This presentation provides an overview of the content of the NSQHS Preventing and Controlling Infections Standard and the resources the Commission has developed to help health service organisations meet the requirements of the Standard. You can use it to help others in your organisation understand the importance of infection prevention and control for patient safety and for their safety.

This issue includes items on antimicrobial stewardship in private hospitals, patient safety, zero harm, burnout, emotional exhaustion, regulation, disability, mental health, peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVCs), continuous improvement, digital health and more.

This issue includes items on the consultation for the review of Aged Care Quality Standards, polypharmacy and deprescribing, nurse staffing, COVID-19 and more.

Also covered are the latest issues of the Journal of Patient Safety and BMJ Leader Quality & Safety and early online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the latest from the UK’s NICE and NIHR and the USA’s AHRQ.

This report describes findings from the My Health Record in emergency departments (EDs) project, which is the largest study of My Health Record use undertaken, covering almost 130,000 patients across four jurisdictions and involving more than 1,000 ED staff. The project’s aim was to establish enablers to regular use of the My Health Record system by ED clinicians.

This issue includes items on the  new Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation time series reports into opioid medicines dispensing and antipsychotic medicines dispensing, medicine safety in people with disability, deprescribing, burnout, imaging, surgical care, diagnostic uncertainty diagnostic excellence and more.

Also covered are the latest issue of BMJ Quality & Safety and the early online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the latest from the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ..

The quality statements for the Stillbirth Clinical Care Standard are based on best available evidence and guideline recommendations at the time of development. This summary describes the relevance of each evidence source to the quality statements.

This resource accompanies the Stillbirth Clinical Care Standard. It describes what the quality statements mean for healthcare services and the indicators provided to support local quality improvement activity.

This resource lists the ten quality statements in the Stillbirth Clinical Care Standard and describes what each statement means for clinicians involved in providing care to women who are pregnant or planning a pregnancy, from preconception to after stillbirth or other form of perinatal loss.