online Escalation Mapping Template (EMT) for processes for recognising and responding to deterioration in a person’s mental state.

A new standard of care will help thousands of Australians at risk from long-term reliance on opioid analgesics following short-term use for acute pain in hospital.

Joint Statement from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission and the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission.

The Commission has released new Easy English resources on the Third and Fourth Degree Perineal Tears Clinical Care Standard.